Magnus Carlsen, chess grandmaster, clashed with 143,000 global opponents online as “Magnus vs. The World” ended in a perfectly bizarre draw. The 34-year-old Norwegian and chess.com’s massive team traded moves for more than six weeks; Carlsen admitted, “they haven’t given me a single chance.”

A chess grandmaster dueling a virtual army sounds outlandish, yet Carlsen’s 143,000 challengers coordinated each move by popular vote. This viral chess.com match drew swarms of fans searching for “online chess challenge.” Carlsen, famous for solo mastery, faced a democracy of pawns—proof that crowd-sourced logic can stall a legend, one collective stalemate at a time.

Carlsen’s match lasted over six weeks, with each side allotted 24 hours per move—setting a new benchmark for the world’s largest, slowest draw.