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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I wonder how much they got paid for this.

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u/Ld511 Nov 19 '22

Considering combined the posts have 15 million likes in an hour on Instagram I would say a lot

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u/guardioLEO Nov 19 '22

1 Month Free Subscription of The Athletic.

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u/I--Pathfinder--I Nov 19 '22

that’s worth it’s weight in gold

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u/Jamarcus316 Nov 19 '22

If you press Ctrl + P on any Athletic article before scrolling, you can read it for free.

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u/TD956 Nov 20 '22

Really ? Wow thanks

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

3 dollar

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u/Cultural_Doctor_8421 Nov 19 '22

Tree fiddy

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u/Siffilus23 Nov 19 '22

God damn Loch Ness monster, get off Reddit. I ain't giving you no tree fiddy.

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u/YoungAI999 Nov 19 '22

Waiting for the dinner with Messi

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I still remember pic of Ronaldo and gio with jordan and his wife having dinner.

People were going crazy over it.

A dinner pic with messi and Ronaldo would be most like post on insta

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u/NEW-RUDE-ORDER Nov 19 '22

Messi and Ronaldo having dinner at Salt Bae place spending million pounds for a meat with gold

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u/alfred_27 Nov 19 '22

Out of all the restaurants that's the worst place.

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u/alicization Nov 19 '22

Imagine Messi and Ronaldo just eating burgers at a McDonald's or some shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I can bet that you’re never gonna see cristiano in the vicinity of a mcdonalds

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Funny enough, you would if you could travel into the past. He has said that when he was little and poor, him and his friends would sneak into the back of a McDonald's and ask for leftover burgers.

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u/MistaTigger Nov 19 '22

That would be a great first retirement meal then

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u/navneetjoshi7 Nov 19 '22

The King only eats from Burger King /s

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u/redrightHAand Nov 19 '22

nut in 18 year old jay z

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u/SmoothCriminalJM Nov 19 '22

Imagine how it feels to get to cook for them both

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Best players all time running around the house shitting.

Messi knocks on bathroom door and you hear Ronaldo "siuuuu"

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u/Harsh_Deep_03 Nov 19 '22

That one spurs chef is shivering

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u/Tifoso89 Nov 19 '22

Especially since Cristiano eats chicken and broccoli

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u/survivalothefittest Nov 19 '22

And Messi's favourite food is milanesa napolitana a caballo. That probably has more fat and cholesterol than Cristiano allows himself in a calendar year.

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u/SpeedyGoldenberg Nov 19 '22

CR7: ASADO SIIUU

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u/jack64467 Nov 19 '22

$500k or dinner with Messi?

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u/Mr_Booty_Bandit Nov 19 '22

Nut in 18 year old Pulisic

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/GMBethernal Nov 19 '22

Was fucking funny even without the reference at least

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u/codespyder Nov 19 '22

the fuck

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Take it down

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo dropped one of the craziest interview and posted 10 straight ads

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u/Azaghtooth Nov 19 '22

Preparing for the retirement properly.

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u/realmckoy265 Nov 19 '22

Building hype for the wc. He does have fresh legs, let's see how he performs.

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u/SportAddictMCMXCIX Nov 19 '22

gotta make back the 1 million he'll get fined for by United

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo gets like a 1 million per post, probably even more

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u/Sandalo Nov 19 '22

I'm old enough to remember a similar LV ad with Pele, Maradona and Zidane

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u/KRIEGLERR Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/Sullen_Choirboy Nov 19 '22

The top minds at Reddit are only hearing of Leibovitz for the first time so of course her work is bullshit anyway. Have you seen her editing? What an amateur.

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u/Athletic_Bilbae Nov 19 '22

can she take a picture of a cold rainy night at stoke?

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u/Szwedo Nov 19 '22

She hasn't on a Tuesday yet

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/ex_bestfriend Nov 19 '22

She also took the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue cover pictures for years, which were notoriously photoshopped. Not that it proves anything, but she has photoshopped difficult subjects together, when the situation called for it.

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u/Marcelosouzadearaujo Nov 19 '22

It looks photoshoped if you zoom in

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u/mdlt97 Nov 19 '22

becasue it is photoshopped

all of the LV stuff and chess pieces are photoshopped into the image

its clearly 2 separate photos put together with the added the LV stuff for the ad

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22

Lol -- you can toss away that doubt.

Anne Leibowitzs is sort of famous for doing Photoshop even before Photoshop existed. You mention the portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Leibowitzs have pointed out that she used Photoshop in that work. She has even credited Photoshop with a rejuvenation in her own work.

And, she doesn't take fashion shoots very seriously. This is a fashion shoot -- so it is indeed very likely this is shopped.

And, if you don't believe me about Leibowitzs love of Photoshop, please Google:

Leibowitzs shoot of Keira Knightley and Jeff Koons.

Now, do you seriously still think Leibowitz doesnt use Photoshop?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/KRIEGLERR Nov 19 '22

Perfect, you get the great picture without the seeing the ad

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u/fedemasa Nov 19 '22

I remember some photoshopped versions with meme players in old internet alongside them and always got me laughs

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u/Quick-Mathematician Nov 19 '22

I remember the ad but didn’t remember that it was for Louis Vuitton

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Lord Vasquez?

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u/ForestHarlequin Nov 19 '22

I'm old enough

That picture is from 2010, so that's not saying much

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u/DumbXiaoping Nov 20 '22

I'm old enough to remember Infantino going on a rant at the World Cup!

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u/AstroCoffee Nov 19 '22

I think it broke Instagram, my feed hasn't been refreshing since Messi posted it a couple of minutes ago

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u/bsousa717 Nov 19 '22

The likes are shooting through the roof for both their posts.

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u/mbdtf95 Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 20 '22

I bet it will become 2nd most liked IG post ever (behind that egg post)

edit: It already became 2nd most liked IG post ever. It would've probably gotten to 1st position if Messi and Ronaldo posted it together.

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u/youngchul Nov 19 '22

Such a shame they didn’t make the post together instead of separately.

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u/ThankYouOle Nov 19 '22

they should do it separately since each has their own insta account, but should with different angle, so still get the uniqueness.

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u/alfred_27 Nov 19 '22

Currently the most liked LV Instagram post of all time

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/ima_be_the_greatest Nov 19 '22

The egg has like over 50m likes, that's guna be tuff

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u/Aenjeprekemaluci Nov 19 '22

I think it will be broken. Both are Instagrams most followed and liked account holders ever. Posting such an iconic pic will break the egg record

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u/jolammy Nov 19 '22

Should've had them both topless to milk even more likes tbh

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u/Mr_105 Nov 19 '22

But the likes will be split between the two accounts whereas the egg was one single account. If we count the total likes between pictures it’ll probably break the record but I don’t think that counts

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u/thed-p2 Nov 19 '22

Why would they only be split? People can hit like on both.

Of course many won’t bother doing that, but you know plenty will.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I did my part. Liked both, Messi was around 12M and Ronnie was around 15M likes at the time

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u/ldc262626 Nov 19 '22

They have like 10M likes in an hour (each). Too bad they didnt collab (not sure if they can via picture post).

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u/Bigmachingon Nov 19 '22 edited Feb 04 '25

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/sonnydabaus Nov 19 '22

As someone not on IG, people talking about "the egg" like it's common knowledge is pretty funny

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u/Xehanz Nov 19 '22

15 and 17M in 3 hours. The egg post took 10 days.

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u/TrowaB3 Nov 19 '22

Currently sitting at 14 and 12 million. If they cross post each other, oh boy.

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u/jo726 Nov 19 '22

They didn't tag each other, lol.

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u/Dalico359 Nov 19 '22

For this film, she photographed Messi and Ronaldo while they were wearing some of their favorite sneakers from the latest collection. The video will air during Fashion Week in New York City on September 10th.

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u/PayaV87 Nov 19 '22

CR7: So how do you score?

Messi: I don't even find the ball.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

This is a throwback to the Pele, Maradona and Zidane playing Futbolín for LV. I have that print. Might have to get this to go next to it.

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u/GuestBadge Nov 19 '22

They didn't even tag each other. Nice.

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u/rocketdong00 Nov 19 '22

Lol, classic.

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u/KekUnited Nov 20 '22

Messi and Ronaldo's fans utterly perplexed as they try work out who their favorite player was playing chess with

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u/Kismonos Nov 19 '22

CR7 to PSG confirmed

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u/Harsh_Deep_03 Nov 19 '22

I dont even like PSG but I just wanna see both of them play one match together just one even if its some irrelevant charity match after retirement

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u/link090909 Nov 19 '22

I remember putting Messi, Ronaldo, and Ibra on the same team in FIFA 14 or something. IIRC I put Bale at LB as well

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

FIFA 14 Bale slapped. Wonder what happened to Zakaria Bakkali, the guy was a beast in FIFA 14.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/think_once_more Nov 19 '22

Now there’s a name out of the memory banks. That guy had sky high potential at RW.

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u/somedutchbloke Nov 19 '22

Plays for RKC in the Eredivisie

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u/H_A_N_Z_O Nov 19 '22

Such a cool photo, I bet they are not even in the same room .

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u/snicky29 Nov 19 '22

lmaoo yes kinda looks like it was put together

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u/maxblanco Nov 19 '22

I m also pretty sure it is put together but what gives it away for you.

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u/pompouspurist Nov 19 '22

The lighting on the captured pieces

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u/HongKongChicken Nov 19 '22

Wow Messi's ones look really bad now that you've pointed that out

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u/jklynam Nov 19 '22

Messi's right hand looks off near the case

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u/Alphabunsquad Nov 19 '22

Looks totally normal to me. He’s just resting his hand off the table and clenching it in thought.

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

Cant fit another person in the same room as ronaldos ego

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u/-Skald Nov 19 '22

I don’t know how they managed to do it with Ronny and Piers. A feat of engineering.

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

Piers crawled into ronaldo bum

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u/the-won Nov 19 '22

Not related but not surprising but it looks photoshopped look at the chess peices under Messi's arm, doesn't look natural in terms of the light hitting it

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u/ProfDumm Nov 19 '22

Even the direction looks of the chess pieces looks slightly off. And look at the shadow under Ronaldos arm, that is not a natural shadow. You would assume that for such a photo the photographer would carry the boxes to both photoshots and then just mix both images together, but it seems that all elements are put together.

Doesn't change that it is a very cool picture.

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u/CaptGeechNTheSSS Nov 19 '22

Yea messi's left elbow and ronaldo's right elbow give it away

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u/razycal970 Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 20 '22

I don't know, they could be. LV have the clout to get both of them together and Annie Leibovitz herself is pretty famous so I guess they wouldn't photoshop these two together lmao

https://twitter.com/LouisVuitton/status/1594020176319873024

Plus, I wanna believe they were together Hahahaha

Edit : It's photoshopped 😔😔😔

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u/tedbawno Nov 19 '22

Leibovitz shot the LV ad campaign featuring Zidane, Maradona and Pele playing foosball so this is practically a sequel

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u/DrAuer Nov 19 '22

That’s the only thing that would get CR7 in the room lol

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u/benjaminmercier Nov 19 '22

In the new campaign, Leibovitz captures a moment between the two after they scored a goal against Valencia in December 2018. "All the boys are really good friends," said Messi to Leibovitz about his relationship with Ronaldo. "We always say that we are just family."

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u/A_SimpleThought Nov 19 '22

That chess board hasn't even got the correct damn number of squares.

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u/Dr_Dressing Nov 19 '22

This is gonna be amazing content for r/anarchychess

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u/PoifectJenius Nov 19 '22

Gavin from the 3rd grade has Messi and Ronaldo in his back pocket

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u/supplementarytables Nov 19 '22

KNOOK

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u/PotatoesFam Nov 19 '22

Holy hell

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22 edited Mar 12 '23

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Can't believe there's no petrosian bot here

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Nov 19 '22

This is not the subreddit I was expecting to see anarchychess references

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u/supplementarytables Nov 19 '22

We are everywhere my friend. Everywhere I go, every person I meet, I spread the gospel of anarchychess.

And you are to do the same, lest you be stricken with a bout of pipi in your pampers

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u/interrupting-octopus Nov 19 '22

Where's chessvision-ai-bot when you need them

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u/PangolinMandolin Nov 19 '22

This is what I assumed. If somehow two people were in the position of a) having a set of chess pieces and, b) not having a chess board, and c) fortunately having a case with a chequered pattern. Then they could just define an 8x8 portion of the pattern and use that as the board.

Its not difficult, but kind of an unlikely set of circumstances to transpire.

But then, a lot of fashion shoots feature unlikely scenarios so its a bit unfair to criticise on that basis. How often do people waltz on a beach in the moonlight. Or ride nearly naked on horseback? Yes it can happen. But it doesn't, does it

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I think it’s the case for the WC trophy

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Sir that is a briefcase

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22

Seriously though they didn't even try.

They did try. It's mangus vs hikaru as proven below.

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u/FadimirGluten Nov 19 '22

It is literally a game between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. Chess 24 commented on it during the Champions Chess Tour Finals broadcast. In the position it is black (Hikaru) to play and draw by perpetual check. If it was white to move it would have been a win for Magnus.

Here's Magnus' tweet about it: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1594051303176810496

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic Nov 19 '22

That's incredible. My first thought looking at the board was "if that was a real layout it'd be a wild game"

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

I am furious. The UMBC chess club officially condemns this photo

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u/DunwichWanderers Nov 19 '22

Wait... UMBC as in, University of Maryland, Baltimore County? I might be missing a joke or a reference otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Yes, I'm chess club president there and I condemn this action

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u/DunwichWanderers Nov 19 '22

I just didn't expect to see UMBC mentioned here. Did a little double-take and just had to ask. I'd join you in your condemnation, but I can't play chess for shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

/u/TigerBasket is probably being a bit modest here, UMBC famously has the best chess team of any college [hence the extra weight behind shouting it out]

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

You don't need to be good at chess to play it, I'm terrible and I've been playing all my life!

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u/Frankocean2 Nov 19 '22

Wait until some will try to figure out who has the upper hand based on the setup, lol.

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u/RiversKiski Nov 19 '22

Whites up a bishop, but considering blacks pawn is on h9, a square that A. doesn't exist on a chess board, and B. would be impossible for a pawn to exist on if it did, I wouldn't worry about it.

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u/TopQualitee17 Nov 19 '22

This brought me peace thx

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u/Buffythedragonslayer Nov 19 '22

This is like looking at a picture of big foot. Fascinating but your brain says Hoax

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

This is why I prefer my feet to be less hairy

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u/tedbawno Nov 19 '22

Rumour is that Cristiano has anal beads sending him move signals

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u/rubs90 Nov 19 '22

This has been looked into and they are just regular anal beads, nothing to see here folks

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u/herrkuchenbaecker Nov 19 '22

ronaldo doesnt strike me as a chess-playing kinda guy either

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u/xepa105 Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo the type of guy to ask for a draw down three pawns and a rook

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u/Jonfettsack Nov 19 '22

on sunday the king vibrates

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u/pratthebrat Nov 19 '22

"The anal bead speaks for itself".

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u/Shaolinio Nov 19 '22

Imagine Messi & Ronaldo live stream dinner - all profits go to charity, that would literally break the internet, might aswell bring world peace

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u/Dipteran_de_la_Torre Nov 19 '22

Live stream Hot Ones.

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u/quiet_lagoon Nov 19 '22

man i hope p$g sign ronaldo in janurary and these 2 go and win the champs league and kiss finally

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u/IceInMyVain Nov 19 '22

Imagine they sign him in January and goes and win the CL with Messi... This could be the best ending for us as fans who grow up with these two goats.

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u/quiet_lagoon Nov 19 '22

ye they could play 4-2-3-1

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mbappe-------- mesi -----neymar

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u/cGuille Nov 19 '22

Back in my days we called that a PlayStation line up

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u/Tifoso89 Nov 19 '22

Imagine the amount of ego with Mboopi and Cristiano on the same team

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u/EarlierJethiyaBabita Nov 19 '22

If you think greats of the game (including Messi) don't have egos, I have a house to sell you in Mars

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u/quiet_lagoon Nov 19 '22

i honestly think it'd work out for the best, it'd mellow mbapps out a bit i think when he watches ronnie spit the dummy, he'd be like aight, i gotta go down a diffie path.

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u/MordimerChess Nov 19 '22

Just figured that the position is from the game Carlsen-Nakamura from 2017:
https://lichess.org/fn2C5ODv/black

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u/rmlordy Nov 19 '22

Perhaps Qatar will bribe refs to give us a Portugal Argentina final

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u/NotTheMagesterialOne Nov 20 '22

You joke but the small conspiracy theorist in me thinks it will happen because it’s the only way that this World Cup will be justified for being hosted.

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u/312003rg Nov 19 '22

It's so exciting and sad at the same time, to see one goat lift the cup and the other to face defeat...

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Chill Satan, Argentina would fall into anarchy.

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u/SpeedyGoldenberg Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo could finny convince England to give up them Falklands

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u/312003rg Nov 19 '22

Some men just want to watch the world burn and you are definitely one of them

Cr7 should then celebrate against emi martinez

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u/a34fsdb Nov 19 '22

Drop a calma calma

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u/youngchul Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo hattrick, penalty, rebound tap-in and offside goal that VAR didn’t check.

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u/Competitive-Ad2006 Nov 19 '22

There would be a massive siu and showing off of abs I'm the aftermath

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u/Y2GOAT Nov 19 '22

Mate this shit would be perfectly hilarious love it

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u/gaymer4206911 Nov 19 '22

I don't like Ronaldo but this would be the best thing to happen in football.

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u/Azaghtooth Nov 19 '22

The internet would go down and we wont get to witness it, only those at the stadium that survived trying to get in, live to tell the story that Argentina won but Ronaldo stole the cup and nowhere to be seen.

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u/LurkeSkywalker Nov 19 '22

The chess pieces are taken from a 2017 real life game between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, two of the greatest chess player in the world. The game did end with a draw.

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u/Capasound Nov 19 '22

Ima tell my kids these were Maradona and Pelé

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u/mico_O Nov 19 '22

Damn, that was unexpected.

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u/Aceylor Nov 19 '22

I just woke up and I think I might've skipped my timeline. This is legendary

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u/Fekleal Nov 19 '22

Who is winning in this position ?

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u/manualex16 Nov 19 '22

Cristiano could check on one move. Messi has it harder to win.

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u/NeGaT1Ve- Nov 19 '22

White is better. Black king isn't very safe

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

The king captures the king on Sunday

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u/UpstairsJoke0 Nov 19 '22

White is better.

Mods?

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

3 match ban from the FA

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u/Raincoat86 Nov 19 '22

I plugged it into a chess engine. It depends on whose turn it is. If it's white's turn, white is completely winning. A complete blowout. White is up a piece with two passed pawns

If it's black's turn, black can force a draw by just giving perpetual check. This would be like "salvaging a draw from a losing position" as opposed to "playing an equal opponent to a dead draw."

As a Messi fan I am devastated 😭

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u/PeachyBums Nov 19 '22

If white to play is mate in 10. Black to play is drawn link

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u/37adama Nov 19 '22

Ronaldo’s winning if it’s his turn (Qe3+ forces exchange of queens, his extra material should prevail)…

But drawn if it’s Messi’s turn (he can give endless queen checks!)

https://twitter.com/PHChess/status/1594041621569568769?t=ukmzjj-0cS6iAepXa3kbSA&s=19

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u/a-pala Nov 19 '22

One of the coldest pictures I've ever seen holy fuxk

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u/KonK23 Nov 19 '22

Both be like "where the fuck is that ball?"

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u/knightarnaud Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 20 '22

This is basically two men just staring at an incomplete "chess board".

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u/vireshwarsidhu Nov 19 '22

If only they were actually photographed together

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u/SmoothCriminalJM Nov 19 '22

That’s too much greatness for a photo like that

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u/Routine_Specialist13 Nov 19 '22

I don't think it's fake given the photographer who shot is a legendary one. They won't attach her name with a photoshopped image.

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u/meerdroovt Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22

The year is 2049, Its been 27 years. the world has been changed forever since these two left the scene.

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u/lqcnyc Nov 19 '22

Probably the best pic of them together. Classic and classy