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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the most iconic football players of all time, are staring in Louis Vuitton’s latest campaign, and they appear to play a real position of chess!
“Victory is a State of Mind,” writes Louis Vuitton alongside the photo by the legendary celebrity portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which Messi and Ronaldo are playing chess on a checkered Louis Vuitton suitcase. The photo was posted on social media a day before the opening of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and chess fans picked up real quick that their position is actually from a real game!
As it turns out, the position on the board was from the game Carlsen-Nakamura, Norway Chess 2017. It was GM Magnus Carlsen’s second GM Peter Heine Nielsen who first pointed that out on Twitter, and then Carlsen commented on that tweet and the photo: “Second greatest rivalry of our time mimicking the greatest.”
“The original is from my game with Nakamura in Norway Chess 2017, a very tumultuous event for me. I ended up with minus one, and at several points during the tournament, I was in risk of dropping to number two or three or even four in the world. It was tough!” Carlsen commented on the photo.
Meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot gives us more footage on the making of this atmospherical photo and as it seems the football stars were photographed separately.
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