The world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has drawn an unprecedented game where he played against more than 143,000 players from around the world.The event set a new record for someone facing the biggest number of opponents in an online chess match.Draws aren’t always sources of pride, but in this case, the 143,000 people who forced a draw in an online freestyle match from world No 1 Carlsen can be pleased with the result.Dubbed Magnus vs The World, the game hosted by Chess.com started 46 days ago, on April 4, and concluded 32 moves later.The website stated Carlsen, 34, would almost definitely beat the World and by a wide margin. He is the world’s top-ranked player in history and has won five World Championships.But Team World forced a draw by checking Carlsen’s king and repeating the position three times, called a “threefold repetition”.Anyone could sign up and vote on each move for Team World, with the highest-voted move being executed. Carlsen made the first move, playing as the white pieces, and each side had 24 hours to respond.Carlsen said in a statement: “Overall, ‘the world’ has played very, very sound chess from the start. Maybe not going for most enterprising options, but kind of keeping it more in vein with normal chess, which isn’t always the best strategy, but it worked out well this time.”The Norwegian can have pride in smashing the record for facing the biggest number of opponents in an online chess match, generating great interest to double the previous landmark.It was a chess freestyle (chess960) format, in which the bishops, knights, rooks, queen, and king have randomised starting positions behind the pawns, which remain in their usual spots.The first online chess game between a grandmaster and the world happened in 1999 when former World Champion Garry Kasparov beat more than 50,000 players after four months, calling it “the greatest game in the history of chess.”Celebrating that game’s 25th anniversary last year, chess.com hosted 70,00