Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo rocked the internet after simultaneously posting a picture of them playing chess together, and a detail spotted by the champions’ coach Magnus Carlsen shows just how carefully the scene was staged.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, draw

Peter Heine Nielsen posted on Twitter an image from the match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, where the figures are positioned exactly as in the photo published by the two legendary football players. The match from November 2017 ended in a draw.

While fans wonder who TSOZA is, it seems that Messi and Ronaldo wanted to give an answer through the Louis Vuitton campaign: they are just as good.

“I think I saw it on social media. This is from a photo with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. But the original is from Nakamura’s 2017 match. I didn’t understand it at first. I saw Peter Heine’s tweet and got in touch after that” – Magnus Carlsen5-time world champion and, according to many, the greatest player in the history of chess.

The photo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing chess is the fourth most liked in Instagram history

The photo, published simultaneously by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, is the fourth most popular in the history of Instagram.

This garnered 30.1 million likes on the Portuguese’s account and 23.9 million likes on the Argentine’s profile.

The most popular images in the history of Instagram

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2. The photo in which Cristiano Ronaldo announced that Georgina Rodriguez is pregnant with twins – 32.6 million likes

3. The last photo posted by the rapper XXXTentacion before his death – 30.2 million likes

4. Photo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing chess together – 30.1 million likes

5. The published photo of Ariana Grande from the wedding with Dalton Gomez – 26.3 million likes.

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