Your chess update for today

(Anticipated Blobophile response: "We don't care about stupid board games! Tell us who's going to win Michigan-Ohio State!")

Actual Blob response to the anticipated Blobophile response: Too bad. I'm going to give a chess update anyway. It won't take long.

That's because reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and mega-talented American challenger Fabiano Caruana remain -- Yes! You guessed it! -- tied after eight games of the 12-game world championship. Apparently Caruana could have taken control with some bold moves in a couple of games, but didn't. So there you are.

I predict the whole deal goes to a tiebreaker in which the two players are allowed only a rook, a knight and a queen, and Carlsen performs some sort of magic rook/knight-y thing and wins when Caruana goes for it on fourth-and-2 and doesn't make it.

Or, you know, something like that.

Stay tuned!

(Anticipated Blobophile response: "No!")