I completely agree with you. I see lots of people here trying to romanticise this into some spectacularly complex reasoning to make this a GM only move, but in

I completely agree with you. I see lots of people here trying to romanticise this into some spectacularly complex reasoning to make this a GM only move, but in reality I'm 99% sure they were just trolling. They were both laughing like hell when they were playing and they both had nothing to lose. Hikaru had been playing that move a lot recently for content in his media channels, Magnus being the cool guy that he is, played that move against him for lulz. In the end, they both had fun, the viewers had fun and new funny article and videos were created about this game. People: it's just for fun, not everything needs to be a classical serious thing all the time. Just sit back and take some hits from the good ol bongcloud.