Chess Grandmaster Levon Aronian reacted to a post on X by arbiter Chris Bird following Magnus Carlsen slamming the table after losing to India's Arjun Erigaisi at the World Blitz Championship. Bird had written, "No pieces, chessboards or tables were harmed during the filming of this video." Aronian replied, "Chris, I don't think we should be normalising tantrums like that."