Chess Cheating Scandal

         During a chess tournament that happened not so long ago, Magnus's Carlsen and Hans's Moke Niemann game resulted in Magnus's Carlsen loss. Outraged 31-year-old left the tournament in full belief of his opponent cheating. A month before the tournament, these two players found themselves playing chess on sandy bitches of Miami. According to Magnus Carlsen both in the match on the beach and in the previous games on lately popular chess internet platform - "chess.com", Niemann didn't show a skill level required to beat Carlsen in a chess competition. Niemann filed a 100 million dollar federal lawsuit against Carlsen, chess.com and other chess players for "slander, libel and colluding to blacklist him", but according to Craig Reiser, Carlsen’s lawyer it's "nothing more than an attempt to deflect blame onto others". There is no clear evidence that Niemann cheated on the highly anticipated chess tournament, but the 19-year-old American grandmaster claimed himself in the past, that he had cheated numerous times on previously mentioned sited - "Chess.com". Adding up his previous acts of cheating, and high skill gap between two games in a period of a month, Niemann is currently viewed as a fraud by a large amount of people.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-scandal-hans-niemann-magnus-carlsen-ticking-time-bomb-11666383309?mod=trending_now_news_4

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  1. englishdiaryOctober 26, 2022 at 12:18 PM

    I wonder how the cheating is actually done during the game. Do they have a computer under the desk? ;)

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