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The Greatest Cheating Scandal in History: Is Chess Itself Checkmated?
Hans Niemann’s Meteoric Rise in Rating and the US Championship
The above photo is currently on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Niemann
However, Wikipedia has a warning on it when I clicked on the download button. They are considering deleting it. Why? It’s because of the scandal going on it the chess world.
Hans Niemann has admitted to cheating in online tournaments when he was 12 and 16, but he claims never to have cheated in any tournament fro prize money. Chess.com just released a 72 page report detailing their findings on Hans Niemann’s online events. They don’t have conclusive evidence, but they have found it “very improbable” that he should have performed this well. Here’s a link to their report:
What prompted all this? At a very recent tournament called the Sinquefield Cup, the round 3 game between Magnus Carlsen (who played White) versus Hans Niemann (who played Black) was won by Hans Niemann. Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the…
