![]() ![]() FULLER Grandmasters dispute Niemann cheating claims Magnus Carlsen considers his next move against Niemann during the disputed game. The only argument offered by the Norwegian to support his accusation is very subjective: that Niemann was too relaxed at such a critical moment. On the other hand, several top players including Fabiano Caruana, who was runner-up to Carlsen at the 2018 World Chess Championship, have said that there was “nothing strange” about the contest or the Sinquefield Cup tournament as a whole, other than Niemann initially catching Carlsen off-guard with his meticulous preparation. No elite grandmaster has provided any form of solid evidence that Niemann cheated over the table during his match against Carlsen, who had not been beaten in 53 games before losing to the American teenager. A few days ago, the website said that grandmaster Max Dlugy, at whose academy Niemann was a student, had also cheated on the platform. However, the latest report is not the first that has issued in relation to the Niemann case. said in its report that it did not share “any list of cheats or the algorithm used to detect them” with Carlsen. In a statement on social media, Carlsen accused Niemann of further infractions: “I believe that Niemann has cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted,” the grandmaster said, without revealing how he came by this knowledge. Now, following Carlsen’s accusation, it has completely altered its criteria, arguing that Niemann published parts of the correspondence between the two parties a few weeks ago after the platform took the decision to expel him over multiple cases of cheating. Hikaru Nakamura: Meet the world’s wealthiest chess playerĬ says that its lengthy list of chess cheats includes dozens of grandmasters “and four of the best 100 players in the world, who have admitted it.” The website, which is used by many of the world’s finest players, has always operated a policy of complete discretion when uncovering cases of cheating, as it did in 2020 in another case involving Niemann. ![]() also accuses Niemann of being 17 on the final occasion he cheated in a game, when he allegedly used a second screen on his computer to consult a chess program capable of calculating millions of moves per second. The report places the number of games in question at over 100, some of which were played at tournaments with cash prizes, and even provided a detailed table listing each tournament in which the website claims Niemann committed the infractions. A few days later, in an emotional interview with Chess24 (one of the companies owned by the Play Magnus group), Niemann admitted that he had employed unsportsmanlike methods to win games between the ages of 12 and 16, without specifying how many and stressing that none of them were competitive contests. , which claims to have more than 90 million users, is in the process of acquiring Play Magnus, a web portal group whose majority shareholder is Carlsen, for $83 million.Ĭarlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup, the first time he had ever done so, and insinuated without providing any evidence that Niemann had beaten him by cheating. American chess prodigy Hans Niemann cheated during more than 100 games conducted over the internet between the ages of 12 and 17, according to a 72-page report from provided to the Wall Street Journal a month after Niemann beat the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, in a face-to-face game on September 4 at the Sinquefield Cup in St.
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