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In October 2022, Niemann filed a lawsuit against Carlsen, his company Play Magnus Group, Chess.com, Chess.com's Chief Chess Officer Daniel Rensch, and the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura for defamation and unlawful collusion. The complaint contained allegations that statements in the Chess.com report had falsely accused Niemann of a more extensive ...
However, a 72-page report by Chess.com – one of the sport’s most popular websites – later alleged Niemann “likely cheated” in more than 100 online matches between July 2015 and August ...
Cheating has been observed at the master level. Of the 550,000 account closures for cheating conducted by Chess.com up to 2022, 550 were on accounts verified to be owned by titled players. [8] 165 out of the roughly 1 million accounts closed by Chess.com for cheating in 2023 were titled; of these, 20 were grandmaster accounts. [4]
A cheating scandal involving five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and US grandmaster Hans Niemann that has gripped the sport looks to have finally reached a conclusion following the ...
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[8] [150] Chess.com's chief chess officer, Danny Rensch, confirmed that Niemann would remain suspended pending an explanation of his past cheating on the platform. [ 145 ] [ 152 ] A statistical analysis of Niemann's games since 2020 performed by anti-cheating expert Ken Regan that included the Sinquefield Cup game between Carlsen and Niemann ...
The world's No. 1 chess player, Magnus Carlsen, has accused a 19-year-old opponent of cheating and refused to face him in top tournaments. What we know: How a cheating scandal has rocked the world ...
On October 1, 2020, Wesley So accused Tigran L Petrosian (coincidentally, Nigalidze's opponent during the latter's 2015 incident), of cheating in his semi-final and final games during the Chess.com 2020 PRO Chess League. So was rated the eighth-highest player in the world at the time. Petrosian responded to So on Twitter with childish taunts. [60]