Elite chess has added a new scandal in the last few hours after the great American master hans niemann was accused from the Chess.com platform – one of the most used in the discipline – of cheats more than a hundred times.
It all started when the 19 year old American beat the Norwegian Magnus Carlson in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup. After that loss the king of chess he would have withdrawn from the demonstration sowing doubts about the “cleanliness” of the rival’s game.
After the face-to-face confrontation, the virtual chapter arrived with unusual versions in the media that they talked about alleged anal chips used by Niemann to cheat. It was two weeks ago when the Norwegian withdrew from an online match against the American after just two unexplained moves.
The aforementioned event occurred in the sixth round of the tournament Julius Baer Generation Cupwhich is played online, belongs to the Champions Tour and is organized by Chess24.com. The chaos was total and the snowball never stopped growing.
Niemann, 19, opened with a queen pawn (1.d4), Carlsen responded by bringing his knight to f6 and when white continued with 2.c4, the European resigned. And without saying a word, he turned off his computer camera, to the surprise of all who were watching the duel.
The Niemann Report
After the first accident Niemann confessed to having cheated in his childhood, when he was between 12 and 16 years old. However, the platform chess.com went out to cross it stating that the American cheated in “over a hundred games played” on that portal, even in some games with cash prizes.
The page report is called, which has more than 90 million users “Hans Niemann Report” and has 72 pages that include artifacts and appendices. It was originally published by the Wall Street Journal and is very detailed to what extent the young Grandmaster cheated in online games and why he was banned from World Chess Championship.
Interestingly, the company that produced this report is in talks to buy it Play Magnus Group. The Norwegian’s club claims that they have not received any pressure from the world champion and have not anticipated any of his decisions. However, up to this point, he has to take everything with a grain of salt.
The portal, which claims to have 90 million users, uses different methods to detect illegal outside help in its games, analyzing, among other things, the coincidences of the movements made by a player with those recommended by the computer modules, currently unbeatable for any human being.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has, for its part, opened an investigation, by a jury of three experts, into the controversy raised by the accusations of Magnus Carlsen against Niemann. The FIDE Fair Play Commission, chaired by Lithuanian Salomeja Zaksaite, has decided to act ex officio in the case, which has sparked great controversy in the world of chess and its investigation should be concluded within three months.
“The Hans Niemann Report” focuses on the sudden rise of the young American in online gameswhere most of the 19-year-old grandmaster’s deceptions would be. chess.com claims that Niemann’s rise to face-to-face play is “the fastest in history”. And that he has no evidence of cheating in direct confrontations.
The theory of the anal grip
A very popular theory on social networks, also supported by Elon Musk, is that Niemann used anal plugs, a wireless device that It would allow him to receive the movements to be made through vibrations in Morse code. Another suggestion is that he may somehow have learned the strategy prepared by Carlsen and his team in advance.
The tournament organization strengthened security and began screening players before matches with an RF scanner. And he also stopped broadcasting the matches live and started broadcasting them with a delayed 15 minutes.
The trap and the stream
It is not the first time that Niemann has been involved in a scandal. “I cheated in random games on Chess.com. I confronted myself. I confessed it. It was the biggest mistake of my life and I am completely ashamed of it. I tell the world this because I don’t want confusion or rumors. I have never cheated. in a game on the scoreboard “, he assured.
And he explained: “When I was 12, a friend helped me in an online tournament. At 16 I was living alone in New York during the pandemic and I was willing to do anything to grow my flow. I am very, very sorry. I know my actions have consequences and I have suffered them. During that time, I gave up a very profitable streaming career, stopped playing all events, and lost many friends and intimate relationships. I decided that the only way to remedy my mistake was to show that I could win the events on the scoreboard. And this was my mission. Everything I have done in the past few years is to make up for that mistake and I hope my results, commitment and hard work have shown that I have learned my lesson. “
The abandonment after just two moves after which the Norwegian Carlsen was called to silence and did not even send a message on the networks did nothing but throw more fuel on the fire and increase a controversy that seems far from over.
Source: Clarin
