The great chess master hans niemann He received a thorough security check this Friday: his anus was scanned at the entrance to the United States Chess Championship. This comes days after being accused of using a anal chip or prostate massager cheat in their games.
The security guards of the event scanned him with a metal detector – like all the people who tried to enter the premises – but with him they were much more scrupulous: they passed the scanner all over his back and near his buttocks to try to detect some device for cheating.
This happened at the door of the Saint Louis Chess Club, where the championship started on Tuesday.
Chess.com opened an investigation on Tuesday against the 19-year-old maestro claiming he “probably cheated” in more than 100 online games. Niemann denies deception in general and the use of a sex toy in particular. After a big win in the first round, he said: “I’m not going to back down and I’ll play my best chess here, no matter the pressure I’m under.” He also said he would play naked if necessary.
Chronicle of a suspect
Suspicions of treason have hovered over the young American grandmaster Hans Niemann since his Sinquefield Cup third round victory over the chess king, Magnus Carlson. Following that head-to-head defeat, the world champion withdrew from the event, casting elliptical doubts about the “cleanliness” of his rival’s game. And it all went out of control when the Norwegian withdrew from an online match against Niemann after just two moves, without giving an explanation.
It was the sixth round of the Julius Baer Generation Cup tournament, which is played online, belongs to the Champions Tour and is organized by Chess24.com, company of which Carlsen is one of the largest shareholders.
19-year-old Niemann 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 watched the duel, which had aroused great anticipation among fans for what happened on September 5th in St. Louis, USA.
In the Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen had lost to White and the American cut him off from two years of unbeaten run and 53 fast-paced wins.
That triumph allowed Niemann to overcome the 2,700 ELO point barrier in the world rankings for the first time.
The day after the defeat, the Norwegian announced that he would be leaving the race. “I have retired from the tournament. I have always enjoyed playing at the St. Louis Chess Club and hope to return in the future,” he wrote on his Twitter account, where he has more than 740,000 followers.
The message hinted that there was something else behind it, because it was accompanied by an old video by José Mourinho, in which the Portuguese football manager said: “I’d rather not talk. If I talk, I’ll get in trouble. And I don’t. I want to be in big trouble. “
The Chess.com report
After the first accident Niemann confessed to having cheated in his childhood, when he was between 12 and 16 years old. However, the Chess.com platform came out to cross him claiming that the American cheated in “over a hundred games played” on that portal, including some games with cash prizes.
The page report, which has over 90 million users, is called “The Hans Niemann Report” and has 72 pages that include documentary evidence and appendices. Originally published by the Wall Street Journal, it details the extent to which the young grandmaster cheated in online games and why he was banned from the Global Chess Championship.
Interestingly, the company that produced this report is in talks to purchase Play Magnus Group. The Norwegian’s club claims that it has not received any pressure from the world champion and has 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 various methods to detect illegal external aid 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.
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 young American’s sudden rise in online gaming, where most of the 19-year-old master’s deceptions would be found. Chess.com claims that Niemann’s rise in live matches is “the fastest in history”. And that he has no evidence of cheating in direct confrontations.
Source: Clarin
