The withdrawal of reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen from the Sinquefield Cup pro tournament in St. Louis, Missouri this month sent shockwaves of suspicion and paranoia through the chess ...

In the eyes of the world's top chess player, 19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is a cheater. The world's top chess website apparently agrees. An investigation conducted by Chess.com into the ...

In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against the Swedish chess master and popular ...

The American teen chess sensation at the forefront of a cheating scandal in the sport was accused of cheating dozens of more times than he previously admitted. Hans Niemann had been accused in recent ...

In the past month, 19-year-old Hans Niemann has emerged as the most-talked-about American chess player since Bobby Fischer. Found several years ago to be cheating in multiple online games by Chess.com ...

As computers have surpassed human players, chess cheaters have increasingly relied on engines to gain an edge, both online and during in-person play. (Regan estimates that the rate of “substantial” ...

Embattled 19-year-old American chess player Hans Moke Niemann has made his next move in the ongoing cheating allegation scandal. Niemann has filed a federal lawsuit against champion player Magnus ...

In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has transformed the way humans play the game, and not always for the ...

As much attention as this most recent scandal has received, chess cheaters have long used elaborate technology-assisted techniques to win games. Reading time 2 minutes The chess world remains aflame ...

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Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann, who is at the center of a cheating scandal, has now filed a $100 million lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen and others for defamation. One of the defendants ...

As chess champion Magnus Carlsen accuses an American grandmaster, coaches are trying to develop a virtuous love of the game in young players. A couple of weeks ago, my pastor’s nine-year-old son, who ...