Page 14 - Sinquefield Cup News Today

By Jack Queen

In chess' cheating drama, lawyers for Magnus Carlsen and the chess.com company have called on US courts to dismiss Hans Niemann's claim for $100 million in damages with prejudice. They say Niemann should pay their costs.

The day before he beat the greatest chess player in the world, Hans Niemann was a curly-haired 19-year-old American known only to serious fans of the game and mostly as an abrasive jerk. Everyone, it seems, has a story. Like that time in June, when he’d lost in the finals of a tournament in Prague, then stood in the ballroom of the hotel where the event was held and ranted against the city and the accommodations.

The ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect addition to the ChessBase Magazine and keeps you informed about everything that happens in tournament chess. The current issue - CBM Extra #210 - contains training videos with Robert Ris and Mihail Marin (total playing time: just under 1 hour) and 38 deep and comprehensive analyses by Anish Giri, Romain Edouard, Lubomir Ftacnik, Michal Krasenkow, and many others.

Cheating in chess, online and in person, has reached the highest levels of the game, the most recent activity to be ruined by misguided ambition.

Next year Ding Liren will play Ian Nepomniachtchi in a match for the World Championship title. Magnus Carlsen's withdrawal and Ding's second place in the 2022 Candidates Tournament made it possible. High time to take a closer look at the top player from China and especially his playing skills in ChessBase Magazine! In the current issue our authors comment on their favourite game of the Chinese player. In addition, "Ding Liren's Positional Play" (Mihail Marin's strategy ...

After the incident at the Sinquefield Cup, strict controls for technical aids are undertaken at the Fischer Random World Championship. But how well do these controls work? A journalist from the Norwegian TV station NRK tried it out.

Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen has publicly accused Niemann of cheating

The Fischer Random World Championship, which started yesterday in Reykjavik, is overshadowed by the Niemann lawsuit, in which Niemann sued Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Rensch, chess.com and the Play Magnus Group for 100 million USD. Carlsen and Nakamura are playing in the World Championship, but did not want to comment on the lawsuit. However, the Icelandic Grandmaster Hjörvar Gretarsson, who is a lawyer by profession and who also takes part in the Championship, commented the law...

After beating 5-time world champion from Norway, Hans Niemann was accused of cheating in a mass scandal, later suing for one hundred million dollars claiming efforts were being made to ruin his career