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A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by 19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann over cheating allegations that were lobbied in St. Louis.
Niemann sought $100 million in damages against chess legend Magnus Carlsen and others, including Chess.com, claiming they conspired to blacklist him and derail his fledgling career.
Challenging and you don't know how they play. >> and it's not just this show that was a phenomenon, david, that has led to, you know, growing interest, a real spike in interest in chess. how did covid contribute to that, do you think? >> it was a big contributor. there are a lot of adults and kids alike at home and they started playing chess and they started to love it. there are great online sites that you can join, like chess.com and many others, and there are streamers that hold on line, grand masters, for instance, and ims and everybody likes watching those who plays chess and it just real...
Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” played a part. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves.
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