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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.