Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World champion Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen explicitly accused Hans Niemann of cheating in chess matches. Former grandmaster and ...

Magnus Carlsen achieved the rank of chess grandmaster — the highest rank achievable in chess — at the age of 13 years old. The 31-year-old Norwegian mastermind is a five-time World Chess Champion and ...

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Veteran Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi added that while doping in other sports only offered athletes a “10 per cent” ...

If Hans Niemann had hoped to put an alleged cheating scandal behind him, the chess grandmaster’s interview with Piers Morgan on Monday might have just scuttled that wish. Niemann has repeatedly denied ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watch: Magnus Carlsen quits Niemann rematch after one move Chess champion Magnus Carlsen has spoken for the first time since ...

Remember the anal bead cheating controversy? As much as I’d like to forget, it turns out that a lot of people are still thinking about it. Some chess players have reported an uptick of computer-aided ...

Ever since the chess world went into collective panic over allegations of cheating among super-grandmasters back in 2022, the game has been roiled by rampant paranoia. Tournaments have scaled up ...

A cheating scandal has erupted in the staid and serious world of chess. When a second-tier chess player twice beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen, a Norse titan whom no one ever beats, chess ...

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It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about.