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On Sept. 19, reigning chess world champion Magnus Carlsen made just one move against his opponent, American grandmaster Hans Niemann, and then resigned, sending the chess world into a panic about a ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

"Only a bot would play that!" Sacrificing a Queen in chess is a move you're much more likely to see a bot make as opposed to a human, as humans want to protect the game's most valuable piece. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the decades since IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, artificial intelligence has ...

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 ...

American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denied allegations that he cheated in a win over World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen last year, suggesting during an interview Monday with Piers Morgan that the ...

He wiggled his way out of this one. A US teenage chess prodigy dogged by claims he used vibrating “anal beads” to cheat during a high-stakes match has been partially vindicated after he and his ...