The American chess player was accused of using a sex toy to cheat after he defeated five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup Hans Niemann's sex toy cheating scandal is ...

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

The ongoing feud between Carlsen and Niemann dates back to 2022, when the American rising star defeated the World #1 at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, thus ending his 53-game unbeaten streak.

Chess victor Magnus Carlsen, ranked the world’s best player, competes against rival Hans Niemann at the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship semi-finals in Paris that begin on Friday. It is their first ...

Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation, said Wednesday he has formally referred all relevant public statements made by Kramnik before and after Naroditsky's death to the ...

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 ...

2025 is turning out to be an exciting year for Arjun Erigaisi. During the Tata Masters in Wijk aan Zee, Erigaisi had a disastrous, and only found his form towards the end, when all hope was lost for ...

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...