On September 4, the American Grand Master Hans Niemannjust 19 years old, surprised the world by beating (by default) the best chess player of the moment, the Norwegian Magnus Carlson. It was in the Saint Louis tournament (United States) and the victory brought controversy: the European withdrew from the competition (the Sinquefield Cup) and denounced in a statement that his rival was cheating.
Now the gate chess.com released a 72-page report detailing the “more than 100 online games” in which Niemann “probably cheated.” A detail: the internet portal, which has more than 90 million users, announced a month ago its offer of 83 million dollars to acquire Play Magnus, the company of… Carlsen.
Niemann Report
The document is called “The Hans Niemann Report” and consists of 20 pages, which increases to 72 if the exhibits and appendices are taken into account. Chess.com and its fair play team answer questions such as why Niemann was banned from the Global Chess Championship, detail the extent to which he cheated in online games, and explain what can be said about his game. specialized in chess. The report was first published by the Wall Street Journal.
It all started with an interview by Niemann to Chess24 (one of the portals integrated within Play Magnus, Carlsen’s company). In the note, the American confessed to cheating when he was 12 and 16 years old. He did not specify the number of apocryphal games, although he did concede that they had been “all friendly.”
The “Niemann Report” abounds in that number: “There were more than 100″. And he denies the Grand Master: “Some had cash prizes.” Chess.com describes each of the tournaments in which Niemann would have cheated the organizers (and his rivals). According to the portal, the last time the 19-year-old broke the rules was at age 17: he consulted a program capable of processing millions of possible moves per second on a second monitor on his computer, something prohibited.
Chess.com also explains why it decided to exclude Niemann from the Global Chess Championship one day after his victory over Carlsen: “The decision is based on several factors,” says the portal. “In principle, as detailed in the report, Niemann admitted to cheating in online games on our site up until 2020. He did so after our cheat detection software and team discovered suspicious play.”
The portal adds: “Secondly, we had suspicions about Niemann’s game against Carlsen in the Sinquefield Cup, which intensified after the public knowledge events. Third, we were concerned about Niemann’s rapid rise in the rankings, as were many others in the chess community.”
With these arguments, Chess.com understood that “it could not guarantee the integrity” of the Global Chess Championship, which began on September 14 with 64 participants and a prize of one million dollars. “We could not assure the participants and the top players that a chess player who had confessed to cheating in the past, and who has had a meteoric rise in the world rankings (in addition to growing suspicions in the chess community about his play on the board) it would not jeopardize the integrity of the event.”
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This is not the first time that Chess.com has involved Niemann in cheating: a few weeks ago he also revealed that his mentor, Max Dlugy, had also cheated his rivals in online games on that platform, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
The “Niemann Report” maintains that the rise of the American in face-to-face games “is the fastest in history.” In any case, he emphasizes that the work focuses on online games. And that there is the bulk of the deceptions of the young Grand Master. Chess.com has no evidence to substantiate cheating in head-to-head games.
That includes the controversial match against Carlsen, which put Niemann on the table and prompted hundreds of reviews of his game around the world. Chess.com made the conclusions of its report available to the International Chess Federation (FIDE). With the evidence in hand, FIDE ordered an investigation of the “Niemann case” and created a panel of experts. The members are the Lithuanian Salomeja Zaksaite (chair), a criminologist, the Dutchman Vincent Geeraets, an assistant professor of Legal Theory and History at the Vrije University (Amsterdam) and the German international arbitrator Klaus Deventer.
According to FIDE, the investigation will focus on two issues: Carlsen’s accusation of Niemann after his defeat in the United States and the American’s confessions about cheating in online games. The panel “will examine the circumstances, compile and analyze all available data and evidence, as well as assess the facts and allegations that have been disclosed to the public,” FIDE said. The story will continue…
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Chinese balls are a device that works to increase the muscle tone of the pelvic floor. It can also be used as a sex toy.
In chess, according to the striking theory, it would be used to transmit the movements that a player should make from the vibrations of the device.
“The mechanics of the cheat would be simple: an accomplice who was watching the game live (as it was actually being broadcast), could simulate the real game on a computer and see its movements. Later, through vibrations, he could “Notify” the alleged cheater what the suggested movements would be. The anal beads would easily pass any security control, “explains the Spanish portal ‘La Razón’.
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