A few years ago, the chess website temporarily US grandmaster for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It had reportedly previously his ...

Another participant, the Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, called Niemann’s performance “more than impressive”. While Nieman has admitted to sometimes having cheated in previous online games, he ...

After accusations of cheating swirled around the game’s top players – is it ever possible to have a fair game of chess? Did a teenager cheat to defeat the chess world champion? This question has ...

Hikaru Nakamura plays chess like he talks — at a hundred miles an hour. The 35-year-old grandmaster has been the top ranked US player for over a decade and livestreams rapid fire games of online blitz ...

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 ...

The US chess Grandmaster has denied using a sex toy to cheat during a victorious 2022 match, before calling his former opponent a “bully”. The 20-year-old rocked the chess world after it was alleged ...

NEW YORK – 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.