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95 US planetary grandmaster Hans Niemann waits his crook to determination during a second-round chess crippled against Jeffery Xiong connected the 2nd time of the Saint Louis Chess Club Fall Chess Classic successful St. Louis, Missouri, connected October 6, 2022.
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Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a $100 cardinal suit against satellite champion Magnus Carlsen and others for alleged defamatory statements claiming that Niemann cheated successful competition.
The suit claims that the defendants, including Chess.com, inflicted "devastating damages" against Niemann by "egregiously defaming him" and "unlawfully colluding" to barroom him from the nonrecreational chess world.
"My suit speaks for itself," Niemann said Thursday successful a Twitter post.
Niemann, 19, has admitted to cheating connected 2 occasions, erstwhile once helium was 12 years aged and a 2nd clip erstwhile helium was 16. But helium denied claims that helium cheated successful an over-the-board lucifer against Magnus Carlsen this year.
Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup successful September aft losing to Niemann, and yet came guardant with concerns that Niemann had cheated successful the lucifer successful which helium defeated Carlsen.
"When Niemann was invited past infinitesimal to the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, I powerfully considered withdrawing anterior to the event. I yet chose to play," Carlsen, 31, had said. "I had the content that helium wasn't tense oregon adjacent afloat concentrating connected the crippled successful captious positions, portion outplaying maine arsenic achromatic successful a mode I deliberation lone a fistful of players tin do."
World chess champion Norway's Magnus Carlsen poses with the FIDE satellite chess title trophy aft beating challenger.
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Chess.com subsequently banned Niemann aft reporting that an interior probe revealed grounds of much cheating than Niemann had admitted to.
"We person shared elaborate grounds with him concerning our decision, including accusation that contradicts his statements regarding the magnitude and seriousness of his cheating connected Chess.com," representatives from the Chess website wrote astatine the time. "We person invited Hans to supply an mentation and effect with the anticipation of uncovering a solution wherever Hans tin enactment connected Chess.com"
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