Hans Niemann: Last News

NBA star Ben Gordon has been arrested after allegedly hitting his son and putting him in hospital, according to reports. The British ex-basketball ace was reportedly detained while preparing to board a flight to Chicago at LaGuardia airport, New York on Monday. According to the New York Daily News, the 39-year-old had struck his 10-year-old son and the child needed to be taken to hospital as a result, where he was treated for his injuries.

American chess player Hans Niemann broke his silence Wednesday after he was accused in an investigation of cheating 100 times more than he previously admitted in online matches. The Chess.com report that implicated Niemann came out before his first match at the U.S. Championship, which is an over-the-board tournament.  Video from the event showed the 19-year-old being scanned around his backside and even on the snacks he brought for the day.  Niemann had been accused of using devices to help him cheat in matches, including anal beads.

reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, a 72-page report alleges that the 19-year-old champion likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 online games, the latest of which occurred as recently as 2020. Those matches included contests in which prize money was awarded.

allegations that chess grandmaster Hans Niemann cheated in matches against Magnus Carlsen, new evidence reveals that one of Niemann’s coaches admitted to cheating. According to emails reviewed by Motherboard, grandmaster Maxim Dlugy acknowledged he cheated in his own tournaments in 2017 and 2020 on Chess.com.The 56-year-old has been suspected of this for years and was banned from the website in 2017.But in the emails to Chess.com chief chess officer Daniel Rensch published Wednesday, Dlugy discloses that students from his Chess Max Academy were watching him play in a Chess.com tournament and that one of them used chess AI to feed him moves. In one email, Dlugy wrote that in 2017, he was playing in a tournament on Chess.com in front of his students and was crowdsourcing moves from them — which is against Chess.com’s play rules.“I am now positive, that one of the kids, was using an [sic] program on his cell while this was going on,” Dlugy admitted.

Magnus Carlsen has broken his silence during the greatest chess cheating scandal in the history of the sport.

Elon Musk has weighed in on the conspiracy theory suggesting that a top chess player is cheating using vibrating anal beads. The chess world was rocked this week after five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, 31, quit the prestigious Sinquefield Cup after losing to Hans Niemann, 19.