Niemann had previously been banned from the site privately for admitting to cheating when he was 12 and 16-years-old during online games which he said were not for money.Ĭheating in chess is considered a mortal sin, with lengthy bans for those caught in FIDE - the game’s governing body - tournaments. Niemann, a 19-year-old American Grandmaster, was accused of cheating by Magnus Carlsen - the number one player in the world for over 10 years, and has since been banned from the game’s biggest website, .Ĭarlsen has now refused to play Niemann and said he believes that Hans has cheated “more - and more recently” than he has admitted to. The civil lawsuit published online by Niemann on Thursday evening, claims, Carlsen and Nakamura engaged in a “coordinated campaign of defamation and misinformation” which has “ruined his life”. The biggest scandal ever to engulf the game of chess has deepened further after Grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a $100m defamation lawsuit against and two top Grandmasters - Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura.
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