{"id":1638630,"date":"2022-09-11T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638630"},"modified":"2022-09-11T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:54:11","slug":"naked-chess-and-anal-beads-cheating-rumor-rocks-world-of-elite-grandmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naked-chess-and-anal-beads-cheating-rumor-rocks-world-of-elite-grandmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Chess And Anal Beads? Cheating Rumor Rocks World Of Elite Grandmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnaked-chess-and-anal-beads-cheating-rumor-rocks-world-of-elite-grandmasters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The elite world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israeli-chess-team-denied-saudi-arabia-visas-world-amanda-prestigiacomo\/\">international chess competition<\/a> is in turmoil amid suspicions that the top player\u2019s long-running undefeated streak ended when his opponent cheated.<\/p>\n<p>Magnus Carlsen, who had won 53 straight matches and is the reigning world champion, lost last week to Hans Moke Niemann, a 19-year-old American grandmaster, in the prestigious Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, then promptly withdrew from the ongoing tournament. The startling move by Carlsen, a Norwegian, spurred speculation among other top players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Magnus believes that Hans probably is cheating,\u201d said Hikaru Nakamura, an American grandmaster ranked No. 6 in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/magnus-carlsen-hans-niemann-chess-cheating-scandal-11662644458\">told The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emil Sutovsky, the general director of FIDE, the international chess governing body, hinted that something was afoot in the tourney, which has a $350,000 purse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how his tournaments went, Magnus Carlsen never quit,\u201d Sutovsky tweeted, \u201cHe must have had a compelling reason, or at least he believes he has it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Carlsen, 31, has not addressed his withdrawal other than to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnusCarlsen\/status\/1566848734616555523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0a quote from soccer manager Jose Mourinho, who once protested the result of a match by saying: \u201cIf I speak, I am in big trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve withdrawn from the tournament. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed playing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/STLChessClub?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@STLChessClub<\/a>, and hope to be back in the future <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFSpl8er3u\">https:\/\/t.co\/YFSpl8er3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnusCarlsen\/status\/1566848734616555523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chess legend Garry Kasparov said the bizarre situation must be explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not delve into the ugly insinuations of the matter now, but must remark on what we do know: World chess champion Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the world\u2019s premier tournament in St. Louis, an act with no precedent in the past 50 years, and his explanation is required,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kasparov63\/status\/1567878295697461248?s=20&amp;t=Zf-RycU9jj4egg33uMuAbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kasparov tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann, for his part, denied ever cheating at face-to-face chess, but admitted he has cheated online. It is not clear how Niemann may have cheated \u2013 if he did \u2013 but players have been caught hiding buzzers of other electronic devices on their person, from which they can get guidance from a confederate watching on video from afar.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and chess fan, made a similar remark in a since-deleted tweet last week in which he replied to speculation that a \u201cvibrating anal bead\u201d could help a player cheat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can almost hear that snap of the rubber glove before chess match cavity searches,\u201d Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann, who beat Carlsen despite playing with the black pieces, which is a disadvantage, said he would play naked if ordered to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must be embarrassing for the world champion to lose to me,\u201d said Niemann, who was the lowest-rated player in the field and later <a href=\"https:\/\/chess24.com\/en\/read\/news\/sinquefield-cup-8-firouzja-leapfrogs-so\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost to Fabiano Caruana<\/a>. \u201cI feel bad for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tournament organizers commissioned a \u201cchess detective\u201d to screen Niemann\u2019s moves against Carlsen, but he found no evidence of cheating, according to The Wall Street Journal. The day after Carlsen quit, the tournament imposed several security measures, including a 15-minute broadcast delay of matches, scans for suspicious radio frequencies, and forcing players to go through a metal detector.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Some grandmasters are backing Carlsen, while others believe Niemann is being unfairly smeared. Acclaimed Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi told the newspaper preventing the possibility of cheating would require competitors \u201cplaying naked in a locked room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chess competitions moved online during the COVID pandemic, but have since returned to over-the-board play. In defending himself, Niemann, who had previously been banned from online host chess.com, acknowledged that he had cheated in online play.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m telling the world because I do not want any misrepresentation, and I do not want rumors,\u201d he said. \u201cI have never cheated in an over-the-board game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elite world of international chess competition is in turmoil amid suspicions that the top player\u2019s long-running undefeated streak ended when his opponent cheated. Magnus Carlsen, who had won 53 straight matches and is the reigning world champion, lost last week to Hans Moke Niemann, a 19-year-old American grandmaster, in the prestigious Sinquefield Cup in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}