Then Niemann spoke in his own defence, in his post-game fifth-round interview following his draw with Leinier Domínguez in which his opponent let him off the hook in a lost position. France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who is competing at St Louis, said: “The scandal has become a witch hunt.” Support for the teenager came from Jacob Aagaard, the Danish-Scottish grandmaster who was British champion in 2007 and is a popular author. Security was stepped up, the round-four broadcast was delayed by 15 minutes, and Niemann was thoroughly frisked before the start of his game, but nothing was found. This was widely interpreted as raising suspicions of cheating. Top chess player Hans Niemann admits cheating in past but says he is now ‘clean’ His only explanation was a cryptic video clip of the football manager José Morinho saying “If I speak I am in big trouble,” during a press conference about referees. It is potentially the most serious such case for international chess since the 2005 Toiletgate world championship match, when Veselin Topalov accused Vlad Kramnik of analysing games in the lavatory.Ĭarlsen’s loss to Niemann, 19, was his first for several years with White to a much lower rated opponent, and it was the first withdrawal of the Norwegian’s entire career. Magnus Carlsen’s shock withdrawal from the $350,000 Sinquefield Cup in St Louis following his third-round defeat to the newcomer Hans Niemann has triggered a variety of “cheating” claims.
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