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Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster on the centre of dishonest allegations—which you’ll be able to atone for right here—has filed a go well with in a Missouri courtroom suing world champion Magnus Carlsen, his chess app Play Magnus, the web site Chess.com, Chess.com’s Daniel Rensch, and streamer Hikaru Nakamura, for $100 million.
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The go well with, tweeted out by Niemann earlier at the moment, might be learn right here.
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Niemann, the 19 year-old chess prodigy who has been accused of not simply dishonest however dishonest utilizing vibrating anal beads, says within the go well with that the allegations towards him are baseless and with out advantage, and world champion Carlsen has lashed out as a result of he was “fearful that the young prodigy would further blemish his multi-million dollar brand.”
He additionally says that “a flurry of independent and unbiased sources” have confirmed he has not cheated, but regardless of this, “Carlsen unleashed his media empire to fan the flames of Carlsen’s cheating accusations, drown out the legitimate evidence refuting them,” and have Niemann “blacklisted” from main worldwide tournaments as a part of a “conspiracy.”
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The “media empire” he’s speaking about are the opposite events accused within the go well with; Carlsen has his personal chess app, Play Magnus, which was lately purchased by Chess.com (the place Niemann is now banned) for over $80 million, and for whom Rensch (who Niemann additionally accused of mendacity about dishonest admissions) is chief chess officer, and Nakamura a streaming associate.
Amazingly, the go well with even features a breakdown of the context behind one of many best sporting soundbytes of all time:
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Basically, Niemann is saying that he beat Carlsen truthful and sq., that beating Carlsen put a dent on the planet champion’s private targets and enterprise plans, and so in retaliation Carlsen and his mates within the chess world created this dishonest scandal. And that because of this, the affair has “had the desired effect of destroying Niemann’s reputation, career, and livelihood.”
The go well with is in search of to clear Niemann’s identify, show that “defendants made the defamatory statements with full knowledge that such statements were false,” and is in search of “no less than” $100 million in damages.
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This entire mess kicked off final month when Niemann was first accused of dishonest in a match towards Carlsen. Bizarre responses from chess figures and wild social media posts finally led to the explosion of a idea that Niemann had used vibrating anal beads to cheat in matches.
Shortly afterwards, a rematch between the pair solely created additional drama when Carlsen resigned after only a single transfer, then stated he would by no means play towards Niemann ever once more. Chess.com then made severe allegations that Niemann had cheated in over 100 on-line matches, which they adopted up with an intensive report and claims of a confession from Niemann, which he now denies within the go well with.
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Perhaps most bizarrely, the character of the dishonest allegations led to gamers at a match earlier this month—together with Niemann himself—being scanned extensively by a “device” which was attempting to detect the presence of any objects hidden on (or on this case in) a participant’s physique which might assist them cheat.