A good while ago, Chess player Hans Neimann was accused of cheating after decisively winning a game against the world champion, Magnus Carlsen. Afterwards, he couldn’t reasonably explain his moves, which added to the cheating suspicion.
The chess meme community ran away with it, and the story blew up just after, so the story became Hans Neimann used anal beads to cheat in a game.
There was never any evidence of this. The best explanation I heard is that Magnus’ company was merging with chess.com right before a tournament, and with that the information of cheating bans were made available to him. He found out that Hans had been banned for cheating a couple years prior on chess.com. Speculation is that this put Magnus on tilt during his match with Hans, and losing just confirmed Magnus’ suspicion that Hans is a cheater IRL as well as online.
I could have sworn I read a similar story a while back. Is this a common thing?
A good while ago, Chess player Hans Neimann was accused of cheating after decisively winning a game against the world champion, Magnus Carlsen. Afterwards, he couldn’t reasonably explain his moves, which added to the cheating suspicion.
The chess meme community ran away with it, and the story blew up just after, so the story became Hans Neimann used anal beads to cheat in a game.
Could’ve been that?
There was never any evidence of this. The best explanation I heard is that Magnus’ company was merging with chess.com right before a tournament, and with that the information of cheating bans were made available to him. He found out that Hans had been banned for cheating a couple years prior on chess.com. Speculation is that this put Magnus on tilt during his match with Hans, and losing just confirmed Magnus’ suspicion that Hans is a cheater IRL as well as online.