Hans Niemann

Hans Niemann is suing grandmaster Magnus Carlsen and others after they accused him of cheating.

Niemann had previously admitted to cheating in informal games on the site when he was 12 and 16, but said he had never done so in competitive games. The 31-year-old accused Niemann of cheating, and suggested his rise to prominence in the chess world had been too rapid to be believable. But Niemann said Carlsen was just unable to cope with defeat, and wanted to ruin the teenage player's reputation and ensure Niemann would not beat him again. Carlsen is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time, but lost to Niemann in an in-person game in September. Lawyers for Chess.com dismissed the allegations, and said the company looked "forward to setting the record straight on behalf of its team and all honest chess players". He is seeking compensation "to recover from the devastating damages that defendants have inflicted upon his reputation, career, and life by egregiously defaming him and unlawfully colluding to blacklist him from the profession to which he has dedicated his life", the lawsuit said.

The grandmaster alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by accusing him of cheating.

Louis, elevating a controversy that has roiled the chess world since September, when Carlsen suggested Niemann cheated during his upset win over Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. But Carlsen offered no evidence of Niemann cheating. Niemann is seeking $100 million in damages in the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. His manager, Henrik Carlsen, did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment. Louis seeking $100 million against the defendants in a controversy that has roiled the chess world since September Louis in September

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by accusing him of ...

Louis against chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, who has suggested Niemann cheated during his upset win over Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. But Carlsen offered no evidence of Niemann cheating. His manager, Henrik Carlsen, did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment. Hans Niemann filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. On Sept. District Court in St.

In a civil lawsuit filed in a federal court in St. Louis, chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges that world champion Magnus Carlsen, chess.com, chess video ...

Chess.com denied the allegations in a statement from the company’s lawyers. “By being excluded from these tournaments, Niemann has lost any opportunity to obtain any appearance fees or cash prizes, as well as the ability to improve his [chess ranking],” the lawsuit claims. In a subsequent online tournament, Carlsen resigned in protest from another match against Niemann after a single move. “In fact, Magnus did not even know we were going to remove Hans until Hans went public with our private correspondence,” the report stated. The civil lawsuit, filed in a federal court in St. “Carlsen, having solidified his position as ‘King of Chess,’ believes that when it comes to chess, he can do whatever he wants and get away with it,” Niemann’s suit says.

The grandmaster is suing world champion Magnus Carlsen and online platform Chess.com, among others.

“Hans confessed publicly to cheating online in the wake of the Sinquefield Cup, and the resulting fallout is of his own making,” the statement read. Niemann’s lawsuit said that Chess.com banned him “from its website and all of its future events to lend credence to Carlsen’s unsubstantiated and defamatory accusations of cheating”. [Chess star likely cheated over 100 times: Investigation](/news/2022/10/5/chess-grandmaster-niemann-cheated-more-than-100-times-wsj) [It’s International Chess Day. Weeks after the Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen resigned after just one move against Niemann in an online tournament and said later in September he believed Niemann had “cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted”. Carlsen’s surprise defeat to Niemann and his subsequent withdrawal from the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, Missouri in September sparked a furore of comments and allegations, including from Nakamura, that Niemann had cheated. Niemann claimed that the defendants are “colluding to blacklist” him from the professional chess world and that he has been shunned by tournament organisers since five-time world champion Carlsen

The 19-year-old chess grandmaster says the world champion has mounted a libelous campaign against him since Niemann defeated Carlsen in September.

But, the lawsuit adds, "Unbeknownst to Niemann at the time, Defendants would do whatever it took ensure that this would never happen." Carlsen later stated outright that he would refuse to play Niemann because of his past links to cheating. He was also streaming in 25 of these games." He was already 17 when he likely cheated in some of these matches and games. The court filing accuses Rensch and Nakamura of using their influence to amplify and bolster Carlsen's claims that Niemann is a cheater. Defendants in the lawsuit include Carlsen, his company Play Magnus Group, the online platform Chess.com and its leader, Danny Rensch, along with grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

GM Hans Niemann has filed a defamation lawsuit against GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Danny Rensch, ...

Lawyers and non-lawyers online have already analyzed the filing in depth. As stated in its October 2022 report, Chess.com had historically dealt with Hans’ prior cheating privately, and was forced to clarify its position only after he spoke out publicly. The lawsuit is the next episode in the chess cheating scandal that has been reported widely upon in mainstream media since early September. He also reveals that a scheduled match with the young German grandmaster No one is sure of participation." For each cause of action, at least $100 million is claimed.

(AP) -- Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by falsely ...

Louis against chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, who has suggested Niemann cheated during his upset win over Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. Hans Niemann filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in St.

Chess prodigy Hans Niemann has taken his feud with grandmaster Magnus Carlson to extraordinary new heights. The 19-year-old has filed a $100 million lawsuit ...

“Notorious for his inability to cope with defeat, Carlsen snapped,” the suit reads. This, paired with Chess.com’s $82 million acquisition of Play Magnus, Carlsen’s chess-app, led to Niemann’s claim in his suit that Carlsen teamed up with others to bring him down. As stated in its October 2022 report, Chess.com had historically dealt with Hans’ prior cheating privately, and was forced to clarify its position only after he spoke out publicly. The allegations began in September soon after the young chess star played against Carlsen at a major tournament in St. In their next game at the Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen pulled out after just one move, fueling suspicions of foul play. Chess prodigy Hans Niemann has taken his feud with grandmaster Magnus Carlson to extraordinary new heights.