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Sarah, do you have a favorite ultra-specific world that we've explored in scamplincers?

Actually I do, Rita Crundwell, our quarter horse queen,

learning about the world of showing horses and how much they cost and their

stupid names will live with me forever.

That's a pretty good one.

Well my favorite world is the very weird and specific world of chess.

And it's been over a year since Hans Neiman, the prodigious, rowdy chess player was

accused of cheating by the world's best player.

New York magazine wrote a feature with some pretty favorable updates about him.

Han settled with chess.com and Grandmaster Magnus Carlson in a more than a hundred million dollar defamation suit.

The governing chess body also released a report in December that found nothing suspicious about Hans' live tournament play over the last three years.

But Hans' reputation as a hothead player is still very much alive.

In October 2023, he racked up a $5,000 bill for destroying a hotel room in St. Louis.

He was playing in the U.S. Chess Championship there and he wasn't doing very well.

His tantrum led to the St. chess club banning him from 2024 events and he's still playing and was allowed back on chess.com

But his temper and mood swings has tournament officials and other players wary of him.

If I was him, I'd simply be calm.

He doesn't have to go this hard.

He was in so much trouble, got out of it pretty okay, like why continue being like this, you know?

It just seems so much more difficult.

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