The Cheating Accusation Rocking Competitive Chess

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The chess world has been gripped by drama after world champion Magnus Carlsen accused newcomer Hans Moke Niemann of cheating. WSJ’s Andrew Beaton explains how the whole fiasco is threatening to taint the sanctity of the 1,500-year-old game. Further Reading: - Chess Is in Chaos Over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen - The Question Behind the Magnus Carlsen-Hans Niemann Drama: How to Cheat at Chess? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And there we have it where underway and as you will say.
0:11.1	At the start of the month, there is this big chess tournament in St. Louis.
0:15.0	That's our colleague Andrew Beaton.
0:17.2	In the third round of the tournament, two players sat across the board from one another.
0:21.7	Seated at one side of the board, playing the white pieces, was the 31-year-old Norwegian
0:27.2	superstar Magnus Carlson.
0:30.2	The one thing you need to know about Magnus Carlson is that he is the modern golden boy of chess.
0:34.4	Magnus Carlson, of course, not a stranger to be leading the Singfield Cup.
0:38.1	He has won the World Championship five times.
0:41.2	Many consider him to be the greatest player ever.
0:44.6	He's sort of great face for the game internationally.
0:48.5	Okay, so Magnus Carlson is at one side of the table.
0:52.4	Who is at the other?
0:54.7	On the other side is Hans Mokneeman.
0:56.7	And there we see a newcomer, Hans Neeman.
1:00.5	He's a young 19-year-old American with a big mop of brown hair.
1:05.1	Who over the past couple years has absolutely skyrocketed in the world rankings.
1:10.7	He's good enough at chess to make it into this tournament, though he was also the lowest
1:14.7	rated player in this tournament.
1:16.7	Magnus has been playing this big chess field for a D5.
1:21.3	Neeman, the Shaggy Herd teen, was surprisingly in command of the game.
1:26.3	That's probably as bad a body posture I've seen on Magnus in ages.
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