The cheating scandal rocking the chess world
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.1 | Today, spectacular resignations, allegations of cheating, |
| 0:14.7 | and accusations of secret devices hidden in, well, you'll find out, |
| 0:19.7 | unraveling the scandal that's shaking professional chess. |
| 0:38.2 | This is going to be a clutch, clutch game for Magnus Carlson and Hans Nieman. |
| 0:44.0 | It's going to be an epic encounter. |
| 0:46.8 | It's the 19th of September at the Julius Bear Generation Cup, |
| 0:52.2 | a top-level online chess tournament, and one of the most closely watched matches |
| 0:57.1 | all year is just starting. |
| 0:58.9 | The D4 on the board, Magnus was 9-6. |
| 1:04.3 | Moving first using the white pieces is the Norwegian Magnus Carlson, |
| 1:09.0 | the reigning five-time world champion, |
| 1:11.6 | and a guy who's almost single-handedly made chess kind of cool, and against him |
| 1:17.6 | is this crazy-haired up-and-coming young American. |
| 1:20.8 | Hans Nieman. |
| 1:22.3 | This is his main move, D4-9-F64, yeah, definitely. |
| 1:27.2 | Nieman has just made his second move when Carlson does something. |
| 1:32.0 | Shocking. |
| 1:33.2 | With that warning, he's screened freezes, then goes blank. |
| 1:45.2 | And Magnus has locked off what's happened? |
| 1:47.2 | The game between Hans and Magnus has got stuck lost. |
| 1:50.8 | Lost? Magnus lost? |
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