The Wild Cheating Scandal Consuming Professional Chess

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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During a match in September, chess grandmaster and world champion Magnus Carlsen made his opening move, and then promptly resigned from play and walked off. This moment sent the chess community into a frenzy, as later it was revealed Carlsen had resigned in protest, accusing his opponent, Hans Niemann, of cheating. But was there evidence to back up Carlsen’s claims…and just how prevalent is cheating in pro chess? Brin-Jonathan Butler brings us inside the controversy that is consuming elite professional chess, a world which is also the focus of his book "Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match that Made Chess Great Again." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, bring out of the Butler, I am incredibly excited to have you on the show today.
0:05.1	We have so much to unpack, but I just want to start with the scene that happened on September
0:10.9	20th, because this scene was just shocking to this entire world that you do so well.
0:18.6	And so if you were to turn on your computer and were to witness what was happening live
0:23.8	in real time, what would you have seen?
0:29.4	You would see Hans Neiman, a 19-year-old American chess grandmaster, move his opening move,
0:37.4	and you would see the greatest player that's ever played chess.
0:40.5	Somebody who is the highest rating in history, a five-time world champion, respond with
0:45.6	one move, and then promptly walk away and shut off his monitor.
0:50.6	The game started, and Magnus asked, what's this happened?
0:55.4	Magnus has resigned.
0:57.5	Magnus has resigned the game he has.
1:00.0	Hans Neiman.
1:01.0	Yes.
1:02.0	Wow.
1:03.0	Magnus Carlson, the Mozart of chess, the highest rated player in history, walks off.
1:11.1	And the chess world is being an absolute shock and incredulity in response.
1:16.2	Magnus Carlson just resigned, got up and left, switched off his camera, and that's all
1:24.7	we know right now.
1:25.7	Magnus resigned.
1:27.7	Magnus resigned.
1:28.7	No.
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