The world champion accused Monday September 26 on Twitter, the 19 -year -old American of using irregular means to win. To protest, on September 19, the world number one had already ended a game against Niemann after playing a single blow.
by (with AFP)
This time, the accusations are clear and direct. The five -time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen published, in the evening of September 26, a tweet in which he openly accuses the American player Hans Niemann, 19 and 49
My statement looking the last few weekends. https://t.co/ky34dbcjlo
– magnuscarlsen (@magnus carlsen)
Since the beginning of the month, the world of chess has been boiling. On September 4, the Norwegian was surprisingly withdrawn from the Sinquefield Cup after a defeat against Niemann. In a tweet already full of innuendo, Magnus Carlsen had, in the process, put online a video of 2014 by José Mourinho, then at the head of the English football team of Chelsea. “I do not prefer to speak. If I speak, I’m going to have big trouble,” said the Portuguese coach in an interview, at the end of a match – lost – from which he had been excluded.
i’ve withdrawn from the tournament. The way always enjoyed playing in the @stlchessclub, and hope to be back in the fu… https://t.co/m9f6ru9ebt
Second act Monday, September 19. While playing an online game against the young American in the context of the Julius Baerration Cup, Carlsen this time abruptly turned off his webcam, without a word, in front of commentators and dumbfounded spectators.
Ready to “play naked”
Hans Niemann, who is experiencing dazzling progression, drags, it is true, a somewhat sulphurous reputation in the middle of failures. He admitted to having cheated at 12 and 16 years old during online games, using a computer. This youth gap earned him to be banished by chess.com , the benchmark online chess game platform. But the young prodigy ensures that he has never defrauded in a face-to-face game, even saying that he was ready to “play naked” to prove his good faith.
Why naked? Because speculation about the way he would cheat, thanks to an external technological help, go well: undetectable atrium, subcutaneous implant and even, the most incredible hypothesis, the use of a connected anal plug that would allow him, With impulses, to be “remote-controlled” by a third person herself helped by a computer …
Since then, game experts no longer know where to turn. in the team, the French player Yosha Iglesias considers “impossible” to obtain formal triche proof. “This is an unprecedented case,” said Dutch player Anish Giri. At the microphone of the Norwegian TV2 channel, Jon Ludvig Hammer, consultant and high -level player, deplored “a completely unacceptable attitude [on the part of Carlsen] to deliberately lose”.
For its part, in its raging statement of September 26, Magnus Carlsen, who hopes that “the truth about this case, whatever it is, will be released,” called the discipline to strengthen its security and detection measures cheating.