Carlsen, then 32 and a five-time World Championship, was widely considered the greatest player in the millennium-and-a-half history of the sport. The Norwegian had an Elo rating — a system that ...

Remember the anal bead cheating controversy? As much as I’d like to forget, it turns out that a lot of people are still thinking about it. Some chess players have reported an uptick of computer-aided ...

In the past month, 19-year-old Hans Niemann has emerged as the most-talked-about American chess player since Bobby Fischer. Found several years ago to be cheating in multiple online games by Chess.com ...

The 19-year-old chess master Hans Niemann has been at the center of swirling accusations that he has recently cheated at both in-person and online chess. Reading time 4 minutes The ongoing chess ...

(CNN) — American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has been reinstated by Chess.com following the conclusion of a legal dispute between Niemann, Magnus Carlsen and the online platform, among others. In ...

I speak the truth and that's very dangerous in today's word,” Niemann says in the new docuseries 'Grandmasters' ...

Hans Niemann, pictured playing chess in St. Louis on September 11, has been accused of cheating by five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen. Lennart Ootes/Grand Chess Tour Teenage chess grandmaster ...

Last September, the Internet was abuzz for weeks about a chess cheating controversy that erupted during the third round of the Sinquefield Cup. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost ...