It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about.

Chess is a game meant for smart-minded folks, but the nobleness and royalty of the game get stained when cheating is involved. Recently, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen made an indirect yet firm ...

When people cheat at chess, they usually use computers. When computers cheat at chess, they use... other computers, it seems. That's what officials are accusing the maker of Rybka, the world's most ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

The issue cheating in chess has resurfaced after World Champion Magnus Carlsen refused to play against Hans Niemann, apparently alleging cheating. Recently Chess.com, the leading platform for online ...

If Hans Niemann had hoped to put an alleged cheating scandal behind him, the chess grandmaster’s interview with Piers Morgan on Monday might have just scuttled that wish. Niemann has repeatedly denied ...

A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned US grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It ...

A teenage American chess grandmaster at the centre of a cheating scandal likely had illegal assistance in more than 100 online games, an investigation by Chess.com has found. It accused Hans Niemann, ...

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