American teenage chess prodigy Hans Niemann has sued the Norwegian grandmaster who accused him of utilizing anal beats to cheat – in addition to on-line platform Chess.com, claiming they defamed him and sought to blacklist him from the sport.

In court docket papers, filed in Missouri on Thursday, he claims that 31-year-old Magnus Carlsen, who he describes because the self-styled ‘King of Chess’, was fearful that {the teenager} would blemish his multi-billion greenback model after beating him in September.

Weeks after the incident, Chess.com launched a report claiming Niemann had ‘seemingly cheated’ in lots of of video games. 

Niemann, 19, denied the accusations, saying that he solely cheated twice in his life – on the age of 12 and 16 – and that each infractions have been among the biggest regrets of his life. 

Chess.com government Daniel Rensch and chess streamer Hikaru Nakamura are additionally named as defendants. 

He’s now demanding a trial ‘to recuperate from the devastating damages that defendants have inflicted upon his fame, profession and life by egregiously defaming him and unlawfully colluding to blacklist him from the occupation to which he has devoted his life,’ based on the lawsuit. 

In his lawsuit, Niemann claims:

• Carlsen created Participant Magnus, a profitable international model that he merged with Chess.com in an $83 million deal, ‘to monopolize the chess world’
• On September 4, he taunted Carlson in an interview after beating him, and this induced the Norwegian to ‘snap’ and he ‘maliciously’ retaliated towards {the teenager}
• The defeat robbed Carlsen of solidifying him ‘as the best chess participant of all time’, which ‘would have made his empire extra invaluable’
• Carlsen then ‘falsely and baselessly’ accused Niemann of dishonest after he was ‘unable to just accept the truth of his sudden loss’  

Niemann is searching for $100 million in compensatory, consequential and punitive damages.

American teenage chess prodigy Hans Nieman has sued the Norwegian grandmaster who accused him of utilizing anal beats to cheat – in addition to on-line platform Chess.com

In court docket papers, filed in Missouri on Thursday, Niemann claims that 31-year-old Magnus Carlsen, who he describes because the self-styled ‘King of Chess’, was fearful that {the teenager} would blemish his multi-billion greenback model after beating him in September

Niemann was accused of utilizing vibrating anal beads to speak along with his coach throughout a September 4 event towards Carlsen. 

The 19-year-old chess prodigy beforehand declared he would play bare to show doubters fallacious after rumors recommended he might have used vibrating anal beads, managed by a third-party, to find out the very best strikes to make in his match towards Carlsen. 

‘Carlsen’s unprecedented actions, coupled along with his unfounded accusations, despatched shock waves by means of the chess world and immediately thrust Niemann into the middle of what’s now extensively reported as the one largest chess scandal in historical past,’ the lawsuit reads. 

‘Despite the fact that Carlsen had no respectable foundation to consider Niemann really cheated towards him, he might make sure that no respected chess event would invite Niemann to compete sooner or later, and his false accusations would trigger different high chess gamers to boycott Niemann as nicely.’ 

The lawsuit alleges that Carlsen’s actions have been financially pushed and cited his Participant Magnus model merger with Chess.com for about $83 million in August. 

Defendant Nakamura is one in every of Chess.com’s ‘influential streaming companion’ that posted content material to amplify Carlsen’s accusations with ‘quite a few further defamatory statements.’ 

In the meantime, Chess.com government Rensch is accused of releasing ‘defamatory report’ to ‘bolster Carlsen’s unsubstantiated defamatory accusations that Niemann cheated towards him on the Sinquefield Cup.’ 

Niemann was organized to play towards teenage Grandmaster Vincent Keymer in Germany however Keymer later refused to play after the cheater allegations. 

 The 19-year-old chess prodigy beforehand declared he would play bare to show doubters fallacious after rumors recommended he might have used vibrating anal beads

 The lawsuit claimed that Carlsen had no reasoning to say Niemann was dishonest utilizing anal beads 

Niemann – pictured in 2021, when he achieved the title of grandmaster – despatched the elite world of aggressive chess right into a tailspin when he defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen

After the anal bead dishonest accusations, a 72-page report accused the ‘self-taught chess prodigy’ of dishonest ‘greater than 100 instances’ in an October 4 report by Chess.com. 

‘On October 5, 2022, Niemann was scheduled to start competing within the U.S. Chess Championship event, which, attributable to Defendants’ repeated defamatory accusations and blacklisting, is sort of probably one of many final aggressive chess tournaments during which Niemann will ever be allowed to play,’ the lawsuit reads. 

‘Niemann desperately hoped to have the ability to compete in that event, ship a formidable efficiency, and reduce the blow of at the very least a few of Defendants’ defamatory accusations. But, as soon as once more, Defendants had completely different plans.’ 

The prolonged report confirmed that the prodigy privately confessed to Chess.com he had cheated on quite a few events, whereas it additionally revealed that he was banned from the positioning – although this was by no means made public.

The report states that Niemann confessed his dishonest to Chess.com COO Danny Rensch throughout a Zoom name, and afterwards in writing throughout a Slack chat.

Most of the tournaments Chess.com mentioned Niemann cheated in included money prizes, the report mentioned, together with Chess.com prize occasions, Velocity Chess Championship Qualifiers, and the PRO Chess League.

On account of the accusations, tournaments, together with the Tata Metal Chess Event, have ceased contact with Niemann. In the meantime, Carlsen’s refusal to take part in tournaments the place Niemann is current additionally bans the 19-year-old from ‘the overwhelming majority’ of them. 

Niemann would take part in about 15 main chess tournaments per 12 months and earn between $5,000 to $15,000 in look charges and between $5,000 to $100,000 in money prizes, based on the lawsuit. 

Now that Niemann has been barred from taking part in most tournaments, the lawsuit claimed the 19-year-old’s ‘profession’ is destroyed by ‘Defendants’ lies.’ 

Officers from the net chess platform Chess.com launched a report which discovered American prodigy Hans Mok Niemann has cheated over 100 instances in his skilled profession

Niemann despatched the elite world of aggressive chess right into a tailspin when he defeated Carlsen within the prestigious Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, Missouri, final month. 

The 31-year-old Norwegian is mostly acknowledged to be the best participant within the recreation’s historical past and had been having fun with an unbeaten 53-game streak till he sat down reverse Niemann on September 4.

The upset was so sudden that rumors of dishonest started to swirl virtually instantly and lurid allegations that Niemann owed his victory to the usage of vibrating anal beads that telegraphed profitable strikes in Morse code rapidly took maintain.

In a later match Carlsen resigned after only one transfer in what has been interpreted as his perception that Niemann’s play shouldn’t be on the extent.