Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician ...
Time

The True Story Behind Untold: Chess Mates

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

Hans Niemann plots a path from chess villain to vindication

Everybody heard the outlandish cheating accusations. Now Hans Niemann is ready to fight for his reputation, and a chess world championship.
NPR

Chess body investigating ex-world champion who accused Daniel Naroditsky of cheating

The International Chess Federation is investigating a Russian grandmaster for allegations of cheating he leveled at fellow elite players, including 29-year-old U.S. grandmaster and YouTube sensation ...
EL PAÍS English

‘Chess Mates,’ the documentary about the world champion who defamed a rival — and won’t apologize

In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence ...
AOL

Sore loser: Study shows AI models cheat to win when playing chess

Chess may be the Game of Kings, but royalty could give way to machinery in the years to come. A recent study has found that artificial intelligence, when pitted in a tight game of chess, often resorts ...