The accused has become the accuser: guilty of cheating according to five-time world champion Magnus Carlsenby the most popular streamer in the discipline Hikaru Nakamura and by the main online chess platform chess.com, Hans Niemann has responded by filing a lawsuit in the United States.
Claim “a minimum of 100 million dollars” for damages to the two players but also to Carlsen’s company, Play Magnus, to the platform chess.com and its manager Daniel Rensch.
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Hans Niemann spread the link to the 44 pages of his lawsuit in a tweet, the same method that Magnus Carlsen had used to announce his withdrawal from the prestigious tournament in Saint-Louis (United States) the day after his defeat against the American, the starting point of the controversyin early September.
The link was accompanied by a phrase: “My lawsuit speaks for itself.” An intrusive reference to his first upset win against the Norwegian in August, during a tournament in Miami.
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After a catastrophic opening day, Niemann started the second day of the tournament by overpowering Carlsen, saying only after the match that “chess speaks for itself”. It matters little that the world number 1 won the next three matches against the young man: the crime of lese majesty had already been committed.
For the American this is not his first controversy, to the point that his compatriot Wesley So, player number 5 in the world, described him as “adolescent, probably the most disrespectful” in chess during an interview for the United States national championship, which ended on Thursday and in which Niemann finished ninth. “There are other very good (young) players but they are all polite“compare.
The entrance Hans Niemann, the “disrespectful” man who set the chess world on fire was first published in diary TODAY.
