Hans Niemann walks out of interview after chess match with extra anti-cheat security Twitch\/STLChessClubChess star Hans Niemann is still disputing claims that he cheated against Magnus Carlsen, but refused to discuss the situation in a recent interview. The chess world has been rocked by a series of allegations against 19-year-old prodigy Hans Niemann after he was able to defeat Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces \u2013 an incredibly difficult feat at the highest levels. Niemann was accused of cheating in the tournament, leading to much speculation from the community about how that was possible with some suggesting that electronic anal beads were being used to transmit messages. While there hasn\u2019t been any proof he cheated, a massive report found that he \u2018likely\u2019 cheated in over 100 matches. Despite all this drama facing him, Niemann has remained defiant that he is cheating. Niemann responds to cheating allegations and walks out Niemann completed his first match of the 2022 US Chess Championship on Wednesday \u2013 an event that had loads of extra security measures. Before he could even get in, he was scanned before entering. Plus, as Kotaku reports, the St. Louis Chess Club added radio frequency scanners to capture any sort of signaling from players. Regardless of all this, the young chess star was able to defeat Christopher Yoo, once again with the black pieces, but didn\u2019t have much to say when he was interviewed after. Once he was asked about the pressure he was under and to explain more about his situation, Niemann said the game was about sending a message. \u201cThis entire thing started with me saying chess speaks for itself and I think this game spoke for itself in showing the chess player that I am. It also showed I\u2019m not going to back down and I\u2019m going to play my best chess here regardless of the pressure that I\u2019m under,\u201d he responded. \u201cChess speaks for itself and that\u2019s all I can say,\u201d he added, but as the interviewer tried to change the topic to the match itself, Niemann ended the interview. \u201cYou can leave it up to interpretation, but thank you. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s such a beautiful game I don\u2019t need to describe it.\u201d Certainly, such a response could end up raising more questions than answers, but we\u2019ll have to see how it plays out as this drama continues in a stalemate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hans Niemann walks out of interview after chess match with extra anti-cheat security Twitch\/STLChessClubChess star Hans Niemann is still disputing claims that he cheated against Magnus Carlsen, but refused to discuss the situation in a recent interview. The chess world has been rocked by a series of allegations against 19-year-old prodigy Hans Niemann after he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}