Hikaru explains why he\u2019s convinced Niemann cheated in chess drama with Magnus Carlsen Pixabay\/GMHikaruChess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has responded to Magnus Carlsen\u2019s recent remarks in the Hans Niemann cheating allegations and why he believes the 19-year-old looks guilty. A series of allegations have rocked the chess world with prodigy Hans Niemann accused of cheating after he bested Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup leading to all sorts of wild theories such as the use of an adult toy to cheat. Although Niemann was accused of cheating and even admitted to cheating in games back on Chess.com, the young chess icon has remained adamant that he didn\u2019t break the rules against Carlsen. On September 26, Carlsen broke his silence by doubling down on the cheating allegations, but also revealed he was not able to say everything he wanted to without Niemann\u2019s permission. According to Hikaru, Niemamn only looks worse by not letting the world\u2019s top chess star say everything he wants to about the accusations. Hikaru responds to Carlsen \u2013 Niemann chess cheating drama In a YouTube video taken from a Twitch stream, Hikaru delved into Carlsen\u2019s remarks and the problem that Hans faces by remaining silent. After reading a comment saying how Hans will just refuse to say anything and hope the drama moves on, the streamer explained why this would be a bad move. \u201cIf Hans doesn\u2019t say anything, the way I see it, it feels like he\u2019s admitting something,\u201d Hikaru said. \u201cThat has to be the case. There\u2019s no other actual answer to all of this. I mean, what other answer could there be?\u201d While Hikaru made it clear that silence is not an admission of guilt, the fact that Hans has said he hasn\u2019t done anything wrong makes his silence on Carlsen all the more suspicious. So far, Niemann has yet to respond to Carlsen\u2019s latest comments, but until he lets the chess star say everything, it seems like Hikaru has his mind made up about what really happened at the Sinquefield Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hikaru explains why he\u2019s convinced Niemann cheated in chess drama with Magnus Carlsen Pixabay\/GMHikaruChess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has responded to Magnus Carlsen\u2019s recent remarks in the Hans Niemann cheating allegations and why he believes the 19-year-old looks guilty. A series of allegations have rocked the chess world with prodigy Hans Niemann accused of cheating after […]<\/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-49641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641","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=49641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}