Magnus Carlsen roasts GM Hikaru over new chess cheating allegations Pixabay\/Chess.comMagnus Carlsen responded to a series of new cheating allegations levied against GM Hikaru after he set a new blitz chess rating record just days earlier. The rivalry between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura took an interesting turn on November 21 after the Kick streamer was accused of cheating in his record-breaking Chess.com record run. In a cryptic message, Vladimir Kramnik seemingly took aim at Hikaru\u2019s record by pointing to a player\u2019s recent blitz chess statistics, raising concerns about cheating. Although Hikaru called these claims \u201cgarbage,\u201d Magnus Carlsen couldn\u2019t help but poke fun at his friend and rival with a cryptic tweet. Magnus Carlsen responds to Hikaru chess cheating allegations On social media, Carlsen posted a screenshot of a chess match he was having with Hikaru where the streamer appeared to blunder his bishop to a pawn. Nakamura ended up losing the game even though he was using the white pieces. \u201cWins all these online events, yet doesn\u2019t know how pawns capture? Interesting,\u201d Carlsen captioned the tweet. Hikaru had quite the witty comeback to this though, joking, \u201cI know you don\u2019t know how the knight moves, I was hoping you didn\u2019t know how the pawn moves too!\u201d This is in reference to a stream Magnus Carlsen had with Andrea and Alexandra Botez on Twitch where he jokingly asked how the knight moves and it\u2019s since become a bit of an inside joke in the chess community. I know you don’t know how the knight moves, I was hoping you didn’t know how the pawn moves too!! \ud83d\ude06 \u2014 Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) November 21, 2023 In any case, it doesn\u2019t seem like Carlsen is taking the accusations against Hikaru seriously. The two are very vocal about stopping cheating in their game and notably banded together on allegations that Hans Niemann had cheated in matches. Despite Niemann being cleared of any wrongdoing in over-the-board games, some viewers were convinced that he used an adult toy to cheat in order to best Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in 2022. For more chess coverage and the latest drama, keep it locked to Dexerto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Magnus Carlsen roasts GM Hikaru over new chess cheating allegations Pixabay\/Chess.comMagnus Carlsen responded to a series of new cheating allegations levied against GM Hikaru after he set a new blitz chess rating record just days earlier. The rivalry between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura took an interesting turn on November 21 after the Kick streamer […]<\/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-54757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54757","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=54757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}