A world champion chess participant who lately misplaced to a teenage participant who was accused of cheating in the most bizarre way possible refused to compete in opposition to the teenager in probably the most passive-aggressive means potential.
It occurred Monday at the Julius Baer Era Cup throughout a match between Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, and 19-year-old Hans Niemann.
Carlsen, who’s rated the top player in the world by the Worldwide Chess Federation, made his first transfer with the black items after which promptly stop the sport, leaving Niemann to do the identical a short while later, according to The Guardian.
There’s historical past between the 2 gamers: Earlier this month, Niemann beat Carlsen on the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, an upset victory so surprising that it impressed not less than one unsubstantiated theory that Niemann used a pc program that secretly communicated successful strikes through a “prostate massager” or “wireless anal beads.”
Nonetheless, Niemann insists that he received honest and sq. and that he was prepared to “strip fully naked” to debunk the anal beads concept.
Nobody has proved that Niemann cheated on the Sinquefield Cup, however he had additionally been accused of cheating in prize-money matches on Chess.com and was banned from the location, although he’s allowed to compete at Chess24.com.
After Niemann’s upset victory, Carlsen abruptly withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup. His solely remark on the time was a cryptic tweet of a 2020 speech by Portuguese soccer supervisor Jose Mourinho: “I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble … and I don’t want to be in big trouble.”
Carlsen’s actions on Monday have been referred to as out by different chess gamers, together with grandmaster Jon Ludvig Hammer, his fellow countryman, who referred to as for sanctions in opposition to Carlsen, saying, “It’s the most unacceptable behavior to lose on purpose. The most unsportsmanlike [thing] you can do,” according to Defector.com.
Neither Carlsen nor Niemann has commented on Monday’s recreation, however Kotaku.com noted that Carlsen’s actions were especially shocking since his personal group is internet hosting the match, which implies he “effectively invited his apparent nemesis to his virtual home and then walked out the back.”
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