CHESS KING THROWS CHEATING REMATCH
CRAFTY teen Hans Niemann forced world chess champ Magnus Carlsen to quit after ONE MOVE — taking sweet revenge on him and other experts who accused him of cheating!
Play-by-play announcers were stunned when No. 1 Carlsen, 31, resigned after just one move, shutting down his camera, at the virtual Julius Baer Generation Cup Sept. 19.
“This is unprecedented,” exclaimed astonished announcer Tania Sachdev.
“Did that just happen? Magnus just refusing to play against Hans.”
Meanwhile, 19-year-old prodigy Niemann was crowing: “It must be embarrassing for the world champion to lose to an idiot like me. I feel bad for him.”
As GLOBE reported, just two weeks before the rematch, Niemann gave the champ his first loss in 53 games at an over-theboard St. Louis tournament that triggered a firestorm. Carlsen made a bizarre comment hinting he believed Niemann cheated. Fans and experts speculated he cheated by using vibrating anal beads to send coded electronic signals of his best moves.
Niemann has admitted cheating in online games when he was 12, but insists: “I have never cheated in an over-the-board game.”