The chess player accused of using anal Chinese balls confesses to the Rubiales journalist

2023-09-27 12:44:35

The American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann, once accused by Magnus Carlsen of cheating, He has “categorically” denied that he used sex toys to win games.

In a surreal interview given to British journalist Piers Morgan – the same one to whom Luis Rubiales, former president of the Spanish Football Federation, announced his resignation -, Niemann tried to clean up his image. And to do this he made sure that nothing escaped him, being accompanied by his primary lawyer, Terrence A. Oved.

Niemann, 20, a chess prodigy who was awarded the title of Grandmaster on January 22, 2021, His career began to go wrong after beating Carlsen a year ago in the Sinquefield Cup in San Luis. The Norwegian legend, without specifying the methods, accused his rival of having cheated. Then, after a huge stir on social media, the possibility began to circulate that Niemann I would have used the vibration of some Chinese balls controlled from the outside to redirect movements.

“The media attacked me”

The American always denied it. Also to the controversial Piers Morgan, despite the insistence of the journalist to whom Rubiales turned to excuse his non-consensual kiss to Jenni Hermoso during the celebration of the World Cup won by Spain in Sydney. “Your curiosity is a little worrying”Niemann told Morgan, and then said: “Perhaps you are personally interested [en el empleo de bolas chinas], but I can tell you categorically no; of course not.” And he continued: “The media attacked me and my confidence collapsed. Although dealing with all that pressure that fell on me helped me in my learning period.”

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Niemann also had to respond to that report from the Chess.com platform, dominant in online chess, in which it identified the young American as a probable cheater in more than 100 online games between 2015 and 2020. Niemann responded to these accusations with a lawsuit in which he claimed 100 million euros. both Chess.com and Magnus Carlsen. A judge ended up rejecting the lawsuit last June, ending the large online chess platform for accepting the chess player’s re-entry.

Niemann, in any case, had admitted to cheating in online chess games between the ages of 12 and 16. “They were meaningless games, something childish. There was no money involved”he settled.