American player Hans Niemann, accused of cheating by world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, has “probably cheated more than 100 timesin online games, says chess platform chess.com in a report.
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«In total, we found that Hans (Niemann) probably cheated in more than 100 online chess games, including several monetary prize eventswrites the world’s leading online chess platform in its 20-page report released on Tuesday evening.
The platform banned the 19-year-old from September 5, shortly after the first accusations, but it is defending itself from any pressure from the Norwegian world champion.
The famous platform says to itself “extremely confidentin its means of detecting cheating, for which it reveals to use Grand Masters, in addition to an analysis of the moves played by automated tools.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced Thursday, September 29 the opening of an investigation into these accusations of cheating. If he admitted having cheated in the past on chess.com, when he was between 12 and 16 years old, Hans Niemann denies the most recent accusations, claiming to be “ready to play naked”, if necessary.