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The '''chess cheating scandal''' of 2022 concerned a highly unlikely ostensible victory by a 19-year-old relatively low-ranked player named Hans Niemann, playing with the weaker black pieces, against the greatest player of our time, [[Magnus Carlsen]], while Carlsen was on an unbeaten streak.  This was the second improbable defeat by Niemann with the black pieces against Carlsen in merely a few months.  Carslen then quit the [[chess]] tournament, which is nearly unprecedented, and some infer his comment afterwards to mean that he felt he had been cheated.  Niemann denied that he cheated.

The '''chess cheating scandal''' of 2022 concerned a highly unlikely ostensible victory by a 19-year-old relatively low-ranked player named Hans Niemann, playing with the weaker black pieces, against the greatest player of our time, [[Magnus Carlsen]], while Carlsen was on an unbeaten streak.  This was the second improbable defeat by Niemann with the black pieces against Carlsen in merely a few months, and the second consecutive unexpected win by Niemann in the tournament.  Carslen then quit the [[chess]] tournament (the Sinquefield Cup 2022), which is nearly unprecedented, and some infer his comment afterwards to mean that he felt he had been cheated.  Niemann denied that he cheated.

The odds of a player of Niemann's lower rank defeating the high-ranking Carlsen twice with the black pieces is estimated to be only 1 in 2,500.

The odds of a player of Niemann's lower rank defeating the high-ranking Carlsen twice with the black pieces is estimated to be only 1 in 2,500.

The [[liberal media]] conceal the possible impact of [[gambling]] on this controversy, in their many stories about this.

The [[liberal media]] conceal the possible impact of [[gambling]] on this controversy, in their many stories about this.

After the [[Saint Louis Chess Club]] changed its rules in the middle of its tournament to require a 15-minute delay on its broadcasts, the level of play by Hans Niemann declined significantly.

After the [[Saint Louis Chess Club]] changed its rules in the middle of its tournament to require a 15-minute delay on its broadcasts, the level of play by Hans Niemann sharply declined. All the games in this tournament can be analyzed at chess.com.<ref>https://www.chess.com/events/2022-sinquefield-cup/02/Niemann_Hans_Moke-Mamedyarov_Shakhriyar</ref>

==Gambling on Chess==

==Gambling on Chess==