Chess cheating scandal

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 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.

Amid the controversy, women looking and dressed like casino workers oddly showed up at the Saint Louis Chess Club, where the tournament was held, in order to stand foolishly against Magnus Carlsen.

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

Gambling on Chess

Beginning in 2018, there was a sharp increase in gambling on chess games, and by 2022 many millions of dollars are bet on the game outcomes on numerous different websites, in Las Vegas, and around the world. The 1-in-2,500 unlikely foregoing victories by an unheralded player, who has admitted to having cheated in online games in the past, may create doubt as to whether there should payouts on bets on these implausible outcomes.

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