The chess cheating scandal brewing since September just reignited. Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old chess grandmaster, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, and others, for $100 million in damages. The ...

Hans Niemann claims Netflix’s new documentary will “shift the narrative” about his chess cheating scandal with Magnus Carlsen ...

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...

Chess.com, however, banned Niemann from its platform on Sept. 8, tweeting an official statement as to why. And in early October, the Wall Street Journal reported a Chess.com investigation found that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Kramnik, left, and Veselin Topalov during a match dubbed "Tolietgate" in Elista, Russia, in 2006. (Mergen Bembinov / AP ...