America’s Hans Niemann says he “won’t back down”, after a leading chess platform reported he has “probably cheated more than 100 times” in online games
After a victory in the US Chess Championship, Niemann says the game he just won"spoke for itself and showed the chess player that I am".American international grandmaster Hans Niemann has said he "won't back down", after the chess platform chess.com reported he has "probably cheated more than 100 times" in online games.
He added, "It also showed that I'm not going to back down and I'm going to play my best chess here regardless of the pressure that I'm under," but declined to comment further. However, chess.com said it had no evidence that Niemann had cheated in "over-the-board" games when players are physically present.
Chess.com described this encounter as "bizarre" but concluded that there was no evidence "that Hans cheated in this game and we do not advocate for any conclusions regarding cheating being made based on this one encounter".
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