The chess world was not shocked last month when its global champion lost to a 19-year-old. Shock came when the grandmaster accused the victor of cheating — setting off an unfurling scandal that gathered steam this week with a damning new report.
Hans Niemann defeating the great Magnus Carlsen in the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Mo. was a feat for the upstart American, but he isn’t the youngest rival to get the better of the legendary Norwegian — he had been beaten three times this year alone by Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu. But Carlsen responded by quitting the tournament, creating intrigue that exploded two weeks later, at another faceoff between the same two players.
Currently ranked 40th by the international chess federation FIDE, Niemann publicly admitted he had cheated in the past — only in online games, he said, when he was 12 and 16 years old — but staunchly rejected allegations of cheating in the Sinquefield Cup. “While we don’t doubt that Hans is a talented player, we note that his results are statistically extraordinary,” the report said.
A would-be cheater wouldn’t need a computer in hand; just an ally watching their match, getting guidance on the next move from a program and somehow relaying it to the player. Daniel Rensch, a former junior champion and one of the owners of chess.com,In online matches, players are monitored by cameras, and must share their computer screens with arbiters, said Shohreh Bayat, an international arbiter who umpires both online and over-the-board events.
The resulting program, known as “Dr. Regan’s model,” uses databases of thousands of high-level games to detect if a chess player is receiving assistance from a computer during the game. Sinquefield Cup organizers asked Regan to use it to examine the Carlsen-Niemann match. In a press release, tournament officials said neither the program nor staff on site found any indication of cheating.
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