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Morgan Creek CEO Says FTX Co-Founder SBF Was a ‘Pawn’ Used to ‘Punish’ the Crypto Industry
6.12.2022
Following FTX’s collapse, many industry executives, influencers, luminaries, and politicians have shared their opinions about the carnage the event has caused to crypto markets and a great deal of innocent bystanders. On Dec. 2, the CEO and founder of Morgan Creek Capital, Mark Yusko...
Binance's FTX acquisition seen as chess move by crypto community
8.11.2022
Binance's decision to liquidate 23 million FTT tokens triggered FTX's liquidity crisis
Yu-Gi-Oh! Comes To Life Like That Star Wars 3D Chess Game
31.10.2022
After 7 months of testing, work and tinkering, French Yu-Gi-Oh! fan SuperZouloux has built one of the coolest card game tricks I have ever seen: a game mat and camera setup that, thanks to augmented reality tech, is able to broadcast 3D versions of his monsters as he plays his cards.Read more
Hans Niemann Suing For $100 Million Over Chess Cheating Allegations
21.10.2022
Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster at the centre of cheating allegations—which you can catch up on here—has filed a suit in a Missouri court suing world champion Magnus Carlsen, his chess app Play Magnus, the website chess.com, chess.com’s Daniel Rensch and streamer Hikaru Nakamura for $100...
Chess Pro Accused Of Cheating Defiant After Competing In Tourney With Extra Security
6.10.2022
Two days after Chess.com released a 72-page report detailing Grandmaster Hans Niemann’s repeated history of online cheating on its website, the beleaguered pro is now, much to everyone’s surprise, competing in 2022's U.S. Chess Championship. And while the internet has cracked plenty of jokes...
Leading Chess Site Asked Top 100 Player Unmasked As Cheater To Confess (And They Did)
5.10.2022
On Tuesday evening, The Wall Street Journal published a high-level overview of a report produced by Chess.com, all about Hans Niemann, the player suspected of cheating at the Sinquefield Cup against reigning five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. (Possibly, the internet has repeatedly...
Report: Chess Grandmaster From Anal Bead Conspiracy Accused Of Cheating In Over 100 Games
4.10.2022
Hans Niemann, who sparked the internet’s favorite anal bead meme last month after beating chess world champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning upset, is now accused of cheating in over 100 online matches, according to a new unprecedented 72-page report by Chess.com. The world’s most popular website...
Learn How To Play Chess In 4 Easy Steps (Without Starting Your Own Scandal)
30.9.2022
Chess can be sexy. Anya Taylor-Joy in the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit taught me that. Chess can also be evil and stupid. A viral (and unfounded) claim that a 19-year-old chess champion beat the best chess player in the world, Norwegian pro Magnus Carlsen, by using smart tech anal beads...
Chess Players Are Convinced That The Anal Bead Controversy Is Causing More Online Cheating
29.9.2022
Remember the anal bead cheating controversy? As much as I’d like to forget, it turns out that a lot of people are still thinking about it. Some chess players have reported an uptick of computer-aided cheating in Chess.com matches ever since the story about Hans Niemann broke. One player has dubbed...
Chess Grandmaster Loses Job After Making Sexist Comments At Women’s Tournament
28.9.2022
At its highest levels, chess is a male-dominated activity. There are currently only 39 women who hold the International Chess Federation (FIDE)’s highest title of Grandmaster, compared to over a thousand male Grandmasters. Even “Woman Grandmaster,” a sort of consolation prize title from FIDE that...
Chess Champion Breaks Silence On 'Anal Bead' Cheating Controversy
27.9.2022
After nearly a month of anal bead memes and chess drama, world champion Magnus Carlsen has finally opened up about his stunning defeat to 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann and his shocking stunts that followed in the aftermath. Long story short: He thinks Niemann is a cheater, over the board...
Chess Champion Ratchets Up Cheating Drama By Resigning In Just One Move
19.9.2022
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was supposed to play Hans Niemann, a 19-year old he previously implied was a cheater, in the Champions Chess Tour 2022 today. Instead, he resigned after making just one move, reigniting the embers of a scandal that’s consumed the chess world this month....
The Chess Grandmaster Anal Bead Conspiracy That's Happening Right Now, Explained
16.9.2022
The modern-day world of championship chess isn’t just long games and arcane openings. There’s Twitch drama, robots that break kids’ fingers, and now: anal beads. Last week, World Champion Magnus Carlsen lost to Grandmaster Hans Niemann in a stunning upset. Accusations of cheating began to fill...
Chess Robot Breaks Seven Year Old's Finger, Tourney Official Blames Kid
25.7.2022
Last week a child was playing chess against a robot when, in the words of one official, something “of course bad” happened. According to Russian media reports and a video of the incident, the robot pinched the seven-year-old’s finger and fractured it. Not great!Read more
5-Time World Chess Champion Won't Defend Title, Doesn't Care Anymore
20.7.2022
31-year-old Norwegian chess champion Magnus Carlsen announced he will not be participating in the World Chess Championship 2023, which he has won five times. Now Carlsen is emphasizing passion over victory, and said in the first episode of his new The Magnus Effect podcast that, when it comes...
Bear market? “So what,” says World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov
1.7.2022
Cointelegraph sat down with Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at Consensus 2022 to get his thoughts on the crypto and NFT market
The Hottest Game Of The Summer Has A Cheating Problem
28.6.2022
It’s like clockwork: A game comes out with a robust competitive component…and is instantly inundated by players who rocket to the top via nefarious, unsanctioned means—cheaters, in other words. The latest victim is Neon White, a multi-genre speedrunning game developed by Angel Matrix and published...
Nifty News: OpenSea acquires Gem, and Chess.com makes a move into NFTs
27.4.2022
OpenSea's NFT empire just got bigger with its latest acquisition, while virtual influencer Rae creates an NFT collection to advance girls' education, and online chess players can now turn memorable matches into NFTs with chess.com
After Watching Dr Disrespect Play Chess, Hikaru Nakamura Gets Banned On Twitch
23.3.2022
Popular chess streamer and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura thought it would be okay to watch Dr Disrespect play chess on Twitch. He was wrong, it seems. A chess prodigy, the five-time US champion is one of the best in the world. At age ten, he was then the youngest American to beat an International...
Russian Chess Champion Suspended After Publicly Supporting Invasion Of Ukraine
22.3.2022
Russian chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin, one of the world’s top players, has been suspended for six months by the International Chess Federation after publicly voicing support for his country’s invasion of Ukraine.Read more