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Chess Pro Accused Of Cheating Defiant After Competing In Tourney With Extra Security
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 about how, exactly, Niemann might be cheating in over-the-board play, it…
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Report: Chess Grandmaster From Anal Bead Conspiracy Accused Of Cheating In Over 100 Games
Hans Niemann, who sparked the internet’s favourite 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 for online chess shared it with The Wall…
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YouTube Declares Mega Man 2 Documentary Too Sexy For Kids
YouTuber Summoning Salt’s videos on the history of speedrunning are some of the most popular in the hobby’s space and beyond, and now one of them has fallen prey to the Google platform’s notoriously confusing and opaque moderation process. “This video may be inappropriate for some users,” reads a warning before his new hour-long documentary…
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Disco Elysium Studio Accused Of Ousting Creators, Dev Says It’s ‘Bad News’ For Sequel
Some of the core developers behind beloved 2019 indie RPG Disco Elysium, including the author of the novel it’s based on, are no longer working at the studio that created it. The news was revealed in a blog post written by an editor on the game, Martin Luiga, who claims studio leadership at ZA/UM forced…