hikaru nakamura
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Chess World’s ‘Anal Bead’ Cheating Saga Quietly Comes To An End
Chess legends Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann have put a 2022 cheating scandal, including meme-filled speculation about anal beads, to bed.
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The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and anonymous screen names. And you thought these sorts of things only happened in video games. But even chess, a turn-based strategy game first released for wooden boards some 1,500 years…
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Chess Is An Esport, According To Twitch Star And Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura
Sometimes it’s the small sprinkles of strangeness that stand out the most. If you had told me several years ago that 2020 would bring daily disasters of incomprehensible consequence, I probably would have believed you, because we’ve been trending in that direction for a while now. The idea of an esports organisation signing a chess…