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The dishonest scandal that has consumed the chess world has taken its newest twist as American grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a defamation lawsuit towards world champion Magnus Carlsen amongst others in a Missouri courtroom on Thursday.
Within the lawsuit, Niemann and his attorneys state that they’re looking for not less than $100 million in damages.
“My lawsuit speaks for itself,” Niemann tweeted together with a duplicate of the lawsuit.
Within the federal lawsuit filed within the Japanese Missouri District Court docket, 19-year-old Niemann states that the Norwegian Carlsen, on-line platform Chess.com, their chief chess officer Daniel Rensch and well-liked streamer Hikaru Nakamura have been “egregiously defaming him and unlawfully colluding to blacklist him from the career to which he has devoted his life.”
Niemann is suing the defendants for slander and libel, amongst different allegations.
Niemann additionally states that the actions of the defendants have precipitated “devastating damages,” and that since Carlsen made the preliminary dishonest allegations after the pair met on the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis on September 4, Niemann has had invites to prestigious tournaments and matches revoked.
Chess.com responded to the go well with through an announcement from their attorneys, Nina Mohebbi and Jamie Wine. The assertion notes that Chess.com is “saddened” by Niemann’s resolution because the lawsuit “hurts the sport of chess and its devoted gamers.”
“Hans confessed publicly to dishonest on-line within the wake of the Sinquefield Cup, and the ensuing fallout is of his personal making,” the assertion provides. “As acknowledged in its October 2022 report, Chess.com had traditionally handled Hans’ prior dishonest privately, and was pressured to make clear its place solely after he spoke out publicly.”
“There isn’t any benefit to Hans’ allegations, and Chess.com appears ahead to setting the document straight on behalf of its group and all trustworthy chess gamers,” the assertion says.
CNN has reached out to Carlsen and Nakamura for remark.