Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...
Kotaku

Biggest Chess Site In The World Bans 100,000 Accounts A Month For Cheating

Chess.com is one of the biggest digital chess platforms in the world, with over 100 million members. But as the site has grown and become more popular, it has also attracted naughty players who break ...
New York Magazine

Chess Brat

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On the second day of this year’s Grenke Chess Open, Europe’s largest ...
CNN

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann ‘categorically’ denies using vibrating sex toys to cheat in the sport

If Hans Niemann had hoped to put an alleged cheating scandal behind him, the chess grandmaster’s interview with Piers Morgan on Monday might have just scuttled that wish. Niemann has repeatedly denied ...