The True Story Behind Untold: Chess Mates

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

The dark side of chess – from ‘poisoning’ rivals to dirty selfie tricks & a player accused of cheating by using sex toy

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals.
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Critic of chess grandmaster found dead was caught up in a cheating scandal of his own

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...

Netflix’s ‘Untold: Chess Mates’ documentary into Carlsen-Niemann scandal opens old can of worms but says nothing new

A new Netflix documentary on the 2022 cheating scandal points to how in the Carlsen vs Niemann case, Chess.com was the chief character witness against the accused, the partial executioner, the lead ...

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 ...

Chess-Nakamura criticises FIDE's anti-cheating measures at Candidates tournament, victory hopes fade away

April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has criticised the International Chess Federation (FIDE) over what he ...