It’s the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about.

Accounts vary as to how exactly a chess game between King Canute the Great and one of his most trusted Viking chieftains, Earl Ulf, went down, in 1026, but certainly cheating was involved, and for at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World champion Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen explicitly accused Hans Niemann of cheating in chess matches. Former grandmaster and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watch: Magnus Carlsen quits Niemann rematch after one move Chess champion Magnus Carlsen has spoken for the first time since ...

Remember the anal bead cheating controversy? As much as I’d like to forget, it turns out that a lot of people are still thinking about it. Some chess players have reported an uptick of computer-aided ...

A cheating scandal has erupted in the staid and serious world of chess. When a second-tier chess player twice beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen, a Norse titan whom no one ever beats, chess ...

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Sneaking off to the bathroom with your smartphone to check the best way to beat your opponent is probably the worst move you can make in a game of chess, but that’s the accusation being leveled at ...

World champion Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen explicitly accused Hans Niemann of cheating in chess matches. Former grandmaster and chess analyst Maurice Ashley said chess has now entered its "steroid era" ...