(Reuters) - Norwegian chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and online platform Chess.com on Friday urged a U.S. federal court to toss a $100 million libel suit brought against them by U.S. teenage ...

Magnus Carlsen's brilliance over the board is unquestioned, but his repeated emotional outbursts are increasingly sparking ...

19-year-old Grandmaster Hans Niemann is suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and others for $100 million over cheating accusations. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of libel, slander, unlawful group ...

The chess cheating scandal brewing since September just reignited. Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old chess grandmaster, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, and others, for $100 million in damages. The ...

India’s top money earner when it came to prize money was Arjun Erigaisi, who pocketed a whopping $431,214 (approximately Rs 3 ...

(Reuters) - Hans Niemann, the teenage American grandmaster at the centre of an alleged cheating scandal, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, online platform Chess.com and others for slander and libel ...

Magnus Carlsen has been the biggest face of modern chess for more than a decade. In 2025, his money story gained more ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

Playing the black pieces in classical time format, Niemann beat Carlsen in 57 moves. Imagine a .500 NBA team beating Michael Jordan’s ‘95-’96 Bulls in Chicago by 20 points. Niemann’s win broke Carlsen ...

Hans Niemann, the 19-year old chess grandmaster, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, popular online chess platform Chess.com, among others, for $100 million in damages.

Nicole Clark (she/her) is a culture editor at Polygon, and a critic covering internet culture, video games, books, and TV, with work in the NY Times, Vice, and Catapult. The chess cheating scandal ...