- Niemann claims grandmaster was paid to shout ‘Cheater Hans’
- Allegations contained in latest legal submission from Niemann
Chess’s cheating scandal took another bizarre twist on Wednesday after the US teenager Hans Niemann accused world champion Magnus Carlsen of paying a fellow grandmaster €300 to scream “Cheater Hans” from a public balcony during a tournament.
The allegation is contained in an amended legal submission from Niemann, who is seeking $100m in damages from Carlsen, Chess.com and others for defamation, slander and “unlawfully colluding to blacklist him from the profession to which he has dedicated his life”.
