The chess cheating scandal has been trending since early September. It has wider implications going well beyond a sport, even a sport popular enough to be played by over 600 million.
World champion Magnus Carlsen lost a game to American teenager Hans Moke Niemann in the Sinquefield Cup at St Louis (US) on September 4. Carlsen then withdrew from the event, offering a mysterious quote from soccer coach, Jose Mourinho, “If I speak I am in big trouble” as explanation. On September 19, Carlsen played Niemann again, in the Julius Baer Generation Cup. Or rather, Carlsen didn’t play, resigning the game
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