A hand moves a piece across the chess board during the Werner Ott Open of the Kreuzberg Summer at the Berlin Kreuzberg Chess Club.
Photo: Andreas Gora/dpa (Photo by Andreas Gora/picture alliance via Getty Images) The American teen chess sensation at the forefront of a cheating scandal in the sport was accused of cheating dozens of more times than he previously admitted.Hans Niemann had been accused in recent weeks of cheating during matches.
The accusations came to a fever pitch when Magnus Carlsen, one of the world’s best chess players, withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup after losing to Niemann and later resigning from an online match against him after one move during the preliminary round of the Julius Baer Generation Cup.Niemann, 19, said he cheated at an event when he was 12 and again in "random games" at 16.
He’s said he never cheated during a livestreamed game. As unsavory accusations arose about how Niemann may have cheated, he still managed to compete in the Generation Cup — an event that Carlsen ultimately won.On Monday, Niemann was found to have cheated more than he previously admitted.Chess.com — an online platform in which anyone could play the game and study the rules and strategy — shared a report of their investigation with the Wall Street Journal.