“My lawsuit speaks for itself.” With that brief phrase, which follows an old joke that has ended fatally, Hans Niemann He posted on Twitter the lawsuit he has filed against Magnus Carlsen y Chess.com. He demands 100 million dollars for the damages caused by the platform after having published a devastating report in which they claimed that he had cheated in a hundred games online.
Niemann also denounces the world chess champion, who also branded him a cheat and has refused to play against him anymore, after being defeated in his last duel on the board. In live chess, the 19-year-old American has aroused many suspicions, but it has not been proven that he won irregularly.
The lawsuit claims that Carlsen and Chess.com inflicted “devastating damages” on Niemann by “defame him in an atrocious way” and “illegally colluding” to exclude him from the world of professional chess. The defendants also include Danny Rensch (one of those responsible for Chess.com), the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamurawho sided with Carlsen from the start, and PlayMagnus, the world champion’s company, which is in the process of being bought by Chess.com.
Niemann has filed his lawsuit just after the United States chess championship, in which he experienced another surreal episode, when a rival, Samuel Seviangrabbed his king for no apparent reason and broke his cross.
In their particular dispute, Carlsen even left an ‘online’ game after making a single move, one more way of pointing out his rival. Shortly after, he openly accused the American, who had only admitted to committing irregularities twice, in internet games, when he was 12 and 16 years old: “I think Niemann has cheated more and more recently than he has admitted publicly,” said the Norwegian.
malicious retaliation
Hans Moke Niemann now strikes back with his denunciation: “Infuriated that the young Niemann, 12 years his junior, dared to disrespect the ‘King of Chess’, and fearful that the young prodigy would further tarnish his multi-million dollar mark by beating him again, Carlsen took vicious and malicious retaliation against Niemann,” says the lawsuit filed by Niemann’s attorneys in the Eastern District of Missouri, where the departure took place.
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