The Carlsen/Niemann fraud affair shakes chess. But the world association Fide is struggling to adequately investigate the issue. The examiners are still working on their report – and are annoyed by an online platform.
Klaus Deventer is a busy man these days. Not only that the lawyer and examiner for state exams still has a lot of uncorrected exams on his desk, as he says on the phone. Deventer, 64, is also part of the three-man investigative unit investigating one of the biggest chess scandals in history for the world chess association Fide. But the clarification of the dispute between world champion Magnus Carlsen, 31, and US grandmaster Hans Niemann, 19, is obviously difficult – and it becomes apparent how Fide is following the topic.
