Hans Niemann was accused of cheating after he beat Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen last September.

Morgan continued talking about claims that Niemann was getting signals from someone through the remote-controlled sex toy.

“To be clear, on the specific allegation - have you ever used anal beads while playing chess?” Morgan asked.

The 20-year-old replied: "Well, your curiosity is a bit concerning, you know - maybe you’re personally interested, but I can tell you, no.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ok I don’t actually follow chess, but wasn’t this a thing that wrapped up a while ago as a “no proveable misconduct” and he was again allowed to compete…?

    Or is this a different vibrating sex toy issue… (arguably worse…)?

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      More or less. There was a potential lawsuit in the works, but all parties came to an “amicable” agreement that they’d settle their differences in the court of public opinion. Nobody’s let on if there was any sort of settlement, but I doubt it.

      The whole “anal beads” theory was always just a meme that news orgs ran with to generate clicks. Somehow they’re still going with it, and I guess I’ll admit: I clicked.

      At least we get some gold from Hans:

      “To be clear, on the specific allegation - have you ever used anal beads while playing chess?” Morgan asked.

      The 20-year-old replied: "Well, your curiosity is a bit concerning, you know - maybe you’re personally interested, but I can tell you, no.