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Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat (www.bbc.com)
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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.

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, chess.

Always kept relevant, even when it isn’t. 😊

Always. -.-

[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it was big news a while back, this has bounced back into the headlines thanks to Piers Morgan's shit stirring and the killer comeback from Niemann.