US teenager Hans Niemann’s shock victory over world chess champion Magnus Carlsen this month might have been celebrated as the big-league arrival of a new force in the ancient game of strategy.
Instead the match, which ended a 53-game unbeaten streak for the Norwegian who is regarded as the greatest player of all time, has sparked bitter accusations of cheating, protests, legal threats and wild conspiracy theories amplified by Tesla’s Elon Musk involving insertable sex toys.
The furore began when Carlsen, 31, withdrew from the tournament in St Louis after his loss and tweeted a video of football manager José Mourinho saying: “If I speak, I’m in big trouble, and I don’t want to be in big trouble.”
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