Because the controversial year-ending World Fast and Blitz Championships, Hans Niemann has begun to assault Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura on social media. The assaults are primarily as a consequence of their 2022 chess dishonest scandal, which obtained additional triggered by Carlsen’s denims scandal throughout the Fast competitors and when he shared the Blitz title with Ian Nepomniachtchi.
India’s chess grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi gestures throughout a recreation.(AFP)
Now in his newest put up on X, previously often known as Twitter, Niemann revealed that he had challenged the likes of Carlsen, Nakamura and Arjun Erigaisi in matches, the place the winner would win 100k {Dollars}, however they declined.
He wrote, “After 3 matches in the Hans Niemann against the World Series I have tried to arrange matches with Erigaisi, Caruana, Nakamura, Carlsen, and Dubov. I offered Erigaisi and Caruana 100k to the winner (they put up no money), they have not accepted the offer yet. Chess should be like the UFC or Boxing. Pure meritocracy. I have no tournaments for the next 2 months and would happily play matches against any top player. Chess must evolve!”
Niemann, Carlsen and Nakamura have a protracted historical past collectively, which matches again to September 2022. Niemann and Carlsen took on one another of their third spherical fixture on the Sinquefield Cup. The World No. 1 crashed to a defeat vs Niemann, after which instantly withdrew from the competitors. In the meantime, Carlsen additionally accused Nieman of dishonest after their subsequent match meet-up which was a web-based occasion.
The Norwegian Grandmaster resigned after just one transfer. Then, in an interview, Niemann revealed he cheated in on-line chess as a toddler, however didn’t accomplish that within the match in opposition to Carlsen or in any over-the-board recreation. Carlsen had his personal response, as he launched a press release the place he accused Niemann of dishonest extra usually than he admitted. Niemann was additionally faraway from Chess.com, who additionally launched a report accusing him of dishonest in on-line video games.
FIDE investigated the matter and Niemann filed a lawsuit in opposition to Carlsen, his firm Play Magnus Group, Hikaru Nakamura and Chess.com chief officer Daniel Rensh for illegal collusion and defamation. The lawsuit was later dismissed and it was additionally revealed later that every one events concerned had settled, adopted by Chess.com reinstating Niemann on their platform. Additionally, Carlsen promised that he would play in opposition to Niemann, in the event that they had been ever paired.