Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Critic of chess grandmaster found dead was caught up in a cheating scandal of his own

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...
The New York Times

Did Cheating Accusations Have Anything to Do With the Death of a Chess Grandmaster?

Daniel Naroditsky, a top American player with an online following, was found dead in Charlotte, N.C., after talking about being accused of cheating by a former world champion. By Jesse McKinley Dylan ...
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A young chess star’s death, cheating accusations and a sport in turmoil

The final live stream of Daniel Naroditsky’s life had been broadcast for nearly two hours when the chess grand master put his head in his hands. His followers watched in silence. The 29-year-old ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB Reporter

According to legend, the inventor of chess gave his game to the Sultan of India in exchange for a rice grain that would double progressively for each of the board’s 64 squares. It was a cheat. No one ...
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Tragedy of a young grandmaster accused of cheating in chess by childhood hero

The death of a young grandmaster accused of cheating by one of his childhood heroes has once again raised the spectre of fraud in the so-called Game of Kings. Daniel Naroditsky, 29, was a pioneer in ...