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ARTICLE · 03 NOVEMBER 2022

(Another!) Litigation From The World Of Chess

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This post is about the recently filed defamation case brought by a 19-year old American chess player named Hans Moke Niemann against world champion Magnus Carlson...

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This post is about the recently filed defamation case brought by a 19-year old American chess player named Hans Moke Niemann against world champion Magnus Carlson and several other defendants alleging that Niemann was defamed by allegations that he has cheated at chess tournaments.

As an aside, this is at least the second recent lawsuit to come out of the world of chess. In 2021, a chess player from (the country of) Georgia named Nona Gaprindashvili, at one time the women's world champion, sued Netflix claiming that she had been defamed by the television series "Queen's Gambit" because the show included a line stating that Ms. Gaprindashvili had never faced men when she had, in fact, played several male champions. After Netflix failed to have the claim thrown out via an early motion to dismiss, the parties settled the case.

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