The pro-chess world is wild right now: there's feuds, allegations of cheating, ADMISSIONS of cheating, bans, jokes about 'vibrating anal beads,' public statements, and more. At this point, you have to wonder if anybody is playing fair.
has expanded to include Maxim Dlugy, who happens to be a coach of Niemann’s. Email correspondence supplied tothat 56-year-old grandmaster Dlugy had twice received bans, in 2017 and 2020, for breaking their fair-play rules, both times making moves supplied by an outside source. In the earlier instance, he was receiving help from his own students , one of whom he assumed to be using an A.I. program on their phone.
Motherboard had followed up on a potential hint from Carlsen as to Dlugy’s checkered past: In a Sept. 21with chess24, Carlsen said, “I have to say I’m very impressed by Niemann’s play, and I think his mentor Maxim Dlugy must be doing a great job.” This unprompted name-drop set off new waves of speculation, and observers quickly realized that Dlugy had pulled out of two Chess.com tournaments, in 2017 and 2020 — potentially because, like his student, Niemann, he’d been caught cheating on the site.
As if all this weren’t enough, this week FIDE also had to contend with the fallout from sexist comments by Israeli grandmaster Ilya Smirin, who was making his debut as an English-language commentator during the Women’s Grand Prix in Kazakhstan. Smirin admitted on-air that he’d previously said chess is “maybe not for women,” praised a female grandmaster for “playing like a man,” and tangled with his co-host, the Woman International Master Fiona Steil-Antoni, over these inappropriate comments.
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