Chessgate: Grand Master Magnus Carlsen may have opened a can of worms when he refused to play with Hans Niemann

The incident has put a spotlight on cheating in chess, and how rampant it may be ever since the global pandemic and lockdowns around the world led to a Big Bang level explosion of interest in online chess.

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