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Chess player Hans Niemann files $100M lawsuit

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Embattled chess player Hans Moke Niemann, 19, has filed a $100 million lawsuit amid a cheating allegation scandal.

Niemann has been accused of cheating in the wake of defeating champion player Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis last month.

Niemann alleges in the suit that Carlsen, Chess.com, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and others have colluded to blacklist him from the game.

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