Niemann has admitted to cheating online on chess.com before 2020, like at least 50 other titled players. Niemann has denied ever cheating over the board. After

Niemann has admitted to cheating online on chess.com before 2020, like at least 50 other titled players. Niemann has denied ever cheating over the board. After the win against Carlsen, chess.com removed him from one of their online tournaments, and a couple of chess.com adjacent streamers insinuated the online cheating. Under that pressure, Niemann mentioned a coordinated attack and admitted to to cheating at the age of 12 and 16, but not in prize money tournaments. To see how easy it goes online, here is a video of Carlsen taking a move from Howell during a prize money tournament in Lichess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrOv8hxN6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrOv8hxN6g It can't be compared to deliberately using an engine, but clearly the standards are different online. chess.com has announced that it will release an additional investigation into Niemann soon. The involvement of an online company into an OTB tournament is unprecedented and comes after the takeover of the "Play Magnus" group. chess.com also released a private cheating conversation with Dlugy, from whom Niemann had taken lessons a long time ago. So, out of the 50 cases only those who are "involved" in a win against Carlsen are being targeted. I assume that chess.com will keep the rest of the files for future "use". FIDE, the real official organization, is investigating as well but will probably not find any OTB cheating cases.