Speculation has been wild. Elon Musk even tweeted about a conspiracy theory that Niemann had used a vibrating sex toy to relay the correct plays to him
Emil Sutovsky, director-general of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, chess’s governing body, said on social media that Carlsen had never quit before, no matter how his tournaments went.
Cheating scandals aren’t entirely unheard of in chess, although when it comes to games where two players are sitting right across from one another, it’s tricky and rare. Indeed, a perusal of the history of cheating in chess points out that rule violations are one example of cheating — if a player touches a piece, but then does not move that piece, it’s a rule violation.Article content
Other potential methods involve technology, such as secret communications that transmit a computer’s interpretation of the game to the player, giving them an edge over the human on the other side of the table.