LOL...hard to cheat in one move. Or maybe his opponent opened by knocking over Carlsen's King?
Remember when Bobby Fisher claimed that Boris Spassky was making the neon light bulbs buzz so as to distract the American champion?
Crappy writing. Magnus accused him of cheating in a tournament, then the next time they played, in a different tournament, Magnus made a single move then quit in protest over the alleged cheating in the prior tournament. It was a bit of a kerfluffle.
“LOL...hard to cheat in one move. Or maybe his opponent opened by knocking over Carlsen’s King?”
No cheating in that game. He resigned in protest over possible cheating in previous games.
The alleged cheating took place in an earlier game against that opponent, which Magnus played out to a loss.
Magnus played a rare opening that day, and Niemann had clearly prepared a novel defense no one had used before.
The suspicion was that someone tipped off Niemann about the opening Magnus would use.
Niemann claimed that he just randomly prepared to face that opening, which really is hard to believe.
Also, this was not the first time players had suggested Niemann was cheating.
Nieman has made several brilliant moves without showing the intensity and stress that other great chess players would need to find an original over the board move.
He resigned after one move because he though Niemann had cheated in a previous game with him and wouldn’t play him.