The craziest chess story is actually you avoiding a chessboxing match against me

“No one has got away with (cheating) at a high level”. BUT if they had got away with it, you wouldn’t know, would you….? 🤔

I just started hearing about this whole thing (I'm not really a chess player, but just someone who likes the game and watches educational videos now and then). I'm so glad to have come across this video, I was only getting bits and pieces of the story here and there beforehand. Thank you, very well done! With some nice comedic touches :)

Start doing mini expose type pieces like this outside of chess, grow your brand...you tell a story very well, I would tune in for other stories but do it just like this

Bobby Fischer’s peak rating is 2895 - he never got a 100% accurate game. Garry Kasparov’s peak rating is 2856 - he never got a 100% accurate game. Hans Niemann’s peak rating is 2688 - and he has had 10 games with 100% accuracy. One of those games was 42 consecutive perfect moves, and it was not a blowout type of game either. Doing that is pretty much impossible. Hans is 19 years old with 10 perfect games already, Magnus (peak rating 2882) is 31 and has had only 2 perfect games in his whole career. People that don’t think this is at least credible evidence are incredibly naive.

This was so funny. “This was not the only thing Hikaru said”. Had me laughing quite hard, this whole satirical telling haha. Two thumbs up

4:34 the fake accent cracks me up everytime.

I'm a full-time professional magician/Illusionist, mind reader. I am also chess player. Cheating in a high-security tournament would be easy for me and my friends at the top of the magic business. Just sayin... the chess groups should hire us to watch over live tournaments. They are definitely missing potential technologies for passing data. In fact, wow there are numerous methods to use technology there are also brick-and-mortar methods combined with technology that are almost invisible to just about everybody other than absolute experts in the magic industry. ( I'm totally serious. So if somebody to reach out to discuss this further would be glad to)

Good job Andrea for showcasing this story in such a way that won't get you sued!

Andrea sarcastically sipping the tea is comedy gold 😂

Did Hans cheat? - yes Do we have a proof - no

Long story short: we don't know if he cheated but everything points toward that.

This is a fantastic breakdown of exactly what happened step-by-step. A lot of news outlets don’t quite understand all the nuance of the story like you do because you’re in the chess community, you personally know these guys, and you understand the details. Really well done, Andrea!

This is truly one of the chess stories in the history of chess.

This was incredibly well shot, edited, and delivered. Please give us more content like this! The end was hilarious 🤣

it makes sense he would take this to court seeing that apparently there is no concrete evidence to justify the decision to ban him and he's taking advantage of that, though i suspect foul play. i hope the truth comes out, whatever it is.

Andrea should host a chess news show.

Andrea rejected Hans Hans - enters into villan arc

The fact that Hans winning ten perfect games is not beyond the realm of possibility will win him the lawsuit. Without proof, they all defamed him.

Andrea, you did a great job covering this. You are a natural broadcaster, that was professional quality that people twice your age can't pull off sometimes, well done! great job!

I was worried that this would be a bad look for Andrea because of her knowing Hans personally and all, but I loved how concise , to the point and fun it was to watch this. I think she should do more video commentaries, it suits her!

Andrea is so much better like this than her hyper crazy antics. This is a fantastic format for her.

You often like to be silly in videos, but I think this presentation indicates that you have on-screen talents that can lead where you seek success, whether as a chess commentator or broadcast news. Cool stuff, I've followed this since the beginning since I followed the tournaments - but I was looking for a video I could share with my non-chess-playing friends, and you are the one, Thank you so much!! kev

Someone did an experiment with a chip being in a shoe. It was actually confirmed that a chip in a shoe can be undetected by metal detectors. Makes sense why airports require you to take off your shoes.

Hans going out on a date with Andrea speaks for itself.

She's half right. Cheating is difficult to prove. But the security measures are so behind that we don't even know how easy it may be to cheat on most tournaments.

I need to watch the next stream immedialy. Andrea being this calm for a whole 12 minutes is.... Please stream soon lmao XD

This was very professionally created and presented, better than most newscasters! I hope we see more of these short 'reporting the important news from chess' in the future!

This was great. You should do more breakdowns like this. Current chess drama, historical chess drama...it would be great.

Andrea is the chess journalist that we don’t deserve but the one we need. :) The ending of the video was excellent!

bro i dont understand, how do you use a cheat engine in a boardgame(irl), like how does it works? vibrating when sees a good move? i dont understand pls tell me

When people say Hans says he hasn't cheated since he was 16, they should provide the context that he's still only 19. It's not like it was ages ago.

Andrea is always funny but she's well spoken as well.

Needed this summary... Great job!

hm a good wrap up about the situation in a pretty short time. Well done!

This nicely summed the whole story up, saves me watching 20 videos to know everything now :)

$100 million dollar lawsuit...A Million for Each Time he was caught Cheating LOL

You cheat once, you're a cheater. Reputation gone by character judgement. Even if you don't cheat later, no-one believes you.

I'm sure that he cheated. No way he managed to play 100%accuracy with so much stress involved, when the two greatest players of all time never managed to. He's not even at Kasparov's level!!!

His rapid rise in ranking makes me question his abilities and how it came to be. I'm not a chess player but it piqued my interest in playing.

I just started learning chess a week ago from seeing your Lex interview. I'm getting annhilated every single go. But i'm addicted and i love it.

6:03 The Special one does end up appearing everywhere doesn't he? 🤣🤣

11:24 "My lawsuit speaks for itself". 😂 what a legend

Nicely done Andrea! Informing, funny and good pace!

I like How Andrea stayed unbiased here even tho she know Hans for ages & his friend! And She know Magnus too but still stayed unbiased

Andrea should do an in depth investigative video showing if and how those beads could work

I wasn't sure - but the way that he talked through the game, not being specific and being very abstracted and vague - just shouts 'CHEAT"

The most professionalism I've seen from Andrea. Jokes aside, this was a great summary.

i feel like i've read and seen *way* too much about this story already but i still watched this, great storytelling andrea

2:01 dude thinks he's a main character in an anime 🤣

All beads aside, isn't Hans still owed a date with Andrea?

I am very impressed by how objective, concise and informative this video is. Great job!!!

Andrea's voice sounds very nice when she is not yelling :D

how it can be marked as "cheating scandal" if we are not even able to prove it 🤨

When you can't win, just destroy the opponent 😆😆

Looks like that date with Hans went quite serious. Anyways brilliantly uncovered the story with least amount of bias, someone needed to make this kind of video.

Always wanted to know what the full story is about this issue, and this is exactly what i needed :P

Having suspiciously perfect accurate games, without having the ability to explain your moves to an interviewer is more than enough to me… and for Magnus for that matter. Hans is a criminal mastermind who is able to cheat over the board bypassing all security measures… but he’s certainly cheating for the aforementioned reason above.

once a cheater, always a cheater

Do more things like this, Andrea, I would never in a million years have thought you would be good at something like this as you for some reason like to have your inside voice set to 100. But a calm and collected Andrea, Absolutely Fantastic

7:04-7:30 I knew Andrea's response was coming, but it was still hilarious 😂

Unsurprisingly, you have a cunning way of mixing in some humor to this very serious story. Thanks for the summary and I hope you do updates.

What's up with the faux camera-shake in the punch-ins?

Well spoken, well structured.. you are getting serious, Andrea. Thanks

As someone on the very outer fringes of chess, I would like to say that that was very informative and very well done.

1:19 “To this day, no one has gotten away with it at the top level.” A bit tautological, no? If we knew someone had ‘gotten away with it’, they wouldn’t have gotten away with it?

Jose Mourinho in between made it more funnier

This story is the best. I knew all that stuff but Andrea did such a good, concise, compelling job that I had to listen again.

Andrea you need to make more videos like this hahaha so good!

His comments on looking at an opening before a game then it coming up happens often..

That Wesley guy is defending his name "Wesley...SO?!"

The defaymation case speaks for itself

OMG i love the way you present things, i think you would be a great presenter!!!

The craziest chess story is him beating you and you ghosting him for the date

I am not familiar with this game. However, as a scientist, I believe it is the obligation of the one proposing the hypothesis to prove it. First, no one (to the date of this video) has shown how Niemann is supposed to have cheated. There was mention in the video of using an "engine", presumably some form of AI to provide optimum moves. How he was using an engine while sitting at a table in full public view after going through tighter body searches than at airports on Sept 12, 2001 is never explained. Maybe somebody has some ideas, however, nothing came up in the video nor the comments that I've seen. The narrator says that Carlsen had a bad game (for a grand master). To me, this looks like a game between the Bengals and the Chiefs. The Chiefs are a better team, but played badly that day, so the Bengals won. Some days you just lose because you didn't play well. It is peculiar how Niemann qualified his answer to the cheating question, though. He has never cheated in an "over the board" game? So, has he cheated online? That's like saying I've never cheated on my wife with a blonde.

I think you meant "5 championship matches in a row", not "5 years in a row".

No new information for me. I really loved that you didn’t “ forgot” any detail, because, details really matters. You we’re honest and not bias to any side. Good job Andrea! Loved every second! ( the one thing I don’t understand on this all storyline is, if Magnus thought that Hans was a cheater in Saint Luis how didn’t he had the same point of view 10 days earlier in Miami and played him like nothing is wrong!??? Can someone please have a theory!????? I’m dying here!!!!)

The reason no one has been documented to get away with cheating at the top level is bcuz they weren’t caught 💀

Thanks for presenting the story end-2-end so clearly!

There's an inaccuracy in the beginning of the video. In the FTX crypto cup it's true that Hans didn't score a single point but he also beat every single player in that tournament except Alireza. So, he didn't exactly get thrashed and he's perfectly capable of beating super grandmasters in a game.

I wonder how it is we know that no one has cheated in over the board games and got away with it. Head hurts.

It would be nice to see them play chess boxing against pro boxers. Pro boxers vs GMs

It is not how perfect your move is but your tactics or strategy. War in the board could be liken to a war in a battlefield where there may be wrong places for the right unit or wrong unit for the right places but does not affect the total out come of the battle because most of the tactical or strategic moves are in right places hence some blunders may be compensated by a strong move or tactics. In Chess a Tal-like sacrifice could be imprecise but it does the work or purpose still.

Another great video! I love these non Chess playing videos , I hope you keep doing more!

Excellent video. Much more valuable than the usual trash talk blitz recordings.

Thanks for the info my dear

1:25 maybe they have how would you know💀

If Hans is legit I hope he wins, but if he's not, I hope he loses EVERYTHING.

Wow this was actually a brilliant video. full of relevant information, presented well, some lighthearted jokes that were fitting, to be completely honest, i did not expect this. most recent videos on your channel (i'm just telling my personal view and dont want to offend) lean heavily into the clickbait/look at this girl niche, but this was great. thank you.

I appreciate your keeping this PG. Great video.

I love how Andrea just pauses after a sentence and takes a sip of tea.

The $100 mil dollar figure is meaningless. You can sue for $1bil, but if you can't prove that your damages were in that range, then you won't get awarded the full amount if you win the lawsuit. The most he can expect to win would be the sum of all tournament winnings that he could've won from any tournaments he has been banned from, possibly revenue from publicity, and maybe income he might be able to claim from hikaru from exploiting and profitting off the defamation. Side note, I would love to watch more journalist videos from andrea, this was great!

I've followed the whole scandal but the commentary here is just great. Very witty and entertaining!

How can the chess world be literally on fire?

its distracting me that she won't turn her head towards the camera

Wow, the best summary we got from all chess creators

1:00 OMG "The chess world is LITERALLY on fire!" That is far worse than any cheating scandal. These people are on fire, or their boards are at least. Is no one going to put them out???

How would you know if no one has gotten away with cheating at the top level? If they got away with it, you wouldn't know they cheated.

Your 30sec videos are great and entertaining. Your LONGER videos are truly AWESOME, though, so keep them coming. :)

This is a good summary from Andrea, you can tell that the script is super careful to not say anything that they could get surf for, but to me, while the mathematical tools that show how insanely improbable so many of these events were and how not only has a boy with little sign of prodigy, after being coached by a known cheat, and cheating online regularly (believed to be around 100+ times) leaps to performing better than any person in history. Many games are at a level exceeding any player in history. Also, strangely, apart from an insane leap in performance during the few years since, unlike any other player at this level, he fails to continue to improve at all. Eg if you stack all players in history that are at that level we're prodigies at a very young age, showed genius and beating masters while under 10, then dedicated decades to gradually improving and even improving after hitting international level. Vs a known cheater, of mdoerate ability, skipping all prize games for 6 months and comes back as the best in the world and never improves since. Also, the post match interview showed an extreme lack of memory for the game just played and numerous statements of plays he considered, and most of those were losing options and he seemed to have zero awareness of this. Also, His gameplay over the board is highly erratic, dropping to his pre "miracle" level and then far exceeding the best players in the world. Also, he stated that he had prepped that particular extremely rare opening the day before in a miracle of luck. This open is so utterly rare, and Magnus has only ever played that open 1 time, when he was 7 years old. Many of his interviews also seem to contain very strange and mismatched / guilty sounding replies. The new accent. The cheating, then lying about it being only 2 games... I have been open to both options and if its a miracle - amazing. But just looking at this from a mathematical probability perspective, on balance I feel comfy that he is cheating. And I base that on the maths of the games. The chess speaks for itself.