The True Story Behind Untold: Chess Mates

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess ...

Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport ...

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Chess Mates,' from the Netflix Untold series, digs a little deeper into the chess cheating scandal that created headlines around the world ...

Netflix Explores a Buzzy Chess Cheating Scandal

Untold,” a sports documentary series, recounts a notorious match between two grandmasters and the cheating accusations that rocked the chess world and beyond.
NBC New York

Critic of chess grandmaster found dead was caught up in a cheating scandal of his own

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...
Martin Cid Magazine

Chess Mates on Netflix exposes the power struggle that neither chess nor Carlsen could admit

Hans Niemann said it on camera, to a Netflix audience that will number in the millions. He said he will carry it for the rest of his life — ...

A young chess star’s death, cheating accusations and a sport in turmoil

The chess world has entered a dark chapter after the death of 29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky.