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Amid Cheating Controversy, the Chess.com Global Championship Is on Lockdown

• https://www.vice.com By Jordan Pearson

A chess tournament is not the kind of place where one would normally look for signs of controversy or the feeling of watching a top streamer carry a Call of Duty win. But, if you've been paying attention, you'd know that things haven't really been normal in the chess world of late. 

The 2022 Chess.com Global Championship in Toronto, Canada, kicked off on Wednesday and is the first in-person event put on by Chess.com in 4 years, and comes after it was sued last month by 19-year-old chess player Hans Niemann amid a cheating controversy (more on this in a moment).


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