Louis (USA), withdraws from the tournament and accuses Niemann, without evidence or solid evidence, of having cheated. Carlsen loses to Niemann in the 3rd round of the Sinquefield Cup in St. That curious relationship between the two would have been private without the soap opera scandal that has filled so many pages and minutes of radio and television since last September 4. And maybe that’s why I managed to get him to respect me and get along.” When we met, I beat him almost every quick game we played. So much so that he reminded me of Kárpov, whom I also trained for a certain time”, recalls Dlugy in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel, the first granted, on the advice of his lawyers, since Carlsen lit the fuse of the scandal.ĭlugy also remembers the most conflictive part of Niemann’s character, who had previously been a student at a school for the gifted in the Netherlands: “He was very disrespectful to his rivals, especially after beating them. He convinced me that he was exceptionally bright. He applied exactly what I had taught him. ![]() He met Niemann when he was 11 years old, was his coach until he was 14 (via Skype, because Hans lived in California) and then a kind of mentor: “When Hans was 13 years old, I saw how he destroyed an international master. ![]() Dlugy was an elite grandmaster, especially in the blitz mode (five minutes per player for the entire game) in which he even beat Gary Kasparov once.
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