{"id":73547,"date":"2026-05-15T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/chess-niemann-puts-controversy-aside-and-wins-50000-first-prize-in-warsaw\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:55:18","slug":"chess-niemann-puts-controversy-aside-and-wins-50000-first-prize-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/chess-niemann-puts-controversy-aside-and-wins-50000-first-prize-in-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess: Niemann puts controversy aside and wins $50,000 first prize in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US grandmaster scored biggest success of his career at the Grand Chess Tour Rapid &amp; Blitz and is close to world top 10<\/p>\n<p>Hans Niemann, the controversial US grandmaster whose game with Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup led to cheating allegations, a $100m lawsuit, an out of court settlement, the Netflix documentary <em>Untold: Chess Mates<\/em>, and a forthcoming book, scored the most important success of his career last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann, competing as a wildcard, won the $50,000 first prize at the Warsaw Rapid &amp; Blitz in Poland, ahead of the US champion and the world No 3, Fabiano Caruana, India\u2019s reigning world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, and the Candidates winner, Javokhir Sindarov. The event was part of the St Louis-backed Grand Chess Tour, which ends in August and includes the prestigious Sinquefield Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/15\/chess-niemann-puts-controversy-aside-and-wins-50000-first-prize-in-warsaw\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US grandmaster scored biggest success of his career at the Grand Chess Tour Rapid &amp; Blitz and is close to world top 10 Hans Niemann, the controversial US grandmaster whose game with Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup led to cheating allegations, a $100m lawsuit, an out of court settlement, the Netflix documentary Untold: &#8230; <a title=\"Chess: Niemann puts controversy aside and wins $50,000 first prize in Warsaw\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/chess-niemann-puts-controversy-aside-and-wins-50000-first-prize-in-warsaw\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chess: Niemann puts controversy aside and wins $50,000 first prize in Warsaw\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}