A teenage chess champion has been sensationally accused of using anal beads to beat a grandmaster in a tournament. 

Hans Niemann, 19, beat world champion Magnus Carlsen but has been accused of using anal beads that use AI to vibrate and inform him of where best to move his chess pieces. 

“There is technology that exists; there are anal beads that vibrate on command wirelessly,” Anugraha Sundaravelu, Science and Tech reporter with the Metro, explained to Moncrieff.

“And also AI that can possibly tell you the right moves to make also exist.

“So it’s not completely impossible that such an application could have been used.” 

She believes the story is more a “joke online that has been blown out of proportion”. 

'I know I am clean'

Mr Niemann has admitted to cheating at chess as a child but has denied doing so this time and even offered to play his next game naked to prove the point. 

“If they want me to strip fully naked, I will do it,” he said. 

“I don’t care. Because I know I am clean.

“You want me to play in a closed box with zero electronic transmission, I don’t care. I’m here to win and that is my goal regardless.”

The silence of my critics clearly speaks for itself. If there was any real evidence, why not show it? @GMHikaru has continued to completely ignore my interview and is trying to sweep everything under the rug. Is anyone going to take accountability for the damage they've done?

— Hans Niemann (@HansMokeNiemann) September 7, 2022

His vanquished opponent, Mr Carlsen, has withdrawn from the chess tournament and tweeted a video of José Mourinhothat in which he said, “I prefer really not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble and I don’t want to be in big trouble.” 

“It must be embarrassing for the world champion to lose to an idiot like me,” Mr Niemann quipped in response. 

The chief arbiter of the tournament, Chris Bird, has said that “we currently have no indication that any player has been playing unfairly”.

Main image: Chess on a chessboard. Picture by: Alamy.com