‘Sjoemelschaker’ Hans Niemann learned the game in Utrecht: ‘Extremely smart boy’

‘Sjoemelschaker’ Hans Niemann, who is suspected of having cheated a hundred online games, learned the game more than ten years ago in the Netherlands. What started in a chess class at a special school for the gifted in Utrecht, led to the absolute world top. His former teachers still remember the bright boy well. “He was very fanatical.”

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