The Greatest Chess Scandal

by Frederic Friedel
4/26/2023 – Hulu's Impact X Nightline is a weekly news magazine offering hard-hitting investigative reports, deep dives on stories in the news cycle, profiles of newsmakers, and celebrity interviews. Unfiltered, straight to the source reporting on the stories you're talking about and the ones you soon will be. This week, episode 24 is all about chess.
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The latest episode of "Impact x Nightline" takes a look at the ongoing scandal in the chess community. "Checkmate: The Great Chess Scandal" is now streaming on Hulu. Here's the trailer:

Here's a full abcNEWS description of the report, and here's a Wall Street Journal summary of the events that led to the scandal: 

Or maybe you prefer a summary from the ever charming Andrea Botez, who covers the story from start to 100 million dollar lawsuit finish in this video:

Readers who watches the Hulu Impact Nightline film are welcome to share their opinion.

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Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.

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