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An explosive leak is rocking the world championship of... chess?
Yesterday, as grandmasters Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi faced off in game eight for the chess world’s top title, someone on Reddit noticed that the exact position on their board had recently been reached by an online account.
Now, the entire chess world seems convinced that they’ve found Liren’s secret online prep account, revealing his planned attacks and defenses to Nepomniachtchi ahead of their remaining games. “This is a huge, huge blow in terms of the overall match strategy,” grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura said in a video yesterday.
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