Magnus Carlsen performed as close to a table flip as you can get, closing his stream and walking away from his opponent on his second move of the match.
The chess world has been hit by a number of scandals. The rise of young chess players like Niemann likely has more to do with the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and how players are learning the game to keep up with it.
During the early part of the Julius Baer Generation Cup, the match was played on a virtual chess platform called Chess 24. As soon as Carlsen left, Peter Leko exclaimed, "What, that's it?" Leko said he was speechless after being told that the grandmaster had gotten up and left.
Chess grandmasters are known to be eccentric, but leaving after the second move seems to take the cake for chess drama.
We reached out to Carlsen through his father and manager, but they didn't reply immediately.

It followed a drawn-out and increasingly insane cheating scandal that was boiling in the chess scene.
Carlsen had previously withdrawn from the tournament in order to face fellow master Niemann, and later posted a short video meme of a soccer manager saying "if I speak, I am in big trouble." There was more than one suggestion from chess analysts that Niemann had some assistance.
How would he know that? The internet conspiracy machine hit its stride when that happened. According to Slate, chess enthusiasts and lay people spread the rumor that Niemann could have been using vibrating anal beads to move his chess board. The world's richest man, who is always ready to butt in when there's butt-related humor to be had, spread the joke in order to distract him from his legal battle.
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Niemann told reporters that he didn't care if they wanted him to play in a box with no electronic transmissions. I'm here to win Since admitting to cheating when he was younger, Niemann has not done anything like that.
Kenneth Regan, a chess researcher from the University of Buffalo, said in a stream on Chess 24 that there is no evidence of cheating from Niemann, even though he has performed over average.
The Atlantic's report on Saturday seemed to offer a more likely answer to the questions that chess players are asking. The ability of chess programs to surpass human ingenuity on the classic checkerboard is what has made it possible. The best chess systems can beat the best human players in most of the games they play.
Younger people getting into the game are more apt to memorize opening moves and figure out the best way to play the game if they watch the game. Chess has all the other aspects of human-on-human play in it.
During his interview, the University of Buffalo's Regan said as much as he could.
The quality of chess players has become a little higher. Lewis Carrol wrote in his book Alice in Wonderland that he had to run faster just to stay in the same place.