St. Louis, Missouri - Chess player Hans Niemann just responded to Magnus Carlsen and the chess community's aggressive cheating accusations against him with a massive $100 million lawsuit.

It looks like Niemann isn't playing games when it comes to his reputation, as the 19-year-old just slammed Carlsen, his company Play Magnus Group, Chess.com, it's executive Daniel Rensch, and chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura with a $100 million lawsuit for slander, libel, unlawful group boycott, tortious interference, and civil conspiracy.

The lawsuit came in the wake of Carlsen's "unprecedented" forfeiting move when he faced off with Niemann at the Julius Baer Generation Cup after losing to him at the Sinquefield Cup on September 4 – a match he later accused Niemann of cheating during.

Since then, Carlsen and other prominent figures and organizations in the chess world, like chess mentor Maxim Dlugy and Chess.com, have come out blasting Niemann with additional cheating accusations. Now, Niemann is claiming that not only were their accusations false, but they also cost him his life.

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The American chess prodigy, who many love to hate and vice versa, announced the hefty 44-page suit on Twitter by simply writing, "My lawsuit speaks for itself" while also tweeting out a direct link to the newly filed court docs.

In the suit, Niemann states that he's suing Carlsen, Play Magnus, and Chess.com (which acquired Play Magnus in August) to "recover from the devastating damages that Defendants have inflicted upon his reputation, career, and life by egregiously defaming him and unlawfully colluding to blacklist him from the profession to which he has dedicated his life."

Niemann's fiery accusations against the defendants to reclaim his respected name didn't end there, either.

Niemann believes that Carlsen, who's been dubbed the "King of Chess," thinks he can do whatever he wants in the chess world and get away with it, such as spreading cheating falsities rather than accepting defeat. Per the lawsuit, Niemann thinks it was because of Carlsen's inability to cope with defeat" that led him to retaliate in such a defamatory way.

"Unable to accept the reality of his unexpected loss, Carlsen reflexively retaliated by defaming Niemann to Michael Khodarkovsky, the Executive Director of the Grand Chess Tour, falsely accusing Niemann of cheating during their game and demanding that Niemann be immediately disqualified."

However, Niemann's lawsuit notes that the Grand Chess Tour director refused to comply with Carlsen's request, citing he had "absolutely no evidence" that Niemann cheated.

the lawsuit also claims that "numerous chess officials and cheat-detection experts have thoroughly examined the facts and circumstances and repeatedly confirmed that there is absolutely no basis to believe that Niemann cheated in his match against Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup."

Specifically, the suit name-dropped the Sinquefield Cup’s Chief Arbiter Chris Bird, and the executive director of the Saint Louis Chess Club Tony Rich, both of whom separately stated there was no indication of cheating during Niemann's upset victory over Carlsen.

As for the other defendants named in the suit, Niemann claimed that Chess.com was colluding with Carlsen and Play Magnus, a company Carlsen owns, by immediately banning Niemann from its website and all of its future events to further support "Carlsen’s unsubstantiated and defamatory accusations of cheating."

Niemann claims that Daniel Rensch, a Chess.com executive, acted in collusion with Carlsen by issuing "defamatory press releases and leaked defamatory 'reports' to prominent press outlets, falsely accusing Niemann of lying in his post-match Sinquefield Cup interview regarding his use of a 'chess engine'" when he was younger.

Niemann then alleged defendant Nakamura, a grandmaster, and Chess.com's most prominent streaming partner, acted in collusion with Carlsen by publishing hours of video content "amplifying and attempting to bolster Carlsen’s false cheating allegations against Niemann with numerous additional defamatory statements."

Niemann's suit goes on to say that "despite the falsity of Defendants’ accusations, Defendants’ malicious defamation and unlawful collusion has, by design, destroyed Niemann’s remarkable career in its prime and ruined his life."

Hans Niemann is seeking a trial by jury to determine how much – if any – he is owed by the defendants as the chess player hopes to put some respect back on his name.