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The James Altucher Show · 2026-06-02 · 61 min · 12,560 words

The Viral Chess Cheating Scandal with Anal Beads: Ben Mezrich Reveals the Full Story

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He had cheated numerous times online. To him it was no big deal. It was like, you know, everyone cheats online. And it's kind of funny when chess.com went back and his first instance of cheating online that they caught, the person he was playing against was also cheating. Magnus said something like, Nobody plays me like this.

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