Niemann’s interview with Piers Morgan was his biggest blunder in recent memory

What happens when a young chess prodigy is accused of cheating after the biggest win of his career, and it turns out there was reason to suspect him? In Hans Niemann’s case, it led to lawsuits, an admission of online oopsies, a chess.com report alleging a hundred more instances of foul play, and the continued presence of a toxic cloud lingering over his head wherever he goes. 

Now comes an interview with Piers Morgan, an odd attempt at image rehabilitation which turned out to be, in chess terms, a massive blunder. How could anyone expect him to come out looking good from that hot mess, shrinking under the hostile glare of the interviewer with a lawyer sitting by his side?

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