[jokabrink]

Two peculiar side notes here:

1) The first three and only moves of this game at Julius Bär Generation Cup with Niemann as white is the same opening as the first controversial game (2022-09-05) at the Sinquefield Cup but with flipped sides (Magnus white).

2) Chess.com, the organization that decided to ban Niemann [1] sometime between these two games based on his online play behaviour on that platform, just bought Play Magnus (a competitor to chess.com that Magnus formed) less than a month ago and is in the state of merging. [2]

- [1] https://twitter.com/chesscom/status/1568010971616100352

- [2] https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-playmagnus

[nottorp]

Then I guess he's not allowed to disparage his buyer by the sales contract, or something like that. And probably won't be for some years.