Ben Sides with the Truth, Not Who He Likes

#benfinegold #chess #hansniemann #magnuscarlsen

[ChristopherMikrowelle]

Who is Ben Finegold? To the blind, he is the light. To the hungry, he is the bread. To the sick, he is the cure. To the lonely, he is the company. To the sad, he is the joy. To the prisoner, he is the freedom. To the poor, he is the treasure. For me, he is everything.

[davewestner]

This is friggin comedy at its finesgoldest

[peterhavord]

Hans wants to be the richest chess player in history without ever playing another game

[johnnydoe]

I am more Interested in the Civil Conspiracy
Part of the Case. Clearly some Coordination
Happened behind the Scenes and i would
Love to See the Discovery. 😉☝🏼

[BoxingHacker]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that Yasser impression had me dieing lmfaoooo

[quimiq]

Every time I hear Yasser I wish Bob Ross was present at a court as a in-courtroom drawer, so we could see how happy little pawns live on a chessboard.

[SelectCircle]

Hans' lawsuit serves one purpose: It shuts everybody up for a while.

[sloppyjoes]

My takeaway is HIKARU IS REALLY NAMED "CHRISTOPHER"?!
Wow.

[kdub]

Hans cheated online in the past, and possibly lied about some of it. But Magnus presented no evidence of him cheating OTB (nor has anyone else), and the burden of proof properly lies with the accuser.

But _practically_ speaking, things get messy. Since Hans is the plaintiff in the suit, burden of proof lies with him (to prove defamation and damage). But more importantly, Hans's past, and the distinction between online and OTB, might cloud the issues with a jury and work against Hans. I can also imagine the defendants' lawyers arguing that Hans's own past behavior "defamed himself" and so there cannot be harm (or _much_ harm) from this matter. And so on...

[blakewalker]

If "Magnus" is worth a couple hundred rating points just for the name, well, I once played a grandmaster named Stephen Death. Yep. 1983 or 84. I was rated about 1500 so it didn't go very well.
It was 7 or 8 years before Bill & Ted had to play games against death but my friends still joked about whether I could only keep my soul if I won.
I wonder what his last name was worth for his rating?
Side note, when he introduced himself, he pronounced his last name so that it rhymed with "teeth". And he had an English accent. Not the fancy highborn one, but the goofier street urchin accent. With his kinda high voice, goofy English accent, and pronouncing it so that it rhymed more with "beef" than "teeth", it lost most of its scary impact.
I still lost.

[chapasproject]

wait hikarus real name is Christopher? hikaru is his mid name? 🤨 i will never look at him the same again!

[corasolagalar]

I guess Hans was playing against Sven Carlsen in the Sinquefield cup

[cortes]

They all say they don't settle as a matter of principle and they always settle.

[alanpierce]

Spot on Yasser. It's always some story hahaha.

[zed]

"I'm not losing to a guy named 'Sven'." LOL

[maciektrybuszewski]

Joking aside, the whole affair will be new for the court and it wont treat it as funny.

[WoJackHorseman]

"In 1972"... I lost it there 🤣🤣🤣

[thinboxdictator]

Isn't wasting federal court's time some sort of punishable offense?

[burt]

What would happen if somebody says: "I think he cheated, I have no proof so I don't know for certain, but that is what I think". Would that be defamation? Would you lose in court for saying something like that?

[TikTok_refugees]

The lawsuit is suing for I believe is 100, 000, 000. and a cheese sandwich!