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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Jack Vening

For the love of god, please give us more cheating scandals

Hans Niemann looking worried at a chess board
The cheating scandal swirling around Hans Niemann is ‘the most exciting thing to happen in the chess world since Deep Blue tore out Garry Kasparov’s spine and held it aloft like Sub Zero in Mortal Kombat’. Photograph: Michael Thomas/EPA

Good lord, it’s been an eternity since we were last graced with a professional cheating scandal.

The world has become indescribably dull. Birds no longer sing. Children sit morosely in the dirt, crying out for another Irish dancing scandal. An unshining sun hangs awkwardly above us, like a huge yellow plate that’s too big to close the cupboard on properly so it has to live on the pan shelf.

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