The Queen's Gambit is being blamed for the rise of online cheating at chess

The Wall Street Journal

"In the year when everyone went online to play chess online, and even went online to watch a TV show about chess, players developed a nasty new habit. They started cheating at chess online," reports The Wall Street Journal's Joshua Robinson and Andrew Beaton. "As newbies and grandmasters alike flocked to platforms like Chess.com and Lichess in 2020, administrators noticed a surge in suspicious activity unlike anything they had ever seen. So they turned to a group of nerds with expertise so obscure that there are only a handful of them on the planet: the chess narcs."