Sha was an international student from South Korea studying cybersecurity. He was arrested after he called campus police to report Chheda’s death at 12.44am on Wednesday, Tim Doty, Purdue’s director of media and public relations, told the

Alexander’s girlfriend was wearing a bikini top from the brand  in the clip, which Alexander is the CEO of and who is the original poster of the viral video – leaving some to question if the moment was real or faked.

He initially protested his innocence amid speculation from Carlsen and the chess community that he had cheated in their game, admitting he had done so twice before as a youngster but had learned from his mistakes and vowed not to do it again.

However, any Overwatch accounts that are not linked to a Blizzard account will still need to link their account to a phone number, as will new players. The blog post says this measure help protect the community against cheating.

But Magnus Carlsen is not from the glittering world of showbusiness or Hollywood – he’s a chess player who happens to be the best in the world at what he does. Above: Carlsen with US actress Liv Tyler at the G-Star spring fashion show in 2011 (left); the chess superstar is seen topless on Instagram after a swim (right)

First announced at BlizzCon 2019, Overwatch 2 represents a big shift for the series. The sequel fully commits to a live-service, free-to-play model where the game continually receives new content, in the form of seasonal content with new heroes, new maps and major balance patches each season. This model is an attempt by Blizzard to fulfill the original promise of Overwatch.

Then Chess.com earlier this week published a lengthy report claiming Niemann had ‘likely’ cheated in more than 100 online games, including in several cash-prize tournaments – though had no evidence to suggest he’d cheated in over-the-board (OTB), in-person matches.

Incredible footage has emerged showing the moment the chess prodigy accused of cheating with vibrating anal beads was subjected to an all-over body scan with a handheld detector before a US championship game. 

The prize money on offer in top tournaments has helped to fuel cheating scandals in recent years. In 2019, Latvian-Czech grandmaster Igors Rausis was caught consulting a smartphone in a toilet to try to get an advantage. 

NEW: I talked to a friend of Varun Chheda, the student killed at Purdue. Andrew Wu says Varun was kind, smart and passionate. As for Varun’s roommate, now arrested for his murder, Wu says Varun never said much about him. Live reports coming on

There are certainly high stakes involved, despite chess’s ordinarily understated image. The Sinquefield Cup paid $87,500 (£77,500) to the eventual winner, whilst the upcoming Chess.com Global Championship offers an overall prize fund of $1million (£886,000) and will hand $200,000 (£177,585) to the victor. 

«I was kind of seeing my family there, and it’s a special moment to represent my country in the NHL at home in Prague,» Hertl said.»So, a lot of emotion, and it was just a special moment. I’m so proud I can be even here.»

Crowds gathered at the Rogers Centre on Sunday to watch the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Boston Red Sox, and while fans expected a great game, what they didn’t expect was to see a marriage proposal go south. 

Overwatch 2 server issues Launch day was rough for Overwatch 2. The game was hit by two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to Game Director Aaron Keller, exacerbating server stability issues that are common with new game releases. As a result, players were waiting in queues tens of thousands of people long just to get into the game, and once they were in, they were getting kicked out of matches and sometimes out of the server entirely — stuck back at the end of the queue.

‘We played games together all the time, video games, card games, you name it. Even hundreds of miles away, for the past four years in college we still kept in touch. We’d hang out six to seven times a week just to play games together,’ Wu said. 

The day after Overwatch 2 launched, a community manager posted a status update blog saying, «We have made the decision to remove phone number requirements for a majority of existing Overwatch players. Any Overwatch player with a connected Battle.net account, which includes all players who have played since June 9, 2021, will not have to provide a phone number to play.»

You can enable SMS Protect by logging into your Battle.net account, going to Account Details >Phone Number and entering your phone number. Click Continue and you’ll receive a verification code via text. Enter the code and your account will be verified. 

Some students said they heard Chheda’s distant screams throughout the building, but fellow student Andrew Wu heard him echo in his ear, he told Arunabh Sinha, a childhood friend of Chheda, further confirmed to that Chheda was playing with his friends and Pkvgames chatting through Discord when Sha allegedly killed him.