<Later that night, after the party, Mr. Ramirez led the 16-year-old back to his room, she said, and undressed her on his bed while she was visibly drunk. At that point, she added, he attempted to have sex with her, but she refused. He then initiated oral sex, when she says she wasn't in a position to consent to.>

Attempted rape of a minor. If this is true, this guy belongs in prison.

I'll sign that.

<....The story will not end there, since the WSJ claims to have found evidence that both the USCF and the St Louis Chess Club knew of allegations against Ramirez. And...<Ramirez was nonetheless awarded the job of coach for the U.S. women’s team at the World Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India in 2022.>>

<In 2021, Greg Shahade, Ms. Shahade’s brother and a high-level player who organizes chess events, contacted St. Louis Chess Club and U.S. Chess to inform them of Mr. Ramirez’s alleged behavior, according to emails reviewed by the Journal. The email to the club included allegations involving girls as young as 15.

Two months later, a letter came back from a lawyer representing the club, acknowledging that it had heard about the allegations in October 2020. The letter said they weren’t aware of any inappropriate conduct by Mr. Ramirez. It further said that the club wasn’t the proper party to review and investigate the matters he raised.>

Interesting that the St Louis Chess Club doesn't consider it its concern to review and investigate sexual assault accusations against one of its employees... An employee the club regularly put in close contact with women, including minors. Mr Sinquefield, get ready to pay out. Big bucks.

<Over the course of those years, Mr. Ramirez’s alleged behavior became an increasingly open secret, people in the game said, and caused some in the community to distance themselves from him. Chess.com, the popular platform for the game that also hosts events, hasn’t had a working relationship with Mr. Ramirez to write and play on the website since 2013, the company said, but internally agreed to not reconsider him for future work after first hearing allegations against him in 2019.>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeToo...

Nice coincedence that it comes from the same guy who was the first with the "we know you are guilty" look on his face.

https://new.uschess.org/news/us-che...

This is interesting: <Mr. Ramirez was selected as the coach of the 2022 Women’s Olympiad Team; however, as is standard practice for our Olympiad teams, that decision was made by the team independently of US Chess. >

The nonprofit reported spending more than $14 million in 2019, the latest available tax filing, and has been a major funder for U.S. Chess, which moved its offices from Tennessee to St. Louis last year. Ramirez was the organization’s highest-paid employee in 2019 with a salary of $143,524.>

Can't believe Hans wants to be some sponsored by some loco joco. Which could cause jealousy around the place. Is not it, Alejandro?

Long story short: Rex is calling the shots and used Hans to annoy Carlsen. Two birds, one stone. The Billionaire Walk, so to speak. They all fell for that trick.

Carlsen is personally too weak to deal with Rexy. Oh irony!

If youre then suggesting that money man Rex wanted to flex and allow an obvious and admitted cheater like Hans into the mix to run another cheater like Carlsen off who has since now abandoned the world title then, fine.