‘India treats players like superstars, while USA sabotages theirs’: Niemann

Hans Niemann sparked controversy by contrasting India’s robust support system for chess players with the alleged shortcomings of the American chess federation. This followed Divya Deshmukh’s historic FIDE Women’s World Cup win, celebrated with significant government recognition and financial rewards in India. Niemann suggests the diverging approaches will have clear consequences for chess talent development in the coming years.