Here's one other element of interest, involving Nemo's history.

There are allegations on Reddit that Nemo played in a rigged chess tournament in 2021, where she beat six superior players.

According to the poster:

Nemo (2102 rated) was 6-0 (6 wins, 0 losses) against 2300+ players winning every game in ~30 moves, and 2.5-5.5 (5 draws, 3 losses) against players rated < 2200.

Someone also pointed out this match, where a highly rated player resigned against her after 32 moves, despite being a favorite to win at that point.

Another Reddit thread discusses this, as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comme...ted_of_buying/

The general narrative is that a lot of these closed eastern European chess tournaments -- especially in Hungary -- feature excellent players who purposely throw the match, in exchange for behind-the-scenes bribes. This allows players to earn chess titles they otherwise could not achieve. It is alleged in these Reddit threads that Nemo engaged in this scheme in order to win a title in Hungary.


I am not an experienced enough chess player to comment on any of the above, but this is very suspect, from what I can see.

So it seems like rigged contests might not be a new thing to her.