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Re:Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess ... by ratg13 on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:21AM (#32808067)
No, but they reviewed his history after the accusations and found him to be lying and misrepresenting himself.

So, if we take chess.com at their word and he is lying, we have a person who is a "former" cheater, who is currently actively lying about the scope of their cheating.

It's not conclusive by any means, but this is a far cry from "nothing to see here"

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Re:Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess ... by addicted on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:45AM (#32809292)
Chess.com must be really struggling for money if they have to wait for a non accusation of OTB cheating to run their anti-cheating algorithms on a player’s games.

Which they obviously aren’t. Which means that they have found nothing new in the “review”.

The more obvious answer is that Magnus is pissed, and as a part owner of chess.com and biggest draw in tennis, chess.com wants his continued participation and so is kicking Hans out.

They may have justification for it, but it was clearly not enough of a justification to act on before Magnus decided to get all pissy on losing.

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