Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess scandal

Re:Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess ... by hellcow on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:43AM (#32808222)

Chess.com made a public statement after his comments, effectively saying he wasn’t honest and had cheated far more extensively than he had admitted. They banned him and said that they shared the evidence with him in private, and it would be up to him to respond to it.

So either chess.com is wrong, despite having a pretty good ability to detect cheating, or Hans is lying. I’m inclined to believe the latter.

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Re:Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess ... by addicted on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:34AM (#32809193)

Chess.com is also 25% or so owned by Magnus’s company.

Also, if chess.com had all this evidence why did they wait until after Magnus’s cryptic tweet to act on it? Do they only run their algorithms on games after Magnus makes cryptic comments on players playing the games?

The far more obvious reason is that they took these actions because they don’t want to potentially lose Magnus and his company’s involvement in the tournament.

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Re:Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess ... by RandomWorker on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:01AM (#32808852)

This didn’t make sense to me. His reasons for cheating were because he wanted to play higher rated players. However I’ve seen many rated players get up there on like 2 hours. He said he does nothing for two years but play. One side very patient, other very impatient..

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