News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Checkmate: Cheating Detection. Parent comment

Re:Checkmate: Cheating Detection by rgoulter on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:26PM (#32929182)
Carlsen's acting with strong compulsion that Niemann is a cheater.

Withdrawing from a round-robin and losing a game on purpose are quite strong indications of this.

It's obviously a bad situation for the chess world. ... But, I think if you strongly believe cheating is going on without being addressed, protest seems an entirely understandable.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Checkmate: Cheating Detection by roflyear on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:37PM (#32929396)
That still does not mean what he's doing is the right thing to do.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Checkmate: Cheating Detection by return_to_monke on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:23PM (#32930179)
Yes! This isn't the middle ages anymore. To accuse someone, you'd imagine that they would actually lie up evidence that he is cheating. This seems like a weird witch hunt.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Checkmate: Cheating Detection by LodeOfCode on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @04:11PM (#32930878)
Nit: the literal witch hunts were mostly after the end of the middle ages
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Checkmate: Cheating Detection by return_to_monke on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:25AM (#32960990)
True! Didn't consider that. New age doesn't sound that cool tho.
[ Parent | on HN ]