> First of all, teenage murderers are regularly sentenced to life in prison

Maybe in USA. In Europe some countries even have special sentences for young adults (older than 18 less than 21). Here's for Germany:

"The maximum penalty for any crime committed by a person under 18 (or a young adult under 21 who is treated as a juvenile) is 10 years"

Fagin here, wondering what crime a child could commit that would get millions of dollars in resultant profit ...

He wasn't GM at 16. He was awarded the GM title last year. Why make up stuff?

He cheated online on a second rate chess site. Nobody has any explanations how he could do it over the board.

(Considering that people become more or less aware about their responsibilities and consequences of their actions at about 15 yo, he is now 4 times the responsible age he was at 16.)

> Nobody has any explanations how he could do it over the board.

If you believe this, its because you aren't looking. There's tons of explanations online of how it could be possible. Go look at /r/chess.

Tournament organizers and FIDE were pretty adamant that no cheating took place and that anti cheating measures were adequate.

They said no evidence was found, not that no cheating took place. (After all, it would most likely be very hard to detect.) And the anti cheating measures were upped after Carlsen quit; therefore they were not adequate in the first place.

If you decide to twist their statement this way, two can play the game. How about this: "No evidence was found that Magnus Carlsen was cheating. It does not mean no cheating took place in his championship matches."

Does that seem fair or reasonable to you? Sure no man can be as good as Magnus, he is clearly cheating in some clear undetected way, right?

To concede that cheating took place would mean that they had failed in their responsibility to stop it happening, and that somehow their method of detection only worked after the cheating was happening, rather than during or before.

For those two reasons, I think that any such "pretty adamant" statement can be discounted.

"random redditors say it!"

"nobody"