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Re:Dear Chess World by akudha on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:45PM (#32990090)
Lance’s case is interesting. Cheating is (was?) rampant in cycling. As Bill Burr joked “our roided up guy beat your roided up guy, what’s the big deal?”

I don’t think chess is as bad as cycling. Doesn’t excuse bad behavior, but gives some perspective

Re:Dear Chess World by jquery on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:02PM (#32998058)
And cycling became a punchline because of it. I think Magnus wants to avoid that fate for chess.
Re:Dear Chess World by akudha on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:32PM (#33001385)
Understandable. There is just too much money and fame in sports - people are going to try to cheat. It is upto the governing bodies to reduce cheating to a minimum, if eliminating it completely isn’t practically feasible.

I agree with other comments here who suggested zero tolerance policy. Cheat once and get banned for life. I remember as a kid, watching hours of cricket. Then I found out some of my heroes were fixing matches. I stopped watching that day. No fan wants to see cheats and match fixers and other bad characters. That is what politics is for!