Re:The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
by dhikapow on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:47PM
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There's a big difference between "[if you're not a GM by age 14], it is unlikely that you can reach the top levels of chess." and "..then don't bother, it's hopeless". The former statement is perfectly valid, nobody saying that it's hopeless
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Re:The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
by quadrifoliate on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:57PM
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> nobody saying that it's hopeless
Well, it's a report about cheating which is essentially claiming that if you're not a GM by age 14, then you must be cheating. Which is...kind of the same thing.
Re:The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
by burnished on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:38AM
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It literally does not say that. What do you want them to do? Leave out all the weird or suspicious stuff so that some other commenter will swing by and complain that they didn't analyze it?
The conclusion of their report is repeated several times; no evidence of OTB cheating.
Re:The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
by quadrifoliate on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:44AM
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> Leave out all the weird or suspicious stuff so that some other commenter will swing by and complain that they didn't analyze it?
I don't think any serious commenters are going to complain about the absence of stereotypes about "the greats" unbacked by statistical analysis. That is what is bad. The actual analysis of anomalously fast progress at equivalent ages is fine.