Cheating at Chess in Chicago?!?!?! 

You gotta apologise to alireza for what you did, you might have been mad at the heat of the moment, but what you said was rude and out of character. If you don't apologise, you will slowly know the consequences. Do the right thing.

Kramnik : Is someone… CHEATING ON CHESS ?

Hikaru :- Looking at the ceiling ⬆️ The cheater :- Looking at his lap⬇️

You know your law system is fucked when you have to fear naming the person who has been proven (unlike the Hans Niemann case) to have cheated because they could sue you. That's outright crazy, like "oh yeah, I did violate the fair play agreement but if you say that I did you're going to lose money". Where is the freedom of speech to address the wrong things someone has done.

Arbiter : I missed the part where that's my problem

" whu tf u think u r"😭😭😭

There are cameras streaming all of my 11 year old’s basketball games but we can’t do that at chess tournaments? 🤦🏻 FIDE should be ashamed

Hikaru on the road to become levy

Should've Attached the phone to the Ceiling

imagine being so pathetic, that you start cheating in chess

The fact that the player probably gets to keep his money makes this very interesting. I'm afraid that this incident may encourage people to try to cheat over the board.

Kramnik - hmmmm interesting its time for the activation of the procedure....

What's the point of cheating in chess? You don't achieve anything and you don't train nor learn anything.

Thanks for being real about Reddit, way too many people think that craziness is normal

What’s unbelievable is how long they got away with it but I can only assume it was the sheer brazenness of it that caught them by surprise 😂

How could you cheat?? No arbiter? Imagine looking below often when it's your move 😂😂

I sat next to him when he was caught at the Chicago open he was a 2000 playing in the u2100 for clarification

I play so bad that people thinks I am cheating to troll and disrespect my rival.

Thanks for covering this! It's been almost a month now. It is still unclear whether or not the five players who lost to the cheater are ever going to get their points refunded? The USCF rules of assuming he didn't cheat unless caught are absurd. It should be assumed that a confirmed cheater used the phone in the previous games as well!

A public apology is needed.

Stockfish is no longer on the ceiling. It’s on your pocket.

He played against AN ARBITER and pulled that stunt. unreal

Who tf does this guy think he is?

Can someone remind me who was the GM got adopted 5 times in a row in official competition and cried and cursing? Yes we all know who that loser is.

Statistics do work when you're caught

Reminds of Mike Postle with the poker cheating. Suddenly starts putting his phone between his legs, looks at it continuously, plays like a poker god. No-one would ask him what was on his phone or ask him to put his phone on the table like everyone else, really odd.

His results were 'interesting.'

Hikaru's reaction to reddit has increased my respect for him a bit

One person I played at a tournament actually just stole a pawn off the board to convert the entire position to a win for me to completely lost, told the arbiters, and they said unless someone had seen the pawn on the board, we had to play it as it was unless the other player admitted to it.

Oh, God, I'm NOT going to Reddit xD ! I love Hikaru, he's so based

Very disheartening that the cheater’s results stood for all other rounds and that it took 6 rounds for him to be caught!

Fun Fact: Bro thinks he's Hikaru.

This just screams 'cheat at chess until you're caught' because this guy essentially got away with it. He keeps his tournament winnings and nothing of merit is lost by him except he's known as a cheater who got paid.

Blindfold chess will expose any cheater.

Can someone explain how does a person cheat using their phone in a OTB game lol? Isn't it obvious that you're looking at the phone?

8:32 Reddit jumpscare!

One good way to handle this would be to have cams all over the tournament. So any particular game at any point in time could be reviewed.

8 minutes is crazy

Thanks Hikaru! Watching your content and doing puzzles has been a massive help!

Glad to see hikaru alireza problem has been resolved. Apologizing just makes him a bigger person. I hope hikaru recognises Alireza's win and appreciate it. He is still the beast of chess.

Amateur players should not win prize money, GMs struggle to compete against each others for prize money while a 1500 can win $5000. Stupid.

This is fraud! Remember what happened to that competitive fishing team recently caught “weighting” their catch after netting over 100k in tournaments. Call the cops, this dude has a Shawshank vacation coming.

Nah i think he was streaming

A cheater's chess speaks for itself.

this is so stupid..... this is F tier in cheating if ur gonna cheat.... like this is what people in elementary school do.... rookie move.

Kramnik "See i told you so!"

FWIW, if Hikaru made public insults and publicly humiliated others -- which he did -- then he should reconcile publicly, as well as privately. To be clear, he is under no obligation to do so. But if he doesn't, many people -- like me -- will absolutely see him differently moving forward. I almost unsubscribed last night, but I want to hold some space. I know what it's like to make a public mistake, and it's only fair to be given some patience and compassion, in the hope that one will put their ego aside and be socially responsible. It's unsettling knowing that Hikaru is capable of such immaturity, but hey, he's human. We all lose it from time to time, especially when frustrated or upset. It's really not the end of the world. And yes, some people may remain angry or vitriolic, but I am one who has learned to forgive and let live. I'm rooting for him to recover from this as much as I was rooting for him to win the Candidates.

11 seconds ago is harrassment

Dude stole over 40M (known, prob more unknown) with UB in poker and didn't have to return any money. It's not shocking.

All game have a trouble maker is cheater , what a dump.

Wait so the FGC runs opens tournaments better than chess? That's crazy.

Hikaru is a human being,. Let us forgive him..alireza deserve an apology.. But give hikaru a chance.

Kinda bogus that Dane took most of the credit when it was really Anuj that did most of the work and the one that spotted the cheating (phone in his lap) in the first place.

That is just lazy referees! Is a shame that the this dumb thing still happening and organizers are just lazy.

He does not just look down and play. He has to play the moves on his phone as well.

GM Hikaru , love your work. That outburst was a surprise.😅

How in the hell do you not get caught with your phone in your lap?!? Teachers must be actually crazy given how they see a kid look down for half a second at their lap and instantly know they have their phone out. Cmon guys we are better than this.

I dont know why ppl are so hush hush about cheaters name . Stan Halstead is the guy who cheated

Hikaru aggresively deleting comments about Alireza 😂

Hikaru has issues just like every other human being. I am glad that Hikaru has apologized to Alireza and I hope that this event will help Hikaru grow. Whether or not he is friends with his competitors is up to him, but I really hope it doesn’t cause any more drama as it is not needed no matter who is right or wrong.

I just started watching Hikaru and think he is really likeable. That reddit comment really added to that, haven't visited that dumpster fire in months.

Better call Kramnik

Some people use a phone in their lap, others are just too "exhausted" to play as scheduled.

These big opens, the tournament directors just don't care. I was a victim of this nonsense, only the opponent had a big binder full of all his opening lines, and just whipped it out like it was perfectly legal for the first 10+ moves. I went to the TD twice...they did not do a thing. In the big tournaments, the TDs only care about the open section. If you are in the class sections, you are on your own. It is all just a money making operation. They want to keep the titled players coming back, the rest don't matter. The lower levels don't turn in their scoresheets either, and rarely get them signed by the opponent. 3 times, I have had the opponent beat me to the sheet on the wall where you post the result, and put the wrong result...in their favor. I stopped going to those big tournaments.

Hikaru, don’t listen to the haters your a good person 👍🏽

i personaly dont care losing is part of chess

I think the reason the cheater was not named is because they were a minor.

Strongly Disagree, not only is Statistics a valid method, but its the best possible method. Yet Kramnik is not a Statistician, he is a Grandmaster with a calculator, He should stfu and get a Degree in Statistic, like the rest of us.

Just do security before the tournaments

Alireza, his dad, and his brother are all crazies!!!

Too bad they can't record every board from overhead and players from each side because video cameras are incredibly expensive and would need to be replaced at every single tournament! Maybe you can't catch a cheater in real-time, but you can later re-view every game they played! But I'd bet a super GM could verify 16 games in split-screen; just as long as he's beered up!

I wish we had a video of him, cheating, hilarious.

Eh, pull in some security experts from Vegas for a think-tank session and see what their thoughts are on setting up some sort of system that could be replicated and installed at tournaments. It probably comes down to number of cameras and positioning to capture angles of each game to allow for review after the fact. They probably can't have the unnamed cheater return money won because they can't prove he was cheating. They can say his play was suspicious enough to bar him/her from future events (as a private entity can do at their discrection), but don't have enough evidence to defend a case in court to have money returned. So camera footage on all games that can be manually reviewed after the fact can be like the last step in the process of proving someone was cheating (because that will probably be the most labor intensive part) after an engine determines that the player was playing outside of what would be considered normal for their rating.

so it is fine when Hikaru cheats looking at ceiling but it is not if player looks directly at his phone? yeah sure

Me taking the algebra exam in the 8th grade

I understand why Hikaru don't want to go to reddit right now

CAUGHT

Why does he not want to go to reddit

Early bird gets the cheating content 😂

are you allowed to write notes during chess game? im just interested hehe :D

Disrect Speed run more

Editor says Hikaru apologized but honestly I call bullshit

Maybe they didn't release the name because he's a minor? Just a guess

What is the matter between alireza and hikaru, anyone tel

Waiting for September 6th

Dang, was hoping to hear Hikaru's thoughts on fish jerky. Maybe next video?

Does anyone find annoying that Hikaru literally reads what’s written instead of giving only the bullet points? Or is it just me

10:00 "Statistics is not a valid method" This is very false. Statistics are an extraordinarily valid method for catching cheaters, and is used to catch cheaters in everything from video game speedrunning to major financial fraud.

vErY iNtErEsTiNg

ok this is easy no one brings any phones in to or while playing in any chess match ver no ones who is playing can have anythig on them apart from water and a pen a pad thats it if they dont like it they dont play easy

Thank god i found 1 video of yours where do not start with that weird "welcome back" !! stuff... love yya!

Hikaru: Now that I am in a tough spot, I am going to throw people the bone of a cheating scandal somewhere to divert attention. Damage control at it finest.

WHY WOULD HIKARU SAY GREAT GAME WHEN A PLAYER WAS CHEATING? THIS IS THE PROBLEM GM LIKE HIKARU STILL THINKS THE GAME IS ENTERTAINING - CHEATING IS DESTROYING CHESS AND HIKARU DOESNT CARE BECAUSE HES MAKING MONEY BY NOT MAKING A BIG ISSUE OUT OF THE CANCER OF CHEATING. HIKARU DOESNT REALLY CARE IF PEOPLE ARE CHEATING UNLESS ITS AGAINST HIM.

Didnt know Hikaru was in Chicago all the time ...

The cheater's name is Stan Halstead.

Hikaru the best streamer

Close fight buddy boy

DANNY YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME DANNY

The cheater was an idiot. If Hikaru were supposed to follow engine advice for some project, he would refuse to make the b5 move just on principle, and would try later engine moves that at least were not completely crazy. This cheater did not even have the brains to skip an engine move that just alerted any observer to possible cheating. Hey cheaters, you can win without having to use every engine move!

WTH