1. ERROR CORRECTION- In the podcast, I said that the online match that led to the account getting banned was a bullet match, but it was 3 0. My apologies for the mistake- Ben 2. Sorry this was a day late, I forgot to hit "publish" and just noticed today (Wednesday)
What's your opinion of the ff WELL-DOCUMENTED FACTS? Before the 2022 Sinquefield Cup controversy, Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov & Hikaru Nakamura had cheated the ff: - Daniel Edelman - 1988 simul - Judit Polgar - 1994 Linares - Vishy Anand - 1995 PCA classical WCC - 'The world' (MSN) - 1999 Garry Kasparov vs the world - Alexei Shirov - 2000 PCA classical WCC - Alexandra Kosteniuk - 2009 blitz WCC - the late Arianne Caoili's spouse Levon Aronian - 2016 candidates - Alireza Firouzja - 2019 blitz WCC (1 decade later in the same tournament - cheats again!) - Danya Naroditsky 2x - lichess 2020 & 2021 - Ian Nepomniachtchi - 2021 classical WCC - Sergey Karjakin - 2022 candidates - Wesley So - 2022 WFRCC (define 'slow rapid') Yet they had/later baselessly accused - Hans 2x (1 Magnus, 1 Hikaru - both 2022) - IBM (1997) After the controversy started, Magnus - cheated Hans Niemann - 2022 CGC (removal) - cheated Anish Giri - 2023 Superbet Blitz - baselessly accused Alisher - 2023 Qatar - baselessly accused Alice Lee - 2023 women's USCC ( as described in PgHQdOocI84 ) 8 of which were in world championships / candidates. All the victims are Jewish-or-American except Vishy & Alireza (but top French then was Jewish MVL). The list of victims of their cheating & baselessly accusing contains : - 19 Jews-or-Americans - 3 Jewish-or-American women - 2 Jewish-or-American girls - 3 minors - 6 teenagers / juniors - 10 (later 11 re Levon) Americans - 14 Jews Notes: 1 I count Alireza as Jewish via MVL ( as explained in p1w4Rr-2yF or 4lCqigmU_Xs ) and count Hans & Danya with multiplicity. But I don't count multiple citizenship or ethnicity of the same person by multiplicity. - Eg 'Magnus accused Jewish American Hans' counts only once. - Eg 'Magnus & Hikaru accused Hans' counts twice. More info: yirg14TiLt8 2 Hans supposedly cheated 100x, but Magnus definitely did. - cbarr81 asked: Do you ever log onto as an anonymous player, and just crush people for fun? - Magnus admitted in an AMA: Once in a while I’ve used some of my friends accounts and won a couple of games… or a lot… P.S. Wesley So on Lex Fridman xcdhgq P.P.S. Interview while imprisoned Qt0S8G_fUbE Pablo Mercado: So what is your advice to the Filipino chess players? Uncle Bobby Fischer: Filipino - My advice is to give up chess and take up Fischer Random. - 2004Oct11, 15 years before nephew Wesley So became the inaugural WFRCC in CLASSICAL time controls.
The main difference between OTB and online is pre-move, which makes all controversy useless. If one can make many moves in a row this is not chess, it is a variant.
