About two weeks ago Nakamura played Supi for four games on chess.com and lost all of them. In the end of the match, Nakamura made several insinuations that Supi was cheating, saying that it was weird, that Supi was probably with 99% accuracy in all games, he even check the accuracy of the last game and when he saw that Supi accuracy was 93%, just changed subject and kept insinuating that he might be cheating.
Nakamura was still complaining and then Supi was warned about it and came to Nakamura chat to say that it was not cool to do that. Nakamura didn't reply, but stopped talking about it.
It wasn't the first time that Nakamura accused Supi, back in 2015 Supi beat Nakamura in a tournament on ICC, Hikaru formally accused Supi of cheating and Supi was eliminated from the tournament and banned from ICC. At the time, several GMs came in defense of Supi, showing that the game was full of mistakes on both sides and complaining that Supi was eliminated and banned before the game was even analyzed. Later, ICC unbanned Supi, but never apologized or emitted a note about it. This is covered in a post of GM Leitao:
rafaelleitao.com/trapaca-no-x... (portuguese).
The four games played a couple weeks ago by Nakamura and Supi were thoughtfully analyzed by Brazilian streamers and players, in the first Supi was trying to force a draw by perpetual and Hikaru made a huge blunder trying to avoid it. In the other, the American GM ended up playing bad and hung up material. In only one of these games the Brazilian plays with high accuracy, but he does not make any suspicious "computer moves", it is all very standard until Hikaru blunders.
Besides the games by itselves not proving that Supi was doing anything wrong, it should be taken in consideration that Supi is also a streamer on Twitch, he plays on chess.com with his account LPSupi (with 3k rating) live in front of thousands of people, explaining every move and detailing his plans in advance. He is also the current Brazilian Classical Chess Champion, using the same style of aggressive chess on the board. More than that, he won the
Chess.com Immortal Game contest for a game against Carlsen, where he made a queen sacrifice that even engines failed to see. On the occasion, instead of accusing Supi, Carlsen complimented him for the "nasty" move.
www.chess.com/news/view/chess...
The most important thing is, when you are as famous as Nakamura, you can't use your platform to accuse someone without any proof. I thought I should share this here on reddit, because Hikaru must be held accountable for his act, even though he probably will never admit that he was being a sore loser and apologize, people must know that it happened.
On the other hand, Supi said that he just wants to move on and blocked Nakamura on chess.com.
27 дек 2021
