![]() ![]() Of course it is behavior unbecoming of a grandmaster, but whatever you make of his character, the fact is that cheating online is relatively easy - but cheating over the board is practically “Mission: Impossible.” Cheating versus the world champion - at a disadvantage - at a major tournament? The very idea is ludicrous. has implied that there was more to Niemann’s behavior than this, but the details are not public. While there are measures against this type of thing online, they are hardly foolproof. It was the single biggest mistake of my life and I am completely ashamed. ![]() I wanted to gain some rating so I could play stronger players, so I cheated in random games in. I have never ever in my life cheated in an over-the-board game. He admitted this in an interview, calling it the foolishness of a young, ambitious player - though he is still young and ambitious - and that it involved asking someone else in the room to furnish him with moves from a chess engine. It came out that Carlsen was likely aware that Niemann has been caught cheating online before - at least twice on, when he was 12 and 16, the latter time seemingly leading to a six-month suspension from prize games. Buradan muhtemelen Niemann'ın Ankara'da oynanancak Türkiye İş Bankası Süper Ligine gelmediğini anlıyoruz.:) /dFoAx7x5oBīut Niemann, like anyone, has a past. Gölgede ve güneşte satranç :P Oynayanlar Magnus Carlsen ve son dönemin yükselen genç yıldızlarından Hans Niemann yer de Miami. (Update 9/26: Carlsen has published a statement confirming that he suspects cheating but stopping short of making direct accusations or factual claims.) FIDE, the official international chess organization, is expected to issue a statement soon (Update: here) that may shed light on things, but it won’t change what’s already happened. The event and its fallout (only given in outline here) have sharply divided the chess world, as even the conservative approach of “let’s wait and see” tacitly sustains the idea of Niemann cheating, so there is precious little neutral ground to occupy. Others have examined the record and found no indication of cheating. The tournament organizer has stated that there is no indication of any suspicious behavior or wrongdoing. Niemann, for his part, has naturally and emphatically denied any cheating and said that an apparently miraculous preparation for the unusual line of attack Carlsen took was one he happened to include after seeing it in a game from years earlier. ![]() ![]() (After this article was published, Carlsen told an interviewer he will give a statement after the Julius Baer tournament currently underway, in which both are playing.) He has not elaborated on these actions despite officials, fans, colleagues and even the likes of former world champion Garry Kasparov asking him to speak out. Yet soon he had not just forfeited the game ( which you can watch here), but he had also withdrawn from the tournament, cryptically tweeting what seemed to many to be a veiled accusation of cheating by Niemann. The saga began two weeks ago, when current chess world champion and one of the strongest players in history, Magnus Carlsen (pictured above), began a match at the Sinquefield Cup with Hans Niemann, a 19-year-old grandmaster who has ascended from respectable to downright dangerous over a remarkably short period of time.Ĭarlsen was playing with the white pieces, and therefore going first - an advantage he is particularly adept at using, having not lost a game in years with white and seldom even taking a draw. But recent events have made people think seriously about the possibility and what it might mean for the future of the game. The idea - unsupported by any evidence, it must be emphasized - that a player could surreptitiously consult an unbeatable chess engine even when playing over the board has been batted around for years. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud between the world champion and an upstart challenger has prompted speculation on the existential threat to chess posed by an AI engine tiny enough to be concealed somewhere on - or in - the body. The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the “Don’t Worry Darling” fracas. ![]()
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