It is well known that Kramnik baselessly accuses everyone. The article seems to be more about statistics than chess, and doesn’t make any accusations. Kind of a click bait title IMO.
Hikaru is also notable for quickly accusing players baselessly
A recent chess controversy
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#12It is well known that Kramnik baselessly accuses everyone. The article seems to be more about statistics than chess, and doesn’t make any accusations. Kind of a click bait title IMO.
It's to be expected per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Which is itself intuitive if you have the prior that “making the claim is the stronger headline, so if the claim is true, it’ll be in the headline”
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#13It is well known that Kramnik baselessly accuses everyone. The article seems to be more about statistics than chess, and doesn’t make any accusations. Kind of a click bait title IMO.
I'm just trying to figure out how you even cheat on chess, the only thing that comes to mind is moving pieces, and sneaking new ones on the board, but if there's enough cameras, how do you get away with it, eventually someone WILL notice, highlight it, point it out, and you will be shamed.
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#14It is well known that Kramnik baselessly accuses everyone. The article seems to be more about statistics than chess, and doesn’t make any accusations. Kind of a click bait title IMO.
I'm just trying to figure out how you even cheat on chess, the only thing that comes to mind is moving pieces, and sneaking new ones on the board, but if there's enough cameras, how do you get away with it, eventually someone WILL notice, highlight it, point it out, and you will be shamed.
Bluetooth buttplug (you can get such things on Amazon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovense) and an observer in the audience tapping out Morse code?
Or, more mundanely, bathroom breaks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/sports/kirill-shevchenko-...
Your iPhone can reliably beat the best chess players in the world.
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#15I thought this chass cheating story was going to be about Hans Niemann's (alleged) vibrating anal beads. I'm slightly dissapointed.
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#16It is well known that Kramnik baselessly accuses everyone. The article seems to be more about statistics than chess, and doesn’t make any accusations. Kind of a click bait title IMO.
I'm just trying to figure out how you even cheat on chess, the only thing that comes to mind is moving pieces, and sneaking new ones on the board, but if there's enough cameras, how do you get away with it, eventually someone WILL notice, highlight it, point it out, and you will be shamed.
In the old Soviet/US rivalry days there was an accusation of cheating that I thought was novel. The accusation was that the Soviet players in the middle rounds were doing subtle not-right moves with the US #1. This forced the lead US player to put way too much effort into figuring out if it was some new line that he didn't know about and tiring him out. Then by the time he got to the final he was exhausted and confused.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just trying to figure out how you even cheat on chess, the only thing that comes to mind is moving pieces, and sneaking new ones on the board, but if there's enough cameras, how do you get away with it, eventually someone WILL notice, highlight it, point it out, and you will be shamed.
In the old Soviet/US rivalry days there was an accusation of cheating that I thought was novel. The accusation was that the Soviet players in the middle rounds were doing subtle not-right moves with the US #1. This forced the lead US player to put way too much effort into figuring out if it was some new line that he didn't know about and tiring him out. Then by the time he got to the final he was exhausted and confus…
I'm not inclined to see that as cheating.
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#18Can anyone tell me why numbers in this article are being rendered higgledy-piggledy on my browser, Firefox / Windows 11?
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#19I think if Kramnik accuses someone of cheating it might actually drop the posterior probability that they cheated.
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#20If you want a deep dive into chess cheating, including a lot of wild stories, Sarah Z put out an entertaining Youtube video [1] a couple of months ago that explores the concept. It's a long video, but well worth the watch.