| ▲ | t0mpr1c3 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hans admitted to cheating. It's no wonder his career suffered. Incidentally, he is also a complete asshole. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | adjejmxbdjdn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The only cheating Hans admitted to and the only cheating proven were two (maybe 3?) online non monetary games when he was under 15 years old. Pretty much every player has done something like that. But again, he was blacklisted before any of even these marginal allegations were proven. And the actual allegations Magnus accused him of and that followed him for years has absolutely no evidence other than Magnus not accepting that Hans could beat him in a highly controlled over the table game. Also, he continued to be punished in ways that are outside the actual punishment that was given to him that are not official but are being done through winks and nods between Carlsen and Hikaru and tournament organizers who don’t want to upset them. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | searealist 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sindorov, who won the candidates, and will be playing for the world championship, has also had accounts banned on chess.com for (presumably) cheating as a teenager. Do you think it would be ok if a large part of the chess world conspired to keep him out of tournaments. Do you think it would be ok if the world made jokes that he cheated using a sex toy? Do you think it would be ok for the largest youtube chess channel (GothamChess) to publish a video titled "Chess cheating device" featuring a thumbnail showing his face next to a butt plug? And all this while he was 19? What happened to Hans is FAR worse than anything Kramnik did. But maybe you think it's ok because you find him to be an asshole? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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