Magnus Believes Hans Niemann is a Cheater
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 15. 05. 2024
- On September 26, 2022, Magnus Carlsen finally breaks his silence and tweets a statement where he clearly calls Hans Niemann a cheater and states why. Hikaru reads and reacts to this revelation.
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I stand by my tweet
okay
Hey Jimmy, can you make a beads cheating device video with Mark Rober?
Give me one million please :D i accept usdt :D
@@mickomagallanes1185 that would be hilarious
Thought this was a fake for a moment
Hansâ gameplay is an expression of something deep inside him.
Lmao is that a vibrating anal bead joke?
You chose your words very carefully right?
Bah dum tss
the perfect choice of words.
I see what you did there
Magnus can feel the vibrations through the board
Lol
Yeah, he should also learn to decode it to know the move in advance and have more time
if a world champion wants to catch you in a lie I imagine the trap will be pretty good.
It's trivial what the trap is. Libel and slander can easily be defended in any court by proving that what you've said was the truth, or if the person is a public figure (Hans is) that you didn't do it out of malice. The fact that Magnus cannot come out and say everything without "permission" from Hans means that 1) He cannot show that it's the truth by a preponderance of evidence 2) He cannot prove that he's not doing it out of malice.
So basically he wants the drama to force Hans to make a blunder and give him this "permission" so that he can slander Hans each time Hans wins.
You can never trust a cheater
@@volodyanarchist or his explanation based on circumstantial evidence surmounts to truthiness and it still leaves him open to a lawsuit. Why would he just want Carte Blanche to just talk shit? The insinuation is more than enough to paint that picture while being covered as opinion.
@@Maver1ck911 If all of Magnus' evidence is circumstantial, he shouldn't be accusing Neimann.
@@maxhuzen6329 you do know that "circumstantial" evidence is admissible for a conviction right. If all your legalese is based on TV and the Amber Heard trial you're sorely mistaken.
Magnus just showed he can throw away a game and still come out of the tournament with a +17 score over 28 games. Completely insane.
especially in a tournament filled with high level players
@@iwatchtoomuchhaikyuu5307 Not high level to his standards though; young in-experienced players.
I think that's unprecedented.
In other words...
SUS
just sayin'
@@itsapplesaucetoaboss8216 everybody more than 2700 level
Fischer in the making! Love it!
Literally never clicked on a video so fast. I trust Magnus' judgement when it comes to natural vs unnatural play. However we can't punish Hans without definitive proof.
And that's why he is asking Hans for permission to speak. If Hans is innocent he has to say yes. If he just ignores Magnus then it's even more suspicious.
@@evylrune give him permission to potentially talk as much nonsense as Magnus wants?
I believe Magnus but this is just not convincing enough.
@@FlyingUnosaur Magnus hasnât talked nonsense before. You must be new here. Welcome to chess.
@@evylrune what permission to ruin his career why does he need permission if he has evidence this is ridiculous world championship means he can spit any nonsense
The âpermissionâ part is another way saying he wants to accuse him harder and without proof. I hope that Neimann doesnât fall for this trap.
Magnus may have resigned after 1 move last time but in doing so he started a new chess game on another level for us to enjoy watching.
So this is what 5D chess look like đ€Ż
what do you mean âMAYâ
Agreed.
@@superitgel1 It speaks for itself
He should stick to playing on the chess board then because he's not nearly as good at this.
I think Hikaru should examine games of Hans as doubleblind to prevent confirmation bias. Meaning Hikaru doesn't know if its Hans' game or some other youngster who we know doesn't cheat. Therefore Hikaru will analyze the game without bias and just objective thoughts.
I think it might also be better if he doesnât know which side is which
Except he already knows the games.
The problem is chess super gms like Hikaru can know the game based off the position
@@yesno7889 there is no point in that. Hans plays like a regular player in some matches, and like the best pplayer in the world in others. He's too inconsistent.
@@yulyeong9220 Hikaru definitely knows thousands of games but today for example he has not seen a lot of Hansâ game as well as other young talents like Erigaisi, Nordibek, etc. Those other clean youngsters can be used as a control.
What's sick is that Magnus can just throw away 3 points in a top level tourney (his resignation against Neimann) and still win it convincingly like it's nothing lol.
right? and hans, a player who has made 3 top ten GMs scratch their heads cant make it to the finals with a free win
@@JakeRivers he made it to finals?
@@1994mrmysteryman he lost in semifinals
Edit: quarter finals
@@1994mrmysteryman sorry cant*
@@JakeRivers he lost in Semifinals and Magnus won the tournament with a record score despite throwing 3 points
I love that Magnus puts "World Chess Champion" at the end. lmao
I know, lmao!
is a true statement tho
Technically heâs still the Champ until Ding and Nepo play their match
Just in case you questioned his credentials lol
gotta let em know
If you play against a cheater, you are most likely to have a very low accuracy percentage because you will be forced into bad positions that your best move might actually be an inaccuracy.
Best comment I read so far was the suggestion to analyze games from your POV and giving your info on when a super GM would actually check an engine for help. I feel that at your level you could be really sneaky with it so I'd be interested in that!
Hikaru always reads stuff as if he's reading a book to children
Tbh, this is why I recently got into his content (due to the drama) but because his words are said in a soothing way
Just the way I like it đ
That is the demographic or like half his chat
Most streamers audiences are literal children.
Hes reading to twitch chat.. whats the difference
Some guy responded to the statement âhe didnât even look tenseâ with âoh so we can put the anal beads theory to restâ
Lmao
hahahahahhaha
Maybe his ass got loose after many matches
For some people beads are relaxing đ
@@hatakenewt348 đ€Łđ€Ł
- Hans : former cheater but not cheating anymore
- Hans coach/mentor Maxim Dlugy : former cheater but not cheating anymore
- Two former cheaters not enabling or encouraging each other to cheat
- Hans becomes Einstein overnight and easily beats Mag as black with no stress
All the above allegedly happened. All are possible.
- Hans is suspiciously no longer Einstein during the postgame interview and cannot explain his own moves
We cannot keep playing "final destination" at this point. He cheated.
Best comment.
The pressure of cheating accusations affect his mentality surely have impact his following match result to his defeats
Bro nothing you said is evidenceâŠhow can you prove he cheated in the game. You canâtâŠ
You act as if itâs impossible for magnus to lose.
@@donaldvanvliet9039 Heâs taken Lâs to 14 year olds and shook hands and smiled, Hansâs play and explanation of his play is just extremely fishy.
One of the important parts of the statement was that Magnus wanted to resign *before* the tournament when he knew that Niemann was going to be playing. This goes to show that Hans' reputation affected Magnus, possibly even affecting the way he played and making him more paranoid. This is obviously a very delicate situation at play but I do believe that whatever happens next will likely change things in Chess on a very large level.
he is not the only one apparently Firouzja was a bit skeptical but never said it outright and Nepo was also uncomfortable but did not say it before either so this thing was existent before the tournement even started and now Aronian joined in, the difference is that these 3 players did not accuse Hans outright like Magnus
It's classic confirmation bias. Magnus went into it with a preconceived notion that Hans was a cheater, before the match he was concerned he would cheat, and then during the match he decided early on that Hans was indeed cheating and quit the match.
Heres the thing, we need confirmation from a third party (the TO or someone not acquainted wirh magnus) regarding his intention to resign. Also the whole "he didnt seemed focused" is also ridiculous. Unless he has played against Hans over the board multiple times and was close to him personally its impossible to perceive how focused someone truly is. Not to mention, when hans was ACTIVELY cheating his mannerisms/"vibe" would change, and magnus would pick up on that and include it in his statement.
@@TheExFloridaMan fabi confirmed it before magnus' statement
@@TheExFloridaMan 100% you've never played against strong chess players OTB before.
There's literally nothing absolutely nothing ridiculous in what Magnus said, it's super easy to notice if someone is deep in thought or not and if you really were not even focused and not tense at at all in critical positions and yet you still play top moves without thinking for long is 100% suspicious, top players tend to do this in critical positions even if they're playing against players hundreds of points lower rated than them now imagine not doing it against someone who's 150+ points higher rated
Nah once again you show your lack of knowledge about the whole thing, this statement was carefully looked through by a lawyer to ensure nothing legal could be taken against it, so what does that tell you? Obviously it means that Magnus can't include everything he wants to say and that's exactly why he threw the ball in Hans' court and asked him for an explicit permission to speak openly
Apologies if I offended you in any way, just trying to clarify things to you
I loved what GM Benjamin Finegold said in chat: "The beads speak for themselves." đ5:11
Plot twist...Hans is using beads...but just to boost his confidence not actual cheating.
but in his most recent tweet he's bashing Magnus statement calling him crybaby, what a two head clout chaser
@@memegazer no if you use headphones you can actually hear the vibrating morse code
@@CambiacapasYT heâs crazy
@@memegazer makes sense
I love how this drama will become a chess match in and of itself.
I hope it ends with publicly televised "best of" matches. Niemann v Carlsen: The Match of The Century
so meta
And after some exchanges were made weâre looking at an endgame, Magnusâ main domain of expertise.
Or a defamation lawsuit
@@starmorpheus Or a public hanging. I don't care who even. Like we can just get some homeless guy...I just always wanted to see one of those.
I'm not afraid to admit that I love this drama lol, probably one of the most exciting things that has happened within the chess world the last couple years
Sure. Cheating is an existential threat to chess. Drama is what gives it life.
Agreed. It's like how the steroid scandal revived my interest in baseball.
@@omniyambot9876 nice quote from magnus you used... đ€Šââ
@@kieranb7747 bro your iq is room temp?
It's one of the most dramatic things to happen to chess in history, not just the last couple years.
The fact that Magnus detected early in the game that Niemanns move choices were so specific to a line that only his inside team would know, likely caused Magnus to play bait moves that were part of lines tangent to that private analysis Niemann should not have been privileged to. So the final 41% accuracy of magnus play was due to having observed Niemann chasing those tangents with knowledge of them. It feels like this is why Magnus wants to be given freedom to speak about the bait he dropped and how not even a computer could have guessed the odd lines his team had preparred in secret and that Niemann was suddenly finding with casual ease.
Magnus is quite the genius. I believe you're right. Magnus might have set the bait to catch Niemann
He is just a cry baby with a large ego. He rage quit the tournament and is basically acting like a spoiled brat. Now with this ridiculous statement he proves - he has no proof and is ready for his minions and trolls to carry on the work. Shameful. Hope he retires asap.
@@mehloser880 W
@@mehloser880 your username is perfect for youđ„°
@@icyv6018 Will see how Magnus handles his recent performance. I believe he may have some issue with losing to much younger players who are relatively new to this level of playing.
The problem for Hans is that Magnus isn't retired. If he was better than Magnus, he could just keep playing. Magnus is just willing to concede to Hans and still win the events lol
If that turns out to be how it goes, then I wouldnât be shocked if Magnus just refuses to retire until Hans does it first.
@@FlorianWendelborn fat chance Hans is 19 lol
"If he was better than Magnus, he could just keep playing." What? No one, including Hans, thinks Hans is better than Magnus and Hans is going to keep playing chess. The problem for Hans is that Magnus got the whole world to believe he beat him by cheating with no evidence when he should have been celebrating the biggest win of his life.
@@volty3454 then Magnus will play till death, no biggie =)
more likely magnus will stop doing events where hans is invited, meaning organizers won't invite hans for fear of losing magnus
An interesting thing to do would be Hikaru watching/reviewing Hans' games and saying in which positions he would use the engine. In this way we could have a super GM's POV on how he would use an engine in a "controlled" way
The issue with that is that Hikaru isnât an experienced cheater. What he decides wonât translate well to someone allegedly cheating professionally their entire life.
I'd rather like to see a comparison of HN expressions during the whole game with Magnus and other games where he is
1) convenient as he has a good position.
2) inconvenient as he has a bad position
3) stressed as the position is equal/difficult with opportunities for both sides.
Magnus mentioned that he observed relaxed behavior.
@@FlorianWendelborn I don't think Hikaru needs to be an experienced cheater. The intuition and feeling for positions by super gms is just so good, they may need only a slight hint of what the engine would do to see an idea from a different perspective. This is what op wanted to see, the crucial points of the game where Hikaru would seek the aid of the engine
â@@derrollmops Yeah but it still doesn't translate properly. Even a single inaccuracy could be an absolute game changer if you were hinted that. If you have an accomplice, you don't even need to think about all this yourself. Someone with an engine could show you a way to get a huge advantage (of ~+1.5) after a small inaccuracy. And once you see one of these moves, especially since they're super GMs, most next moves will be pretty obvious.
Also, too much people think Hans would only cheat when he has to. What if he doesn't decide when he cheats, and instead gets "messages". Maybe most of the times he knew about the plans and the right moves, and didn't need the cheat at all.
Danya said himself it'd take only 3 engine moves per game to be world champion with absolutely no problem at all.
Probably already been done many times over past three weeks.
I love how everyone in chat became lawyers after one guy said he was, as expected đ
I don't know why people wouldn't trust Magnus' judgement on this. He's been beaten before, he'll be beaten again, and never had any ill will one way or the other. So why would he be so salty toward hans for no reason? It seems to me be an unjustifiable conclusion to say hans is not cheating based solely on that. And just to top it all off: once a cheater, always a cheater; your character is what you do when nobody's watching, and hans cheats when nobody's watching, that means he is a cheater, whether he cheated in the game against magnus or not.
"once a cheater, always a cheater" is just a stupid saying. It makes you sound dumb and ignorant. Magnus has Aspergergers so I would not trust his skills on reading others emotions.
i mean there is a saying goes âinnocent until proven guiltyâ and lots of people abide by that, but i dont. i agree w you. honestly if some girl says she was sexually assaulted even if there was no proof, if ur actually a decent guy you would side w the girl even if she may be js falsely accusing
Plot twist: Hans Neiman has a Yami Yugi alter ego that switches during a game. It's not cheating if he has the heart of the cards.
Jajajhhahhhahahha
Haha made my Day
"the heart of the pieces"
This would explain the quality of his interviews
I would say he's taking beta blockers. People do it all the time.
Magnus is smart because if it ends up that Hans is cheating, then Magnus is a hero. If it ends up that Hans wasn't cheating, then Magnus enters into his Bobby Fischer era
Do we know if Hans is Jewish? Hahaha
Well, he can resignate Hans games and still win the tournaments. It's his right and his superpower.
It is hilarious to me how many people doubt Magnus. Literally the strongest player of all time. Literally the single best person to guage cheating. Known cheater, lies about how much he cheated ,it comes out his coach is a know cheater, other super GMs are sus, can't explain his moves, miracle prep but you just can't see the reality. Amazing.
@@donquixote8462 well, you underestimate the knowledge of people who have only entered the chess world when covid hit, they are far more trustworthy than the world chess champion and literally the best player
LUL
I absolutely love how Hikaru always puts the last pressure on everybody and isn't afraid to state his honest opinion. He said what Magnus couldn't and does an extremely good job at communicating the situation as a whole (and he has been spot on in the last few weeks). Props to Hikaru for that
But his opinion is wrong. You seem to agree, so you like what he said and praise him. You have the same wrong opinion.
Objectively Hikaru is being malicious and should be sued.
@@Fred-tz7hs His opinion is his opinion. It can be unjust, unfair, but it can't be wrong.
@@Fred-tz7hs stay mad đ€Ł you canât really sue someone for their opinion, or win if you do
It's like a irl example of chess, and Magnus just put Niemann into check.
lol
Magnus wants to mate :)
Low rated player thinking a pawn on a2 is giving check to the king on e4
Magnus lawyer speaks for himself while Hans lets the chess do the talking
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Soundtrack to this is Busta Rhymes "Woo ha, woo ha, I got you all in check."
I have to say Hans's Interview REALLY matches what Magnus said about that he seemed to not even concentrate fully during the game.
Right meaning it's just his personality, many people have quirky social interaction habits, it's borderline ableist to say "he seemed distracted therefore he was cheating"
@@kylezo he has cheated so many time in past , his coach was banned from website for cheating . His elo jump wasn't natural at all . And you think you are more aware about natural and unnatural moves better than magnus?
@@kylezo no chance
@@kylezo âborderline ableistâ lmao bruh
@@justinhuang5245 ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ you don't have to understand
Magnus felt the board vibrating in unison to Han's movements
What if at the Sinquefeld Cup, Magnus played moves which only had one good but unnatural reply from Black just to see if Hans would play it and Hans did. Magnus was upset not because he lost, but his suspicions were confirmed.
Do you even play chess?
No but seriously?
if that was possible to do, wouldn't everyone do moves like that? and if everyone does moves like that, wouldn't people catch up to it and find the "one good but unnatural reply from black". Maybe even give it a name like "internuclear attack helicopter ballistic french declined putin counter gambit"
@@Fred-tz7hs đ€Ł
We're resorting now to baseless speculation that may indicate magnus isnt a petty sore loser. Well done maggieđ
â@@AlcyonEldara now it's confirmed he cheated, how you feel to be wrong?
No one considers the challenges Hans has faced during this whole ordeal. Playing against Magnus is a major pain in the butt.
more like pleasure in the butt for hans specifically.
Nice choice of words!
Lol
This joke speaks for its self
LITERALLY
I dont think people grasp the chess knowledge grandmasters and in this case the world champion has. He has played against the strongest GMs in the world and im pretty confident that Carlsen can sense that something is off.
Iâm confident he canât and he has no evidence now what?
It's still all just hearsay until he comes out with something of substance. Considering the investigation showed nothing.
@@thomasshepard9149 your confidence is not justified
Or his ego is hurt because he's no longer the young chess prodigy genius in the room. Instead of letting Hans supercede Magnus' legacy, he wants Hans' chess career to be cut short
@@thguzzo17 magnus literally made mistakes in that game
There should be a "Cheaters' Cup" tournament in which players are expected to cheat. Standings will be judged according to several criteria -- 1) Whether the game was won or lost, 2) how well the player concealed the cheating both in pre-game electronic detection and during play, 3) how well the player performs in post-game interview discussing his thought process during the game. The tournament would be quite entertaining to watch, like a engine battle but with a human element. Moreover, it would get cheating technology and cheating behavior out in the open and greatly inform the chess community. Finally, it the tournament would be a rich data source for social-psychological research into the intersection of AI and society. Google might fund it with generous prize money.
This whole idea may seem dumb but it represents exactly the analysis that must be done to combat cheating. Why not make it fun by doing it in public? Otherwise it must be done in private, perhaps in the university setting, in a limited way, and destined to be too little too late. I say blast through the mess with a full-on assault on cheating with a public exposure of the whole business. We are entering the cyborg era in which normal human life exists in an intimate complex with computing technology, fully embracing of implanted devices. Increasingly, to play non-computer assisted chess will be practically impossible, and itself become the non-human way.
It's actually a fun and effective way to combat cheating. Kind of reminds me of how people will actually hire hackers to try to infiltrate their businesses. It's a way they can truly test their preventative measures. This is kind of similar.
They should a cheating version of professional cycling as well, but only judge it on who wins/survives strapping an orbital rocket booster to their bikes etc.
This would be more helpful to cheaters in the end, because they get to test effective cheating techniques without being banned for it
Worst possible idea in any sports history.
Let me see if I understand..
Magnus: "I need you to give me permission to go into the details of exactly how you cheated without you suing me for it" đ
More like: "He already hit me with an injunction, so I can't say anything more."
That's how the world works. If I was Hans I also wouldn't want anyone to slander me without proof.
"[Hans's] rise is one of the fastest of all time"
*The* fastest of all time. The next fastest is Alireza and Hans's climb blows Alireza away.
It's not like there aren't similar cases to Hans. Vincent Keymer has a smiliar rise so does Prag and Eri.
The amount of FIDE games Hans has played is the only thing really unprecedented
Not really. Pragg, Raunak, Nihal, Arjun, Keymer and Nodirbek have all had similar rises in recent years.
@@areebsiddiqui758 Incorrect, it's not even close.
@@areebsiddiqui758 but not like Hans. Beating Magnus in a classical game with the black pieces?
"The beads speaks for themselves "
It would be best if niemann would be asked what he would do in some famous position and some certain lines that don't really makes sense but is actually the best move. And suddenly slide in a position in a game he played and would be asked how he would handle the situation and explain his thought process.
My opinion is if a player is caught cheating in the past, they should be barred from competition moving forward because cheaters do relapse and itâs in the interest of integrity.
Are you dum? He was a minor you pdf file
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Once a cheater, always a cheater.
From a body-language perspective, I completely agree with Magnus regarding his game against Hans. If you watch the tournament, Hans was not paying attention to his games at all prior to the increased security. After the increased security, not only was Hans looking at his games more attentively, but his post-game analysis changed and his performance dropped. So, even if Hans did not cheat at St. Louis, there is certainly enough reasoning to suspect that something is off. Unfortunately for Hans, even if he /is/ innocent now, there will be many people that will have difficulty getting past the fact that he has admitted to cheating on multiple occasions in the past, and that stain is likely to be permanent.
Are you just going to ignore that you have no real proof and that this was actually one of Magnus' worst games.
Magnus got a 43% engine correlation. Magnus was playing very badly.
Are you ignoring all that?
Nieman cheated when he was a child đ§. Doesn't mean he's doing it now. And he's never cheated over the board.
@@sylvesteruchia5263 you say he cheated as a child like he was a child 15 years ago. He cheated 3 years ago lmao
@@sylvesteruchia5263 you have no proof whatsoever to say that hans never cheated otb... đ¶
Only he knows, yeah we can't punish him without proof but that doesn't make him never cheating bc there is no proof... that's not how reality works
the thing is, Hans is 19. You'd think the entire chess world basically deeming him a villian and harassing him will let him play his best? Especially when you know that the best player in the world, Carlson, and many of your idols like Hikaru consider you a cheater?
@@aspenxevel8296 I mean he is a cheater
Obviously the solution to this whole thing is Magnus and Hans need to headline Ludwig's upcoming chess boxing event.
Magnus would hit Hans so hard that the anal beads would shit out đ€Łđ€Ł
1rst round ko by Magnus easy money
I wonder if Hikaru practices his "hahaha that's a good one that's a good one omg wow" in front of the mirror.
You can't take the word of an admitted cheater seriously. He claims he only cheated twice in his life, which is probably the only two times he was caught red handed. It's like asking a criminal in prison if they are innocent, hint, they will all say they didn't do it except that one time they were caught on camera. This is why it is better to never cheat at all, in this case you won't have to worry about accusations. Kids out there, don't cheat, lie, or steal.
Yeah Hans of course is a target to be suspicious of, however Magnus Carlson definitely played a terrible game in his match against Hans. There really needs to be evidence because it looks like Hans just took advantage of the many blunders Carlson made. At least from a game review.
@@cotacachi12 I think Magnus played terribly on purpose to bait extremely unlikely moves for Hans to take
@@blatantslander I dunno about that, but that's an interesting thought. To me it seemed that Carlson threw out some moves in the opener that were a little less common and unusual, which allowed Hans to take the initiative as Black, Castle first and capitalize on it. Then Carlson got suspicious that he was prepared to challenge his own strange moves so well. Because Hans didn't really have that many strange moves but he responded to Carlsons atypical moves correctly. Then Carlson tried to go for obvious trades but Hans used those moments to pressure other pieces.
@@cotacachi12 no way that a chess world champion blunders so much like that!đ±
@@icyv6018 it's not typical but even engines suggest Carlsons playing was extremely poor in his match against Hans
Well, Magnus just spoke for himself
Magnusâ lawyer speaks for himself.
And didn't present any evidence whatever.
Magnus looks like a whiney nerd, who can't accept he got dominated ONE game. His ego is that bad. Prove he cheated against you Magnus or just stfu. The whiney nerd is strong here. Hans is a great player, probably the most inconsistent player as well. And if he changed up something he probably is capable of being the 'best'
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour Why isn't Hans defending himself in the public forum, now that Magnus has offered more information? Hans looks guilty here.
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour i mean if he keeps playing like that he will surely be the best and might have a shot in world chess engine tournaments
The fact that you canât detect a player getting engine assistance in 2-3 moves in critical positions online works against Hans. Once you open Pandoraâs box nobody will trust you again because itâs virtually impossible to detect if done well and sparingly.
The match wasnt online tho
If anyone can be accused of cheating without any evidence on that basis then that helps Hans--he is on equal footing with everyone else.
@@trucid2 no, the difference between him and ALL the other top players is heâs been caught and admitted to cheating.
@@trucid2 he admitted to cheating. Also his climb to 2600 had over 20 games with 90% correlation with the engine AND multiple 100% engine correlation games according to chessbase. For comparison Magnus only has on average 70% engine correlation (highest in the world)
@@trucid2 Any evidence??? Lmao. Evidence is not the same as proof. There's a lot of evidence.
-Previous cheating
-Lying about his previous cheating
-Suspicious change of performance in a shorts amount of time
-Not being able to analyze his own lines after suspicious games.
People who keep saying there's no evidence are really pushing for any cheater to get away with it.
Now I want to see Hikaru VS Hans OTB đ
What software is Hikaru using in this video for analysis? Look's pretty dope!
chessbase
If a tournament organizer has a choice between Hans and Magnus, that's checkmate for Hans.
They usually do not have this choice
If a tournament feels like they have to make this choice, and Hans loses out on potential earnings, then that's a clear lawsuit for loss of earnings and reputational damage
What do you mean? If Iâm an organizer I would have hans and magnus at every event. Thatâs free drama and attention on the venue I never wouldâve had before. If they never play a game it doesnât matter because people will still tune in just to see what happens
@@hollowichigo1023 Magnus just won't turn up, what happens then?
and soon he will have to choose which diva will still play against what other diva and how he can keep tournament forfeits at a minimum
Absolutely loving this drama. Even friends of mine who aren't into chess at all know about the anal beads đ
Probably use them themselves in their freetime
If the anal beads industry benefits from this chess drama, it's all worth it
of course you love the drama, you are a typical brainless mainstream media fed sheeple
Same LMAO A friend messaged me asking "Did some chess player cheat using anal beads???"
Gotta love the anal beads, I even use them when I am not cheating.
Hey bro, nice to see smaller creators making content about chess. Keep it up, you'll get subs one day!
Magnus accuses Hans. Magnus should come up with evidence, not Hans. You can not prove you did nothing wrong, if you did nothing wrong
But heâs not allowed to present evidence without permission otherwise itâs a lawsuit
The fact that Magnus considered withdrawing from the event before it even started says something about Hansâ history of cheating.
maybe, though magnus may have also been suspicious because hans beat in him in a round in the Miami tournament and he doesn't like losing much
It says something about Magnus' perception of Hans' history of cheating.
Or Magnus is bullshitting
@@gr3ifer477
He lost to others before and didn't consider dropping tournaments just to avoid them.
exactly and now he sees cheats with him everywhere and his proof is "he didn't seem like he was very focused in critical positions
To any young players tempted to cheat take it in how that rep follows you weather or not you continue cheating it will continue making life shitty for all involved. your INTEGRITY is worth more than a chess match.
Whereâs your proof on these recent matches that he cheated? Just stop
@@tonyhuynh707 that's why I said weather or not you continue to cheat
@@tonyhuynh707 learn to read
@@tonyhuynh707 ywnbaw
@@tonyhuynh707 this post isn't about Hans its a warning about damages of degrading your integrity
In Hans game against Magnus after the opening he played Stockfish top 3 moves every move for rest game
And what about Magnus? Like, I agree this is a pretty good point, but I canât conclude on that alone. What does this say for all kind of other matches. Is this test only true for Niemanâs games, or also for some of Magnusâs? Is this true for some people before chess engines?
If the answer to either question is yes, you cannot consider that test good enough, as it could happen without chess engine.
We need deep statistical analysis of Niemann as the French player Yosha done compare to what the Indian players like Gukesh and Erigaisi done over the past three years and how Arjun done in the online final game
To be frank, I believe Magnus here. He's by all account a chess genius, and I don't remember him making such frivolous claims before against others who beat him. If nothing else, him being who he is and what he can do should add some significant weight to what he's claiming.
And inconsistencies are still inconsistencies, and Niemann has them.
He is the chess genius. He's never said things like this before to this degree.
Even chess geniuses aren't immune to being rattled, it seems. Magnus's paranoia about the situation seems to have contributed to him playing well below his level and losing to Hans
@@bryansweeney3077 Easy to say, but the fact is Hans has cheated in the past by his own admission. And there are red flags, such as his behavior during the game and his interview after. Study a line that Magnus allegedly did only one time before?
Can you show me at any time in Magnus' professional history where he made this kind of allegation against another player? Any?
Magnus played badly in that game, roughly 47% engine accuracy, way below his normal game or his near perfect games at 94% plus
@@alexanderthered5603 Yeah but the difference is that Hans was the lowest-rated player there which angered Magnus that he lost to him. Losing to the best is one thing but it's another thing to lose to the lowest rated player.
HIKARU ought to do a series on the ascendancy of Hans and evaluate his games to see if he can detect what Magnus claims he can detect in terms of Hans' unnatural progress.
Yeah that would be cool
thats a huge waste of time and energy. There are people whose job it is to do stuff like that.
@@frankthecat1671 yeah and we wanna see hikaru, a person who is capable of doing it, to do it. no money will be wasted... and itll in the end be good content both for hikaru's youtube and twitch... would also potentially make hikaru more well known than he already is..... these are very simple things to think about so i'm just going to assume you typed your shit out when you were sleepy.
Yosha Echecs already posted a video doing that. She showed how Hans had many games with 100% accuracy to the computer best moves from chessbase. You can look at these games for yourself.
Still does not prove anything but it makes it highly likely he selectively consulted an AI in key moments to get his rating up. That could explain why Magnus is suspicious and does not want to play him.
If Hans can still win after a TSA screening and while in a Faraday cage then I think that would satisfy people he is not cheating. But given his history includes known cheating in the last 5 years then I don't blame Magnus.
@@frankthecat1671 And I've heard it said "people whose job it is" don't have the intuitive positional understanding of a World Top 100 player. So they are basing conclusions on weird maths that have their own dubiousness.
"The ball is in Hann's court"....this is like a chess game outside the chess game.
What I think we need is some kind of correlation analysis for critical, complex positions in the middle game. Whole game accuracy is one thing, but the accuracy during positions that are difficult give a better picture of how 'clutch' the player is. Cheating at the top level can be easier to obfuscate when they are only using assistance during key moments finding moves that are much harder for a human to find in order to push them towards a win. It would be interesting to see this stat and also I think that chess should honestly start keeping a database that includes the correlation comparison stats for every single game of player's in competition's. These things are important if we want to move chess forward by maintaining integrity of the game in a world where technology has infiltrated our lives so much. One could look at Hans as the Lance Armstrong of Chess. Someone who is certainly a high level talented player and has everyone fooled, but is most likely doping using some very obscure methods that are hard to detect (for now). I hope more people come together to crowdsource an even deeper level of analysis across all his games as well as future games.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We simply need more comprehensive anti-cheat measures for OTB.
I didn't know Hans was a last second replacement for St. Louis and that Mognoose was going to withdraw when he found out. VERY interesting.
Hans defenders were coping with his under performance AFTER increased security measures by saying he was just playing bad from being under pressure. Now I see some Hans coper is in Hikaru's chat saying that the reason Hans didn't seem tense or focused against Magnus is because he doesn't feel pressure while playing. The cope is real, and entirely illogical.
Coping with what, there is literally zero proof Hans cheated lmao this is insane
Half of those people donât even know how to En Passant! They accuse Magnus for free
@@BoxingMMAFan1 Yes, that's what's being forgotten here, as time goes by.
We're still working without any evidence...I think It's damned likely he's been cheating, but I wont accuse the guy without evidence.
Your whole comment is illogical. Yes if the whole world was accusing you of something you didnât do, with zero proof, and everyone was believing the accuser just because they are popular then itâs entirely reasonable to assume some psychological effect. You are also completely ignoring the fact that Hans was the lowest rated player in the Sinqufield cup, which means his performance over the whole tournament was always likely to be low. Magnus/Hikaru fanboys donât ever stop to actually think evidently
@@BoxingMMAFan1 first off this isn't the court room where proof is required, we don't need proof when we have common sense. And secondly, if it were a court room, Hans' admissions to cheating in the past could be used in the same way a positive/negative character witness is used in cases that lack concrete evidence.
Hans sure has had a lot more colleagues question him than support him, so until some more concreate evidence pops up to defend him, then things are already looking bad for Hans and his fan club of low elo cheaters that appear to be defending him.
This is the biggest game of Amogus ever. Magnus sussing out the imposters by move 1.
It could also be the case that since Hans was playing best moves at some crucial points that led to Magnus playing some bad moves and thats why 43% correlation with the engine.....
5:12 âThereâs no other actual answer to all this.â
I could think of one reason that Hans doesnât give permission, assuming Hans is innocent (which isnât clear yet):
âNo Magnus, Iâm not going to agree not to sue you for defaming me so that you can openly defame me.â
you are misunderstanding the situation.
@@miked2205 No that is pretty much it. Magnus has publicly accused Hans and destroyed his reputation without any proof of his claims. Hans has said he would sue if Magnus doesn't stop.
If Hans is innocent then there is no proof that Magnus has that would prove he cheated, just more defamation. So why would he give him permission to continue to defame him?
Obviously now if Hans is guilty and Magnus has definitive proof, then he wouldn't want that to be shared either. The thing is however is that if Magnus has proof, he doesn't need to worry about a lawsuit.
The fact that he is worried about being sued if he shares more itself proves he doesn't have proof.
@@EF-wy3di No, first of all he didnât defame him legally. He said what he *believes* is the case.
Secondly, even though Hikaru explained this weirdly, he OBVIOUSLY isnât asking Hans âhey promise me you wonât sue me so I can make *definitive* statements about you cheating without proofâ.
Thereâs something else going on. Thereâs clearly some information/data out there that Magnus is aware of that Hans has OR Magnus for some reason needs his permission to discuss, that shows whether heâs innocent or not (and clearly Magnus feels is shows heâs a cheat). Has nothing to do with Magnus just wanting to be able to make definitive statements without proof and not get sued. Thatâs nonsensical.
@@EF-wy3di where does Magnus even say heâs worried about being sued? Thatâs just hikaru talking. This was clearly well thought out by Magnus. If he was worried he wouldnât have said anything at all. Again, nonsensical.
@@miked2205 Defaming has nothing to do with what you believe. It has to do with it what you said is true or not.
What information or data? Exactly why do you think it exists? Because of what Magnus is implying without proving. Aka defamation.
As a math student and hobbyists chess player, I can say one thing - it is not entirely clear to me that the anti-cheating algorithm is designed to catch "clever cheating" on 2600 + level. As many GMs said - a good chess player would only need to cheat once or twice in a game. It means, you can't statistically find it in a single game - moreover, it is extremely hard to find it statistically over many games - as a clever cheater doesn't have to use the top engine line, not even second or third. To give an example, let s say we have an already strong chess player cheating, with help from another already strong player. The optimal strategy - to cheat in a way to not be caught - is not to pick the best lines, but those that require a non-human kind of response to actually be punished. Chess is a game of mistakes, if one is sure that a given move will result in an opponent's mistake (even if the move itself, from the engine perspective, is not the best, or even a mistake) the said move shall be played. This scenario is extremely tricky.
Ps. I am speaking about chess cheating generally, not saying that Hans actually cheated.
I think Hans should defend himself with all the means he has; showing his preparation for this specific game against Carlsen, thoroughly explaining his lines, and maybe even solemnly addressing the problem through a statement in which he declares, and swears, that these accusations are, in the name of good-hearted competition, false, without insulting those who suspect his cheating. I donât think anything else will solve the problem for Hans, if he is innocent; and this attempt of defending his innocence, in my opinion, will certainly do something to his inner conscience
The only reason I donât think he cheated is because I canât fathom somebody so flawed as to devote their life to a sport and, when given the opportunity to compete against the most admired ones, simply becomes a coward and a cheater⊠I think this would injure any moral personâs inner consciousness so gravely, that a person like this wouldnât be able to sleep at all
These declarations of Magnus are quite serious, but I will still give Hans the benefit of the doubt
Underrated comment
By this logic, and I am not saying your logic is unsound, there is no way to protect the sanctity of this game. We must assume that every player at the top level is cheating or has cheated in the past. Because there is no way to prove otherwise.
@@Doncr4nk that's true according to theoretical point of view. But a seasoned player who has played 30,000+ games for 20+ years, read hundreds of books, met and discussed chess with high rated chess players to reach a 2500+ rating know the difference between a creative move, calculated move, prepared move, and top engine move. One more point: Magnus Carlsen lost hundreds of games before, even to much lower rated players and he never made a fuss about it. Instead, he often praised his opponents who beat him soundly. Heck, he even played against a lot of cheaters in online chess games and he's cool even though he lost. This is the first time in his career he straight up refused to play against someone in an OTB tournament. You get the point or do I need to spell it even more?
@@CharlesDarwinHimself I hope youâre right but to give a case for the psychology behind cheating, it may be a more common internal mental struggle than you think. When you factor in all the time and energy and dedication these guys put in, they may be tempted to get an edge to see all that hard work pay off in a material way. Elite chess tournaments are so incredibly hard to break into unless you have a stellar run of winning results. Many, many prodigies fail to eventually break into the top 20 players, and in terms of gaining the income from prize money and invitations, there just isnât the kind of money in chess to spread down to the players that arenât the very best of the very best.
Think of Lance Armstrong, or any top level athlete found to be doping - they worked incredibly hard, but they also succumbed to the temptation to give themselves an illegal edge. Cheating blatantly all the time doesnât make sense, itâs too easy to catch. But if youâre already a great player, you might be tempted to give yourself an engine nudge once in a while. Chess is a game of tiny advantages turning into winning results.
My POV is the ball is more in organizers hands than players ones.
Reminds me of when keemstar told people that if they want to clear their name after he slandered them, they need to come to his channel and make a statement.
Seems there're a couple of flaws in that.
Completely absurd to see how many fools are twisting themselves in knots to defend someone who BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION has been caught cheating multiple times and who those inside the chess world has been suspicious of for years.
Completely absurd to see people denouncing Hans' performance over the board when there has not been a single shred of evidence pointing to him either being capable or willing to do so. He has been caught cheating once by Chesscom, self admitted to cheating once more when he was 12, and the suspicious is as Magnus said was purely due to the fact he was outplayed by Black at Sinquefield.
If Hans wasn't American he wouldn't get that much support...
Those games were not even rated. It was just a casual online game when he was 12 years old. Cut the poor kid some slack.
He's been CAUGHT two times. Huge difference. No doubt he has cheated plenty of times.
@@pakman184 Once a cheater, always a cheater. Even if he is proved to be clean, Han's name would be the first one to strike amongst his peers and chess fans due to his shady past.
New chess term for cheaters: Enhansed
Dude, I called that $hit. When Hans was playing Chuckie, I was thinking the exact same thing. At times in the game your boy Hans didn't even look like he was paying attention half the time. He was looking off camera, slouched in his chair, looking completely disinterested, while simultaneously smashing him.
that's what happens to Magnus as well. and after they checked on him, he seems pretty focused in the games! but he still lost some. ANYONE would see this as weird. but it seems no one got any proof to say hans cheating. this is hard. AHH i love the drama nonetheless.
This reminds me of Lance Armstrong. For a long time people were suspicious but can't actually prove anything. I am going to trust the intuition of the guy who is the World Champion and can beat a dozen people blindfolded. If he senses something is amiss...it is probably amiss.
Itâs not magnus alone. A lot of GMs donât like (have expressed cheating concern over) Hans and all of them will now benefit while Magnus takes a social media beating alone
It just show that magnus really care about chess and the integrity of the game. He can choose to be silent about the issues(which may get worse over time) or take action against it which he did.
@@coldheaven2584 Would be nice if he could actually offer up any evidence beyond "Trust me bro"
@@flamenami dumb take
@@jaasonjones4419 dumb take to actually want evidence beyond âI think soâ???
@@flamenami yeah cuz in his statement he literally said there's more he'd like to say, but needs permission from Niemann to openly talk about it. So the fact that you say he has no evidence when he's pretty much saying 'I have more to say (most likely evidence), but need permission to go about those details without getting into legal trouble ', is dumb.
Explosive stuff.
I like the inclusion of the statement that he canât say more without permission from Hans. That really pushes the onus onto Hans. Very smart.
Pushes the onus onto Hans to give a pass for slander or calls to remove him from professional chess?? Nah, I don't think so. There's still a thing called "innocent until proven guilty" that civilized people try and live by.
Isn't that just an admission that what he has won't hold up in court?
@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 how would you go about proving it, for example, two moves in an online game?
@@APaleDot a permission to speak isnât a shield from a lawsuit. Itâs saying to niemann that I have things to say and youâre free to refute it.
Also Niemann is also a public figure so he has to prove malicious intent with his defamation lawsuit especially if he sues through US court since the major public event was in St. Louis.
Itâs actually just a trap and I hope Hans doesnât fall for it. Itâs Magnus way of saying he wants to be allowed to accuse him harder, and in a more explicit and harsh way but with no more proof than he already has (which is none)
This is literally L vs. Light in Deathnote
we have to understand the fact that Magnus did not play with Hans in the online tournament and still beat everyone stands that someone with 200 rating points below cannot beat Magnus in such a complex game so easily because Magnus believes and knows that he is very strong which is clear in his statement
I mean Hans couldnât even analyse his game during post match interview and looking at the form that Magnus is in right now, beating Magnus is not coming really easy.
In Math you can only show one proof of mistake and you can argue that the formula is wrong.
Your argument is: since Magnus beat most of the good players their is no chance that a lower rated player could beat him.
That argument can't hold in court.
Do you guys even read what you write? No chess player, no natger how good they are, has the right to declare they are too good to be beaten without cheating. Talk about maggie's form all you like, the only important form is the form during the game in question, in which the 'unbeatable' maggie played horribly
@@dante0817 nope Hans beat magnums easily ... very suspicious
@@dante0817 Nothing can be hold on court if you do not have any evidence to support your claim !!
Hikaru is as fast to make content as to play top engine moves in bullet
Free rating for Niemann every match vs Magnus EZ Clap
Niemann 5Head
Good luck getting invited to tournaments with magnus in lmao
Hans sjould play the bong cloud every time for a big đ to Magnus
@@aluminiumknight4038 You get automatically invited by ranking and wins in most tournaments. It won't be a problem for him
@@conelord1984
If the organizers know the world's best won't play with a specific person, guess who will get uninvited to keep the world champ?
His analysis of the game was with out a doubt a validation of everything Magnus said. Once a cheater always a cheater. The idea that he just suddenly shot up miraculously is bullshit. The idea that he is a genius who does not need to focus during the game under pressure, but falls apart during a post game analysis is for dum dums. He is cheating and sooner all later her will be caught again!
Nepo had a good idea of cheating (expanding on that): use a computer with human supervision (up to 3 times) in critical positions and avoid un-human moves (human supervision), using a simple electrical device(just like a radio), such as a watch or a hidden receiver in a pen, boot or inside a jacket, you can close the main circuit at the right moment to activate the receiver and using a simple protocol such as Morse code get the move at the right time.
The device can be planted before. In summary it will be hard to detect statistical anomalies when you use up to three moves to sustain advantage with human supervised moves.
It is good that this was communicated, it takes some of the mystery out of this.
Its funny, during the interviews, Hans was asked who his coach is. First he wanted to say it, but decided then to back off :)
Is it the cheater Kramnik?
I'd really like to know how Niemann cheated in his over the board game with Magnus. I haven't seen a plausible explanation of how this might have occurred, let's forget about the "beads."
@@kaizen2095 yeah but op feels uncomfortable when thinking about it, so let's forget about it
@@kaizen2095 and sometimes it almost looks like he is looking up or how I would imagine you would look when receiving signals or whatever hahahaha
Besides, just look at his face. You know he's no stranger to foreign objects in the butt
audio tooth receiver
now it's confirmed he cheated, how you feel to be wrong?
Soundtrack to this whole drama is Busta Rhymes "Woo ha, woo ha, I got you all in check."
Han's interview with Alejandro indicates something fishy. He cannot recalls most of his moves nor analyze it correctly. Even at one point, his thoughts process is already losing badly but he can't tell as Alejandro turned off the engine. Hikaru even commented "that's not a 2700 player". His alibi? Well he said he was just tired. Lol.
You do realize Magnus played Hans in several casual skittles games a while back and destroyed him. Then all of a sudden Hans is beating him in real competition. And considering Hans has a history of cheating....it seems likely he had help across the board. Im sure Magnus saw that he did the number one engine moves at all the critical times and was like, thats not how this guy plays.
On short notice at that
You do realize Magnus and many others have destroyed many young players, then suddenly gotten beaten by them.
Not saying Hans didnât cheat, but this is just a terrible argument and means anyone who improves significantly at chess is likely a cheater.
Hans is still at the age where he can make significant leaps in his improvement.
@@colinbrash i know right. Most of these comments are made by people who know nothing about chess or top gms at all. But magnus knows a lot about these things. If he's concerned, i think it makes sense to listen
You can be as sure as you want but even the worst criminals should be treated with respect and as innocents until proven otherwise
I don't think he fears a lawsuit from Hans - he fears a lawsuit from the Sinquefield Cup organizers. If you read more closely, he insinuaned that Hans cheated during their SC game, but did NOT EXPLICITLY say it. Because in order to do that he needs to directly accuse SC for poor anti-cheat measures.
Magnusâs statement says âI am limited in what I can say without explicit permission from NIEMANN to speak openlyâ so itâs definitely niemann and not sinquefield
can't be sued for just saying the truth lol
@@jinz0 Truth should be something you can prove in matter of seconds. Like water being wet.
If Magnus had definitive evidence Hans cheated he would have no need for permission to release it. Whatever supposed evidence he has must be baseless and he is afraid of legal repercussions of he were to run with it.
We have to keep letting hans play to figure out if he's cheating
The first meaningful comment I've read in here.
there's one problem with this, all results will be skewed if he's actually cheating
Well he's definitely going to take a break from cheating *IF* he's been cheating
Ya, if he's a cheater he can't stop now because he'll start losing and if he keeps cheating he's gonna get caught
Well now that the whole world is watching him I highly doubt he'd continue cheating
Hans is in a losing position here. If he says "I wasn't cheating" then he just gets called a liar by Magnus and everyone else. The only thing he can do is to stay quiet. I have no opinion on whether he did cheat or not, but he's being put in a position of guilty (in the court of public opinion) without any evidence, with the concept that he has to prove his innocence. That's basically an impossible task because any evidence he provides, everyone will just say "so what else is there". I don't, at all, agree with that. This is a screw job whether he is guilty or not.
If he is getting called a liar then he can sue them.
@@BurbenogExpert Which is why they are already calling him a liar, but using noncommittal words so they can wiggle out of it. People see that and see the best chess player in the world is calling this person a cheater. They don't see that there is no proof, no evidence, and that it is an opinion. If he gives permission to speak freely then they can say whatever they want as fact (even if there is no proof) and he can't do anything about it. If he speaks up he simply adds to the fire. His only move here is to stay quiet.
The problem is that you can't have evidence that something didn't happen. If you didn't eat cake there are no crumbs. Sometimes you can prove that you are innocent by proving that something else happened, but that doesn't really work for cheating.
@@schrodingerskatze4308 but with just suspicion is fine to go public, and destroy someones career :D
@@schrodingerskatze4308 That's exactly the problem with what is happening. They've made a game he can't possibly win and are going to continue to bully him for it. The best he can do is shut the fuck up and hope it goes away.
Since when do you need a cheaters permission to reveal evidence?
Magnus has lost games before but he never claimed anything of this extent
Because the people he lost to weren't known and proven cheaters.
@@frosty129 not true at all. Not defending Hans but a fuck ton of people have been caught cheating or attempting to cheat. Some people will doing anything to win.
if life has taught me one thing, it's: once a cheater, always a cheater
Can we start calling him Hans.exe already
Genius comment sir.
Please yes
You mean word.exe?
question where can i watch his live streams?
If you can accuse someone of cheating based only on the quality of play, competitive chess is DONE. Whether Hans did or did not cheat, they are destroying the game with these attacks. Get evidence.
Whatever it is that is still hidden by Hans, it changed Levonâs mind, and induced Fabi and Nepo to release their own podcasts.
This canât be just Magnus turned crazy or throwing a hissy fit.
When someone has cheated in anything once, they lose all their credibility.
That is very true ,
slippin jimmy
What a dumb statement
Exactly. Even if Hans is innocent of recent cheating, weathering this storm is the price he has to pay for his past cheating. He put himself in this position where people don't trust him. Ultimately each of us is responsible for the impression others have of us.
I do not regard cheating as a minor as cheating...i have never met an adult who did not cheat at something as a child, I would be extremely sceptical of anyone who claims they went through their entire childhood without cheating at least once...it is a natural progression from child to adult and every single person on earth has cheated at some game or other as a child...hans has not cheated as an adult, unless you know different so surely we cannot treat him as a cheat...yet, we need proof before we tar a person with that brush
Would love to hear Kramnik and Topolov thoughts on this
kramnik's asleep, sister. he's retired.
the whole way niemann is acting is definetely suspicious even if you dont look at chess and he seems to hide his cheating over the board pretty well but if he turns out not cheating i'll eat my shoe basicly.
The problem is its impossible to prove that he isn't cheating. The emphasis is on the accuser to prove he has chested. We have a right to hold suspicion on a previous cheater but there isn't a way to prove that he isn't cheating.
@@tomg7686 definitely true
@@tomg7686 100% accuracy in many games to a computer is good evidence in my book
Hikaru the type of dude to say not talking to the police means you are guilty