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jVinc | 3 years ago

> I am disappointed with Magnus. He is misusing the weight of his reputation even if cheating is a big deal in chess.

I think the unspoken truth but also the thing both chess.com and Magnus are hinting at is that Niemann has cheated a lot more than he lets on, perhaps his entire stream was built on cheating, who knows. But chess.com can't just start sharing information like that, and they are walking a fine line just with their public statement where they affirmatively assert that Niemann is underplaying the reality of his cheating. Magnus probably has insider information from chess.com but is bound by NDA and this is also why he's now challenging Niemann to give him permission to speak on the matter.

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Nokinside|3 years ago

daniel rensch from chess.com said few days ago that Magnus has no special insider information. https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/xj932e/daniel_king_i...

> So again:

>- MAGNUS has NOT seen chesscom cheat detection algorithms

>- MAGNUS was NOT given or told a list of “cheaters”

>- and he is and has completely acted 100% on his own knowledge (not sure where he got it!) and desires to this time

>I will also address a comment made to this post about Ben’s (Perp Chess) podcast and say that, yes, some top players (not Magnus!) have been invited at times, under NDA, to see what we do… and by extension, they also saw some reports of confessed cheaters (there were many more cheaters - but we only share those who confessed in writing, and only privately under the NDA). Magnus and the team from C24 are not on that list.