An investigation by the website Chess.com and reviewed by The Washington Post accuses Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster at the center of a controversy that also involves five-time champion Magnus Carlsen, of having Cheat in at least 100 matchesin which he “probably received unlawful assistance.”
The new accusations come after Magnus Carlsen said in a statement that, in a match he played with Hans Niemann in the Sinquefield Cup, he felt the opponent “I wasn’t tense and I wasn’t even fully focused on the game, on the tough plays.”as expected.
Magnus Carlsen suggested that “Something needs to be done about cheating” and warned: “I don’t want to play with people who have repeatedly cheated in the past because we don’t know what they are capable of in the future.” After that, Hans Niemann admitted that he cheated twice, at 12 and 16 (now 19) in online games. Never in person: “If they want me to play totally naked, I’ll do it,” he challenged.
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Now Chess.com, a platform for streaming chess games, compared the movements chosen by Hans Niemann in hundreds of games with those advised at all times by computers through artificial intelligence.
The matches were so many that, according to the site’s internal report, Niemann “has cheated more often than not” and that there are six personal encounters Niemann has with other players that “deserves more research based on these data”notes The Guardian.
But “in general, we found that Hans [Niemann] he probably cheated in over 100 online chess games, including various cash prize events. He was already 17 years old when he probably cheated in some of these games and matches. was also in transmission in 25 of those games,” the report says.
Neither of the suspected matches was heads-up with Magnus Carlsen because the investigation found no “direct evidence” of cheating. But he found “anomalies” in the evolution of Hans Niemann, who from the 800th position he commanded went on to be among the top 50 in less than two years. It is the fastest evolution in the history of modern chess and took place “much later than its peers”, quoted by the BBC.
Source: Observadora
