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Some background:
19 year old grandmaster Hans Neimann has statistically unusually risen up the ranks of leading chess players. He has admitted to cheating a couple of times online when he was 12 and 16 but chess.com has analysed his games and concluded he likely cheated over 100 times. However, they did not find evidence of cheating in over the board games.

Recently he beat 5 time world champion Magnus Carlson playing black. Magnus implied he cheated as did Hikaru Nakamoto. It was hypothesised he used vibrating anal beads to cheat.

Hans is now suing Magnus, Hikaru & chess.com for $100m.

Did Hans cheat via anal morse code?

metro.co.uk

'Anal beads' chess master sues world champion for $100,000,000

Niemann said he's being shunned by tournament organisers since the accusations.
metro.co.uk metro.co.uk
 
He has admitted to cheating. There is a fair amount of evidence that he has cheated at other times, which he has not admitted. This is not proof that he has cheated this time, if we are talking about the standards of criminal evidence. But we aren't. Still, if there's nothing but suspicion that he's cheated, going by his pattern of play, he might win. I am not a lawyer. or even much of a chessplayer.
 
Playing on Chess.com, my rating briefly snuck above 2000. (Sadly it didn't stay there for long.) You get a message saying 'well done and we're watching you'. I don't know if their claims are correct, but they claim to be able to detect cheating through your choice of moves and to be very good at it.

I dunno. I was accused of cheating by someone I was playing on there once. I wasn't, but there was no shifting him. He pompously stated that he could tell and he'd looked at my previous games and while I didn't realise it, it was obvious to an experienced player. But he was wrong. Sour grapes cos he fucked up his opening by not paying a blind bit of attention to what I was doing, and he was an experienced club player, me a self-confessed amateur...

Presumably their checks are rather better.

It's horrible to be falsely accused of cheating with no way of proving otherwise, btw. :(
 
This thread may inspire me to start playing chess on chess.com, as a self-confessed amateur. I signed up ages ago to play someone that for various reasons never happened, and then I just played bots. Switched to Lichess, as they had more interesting bots. But there are actual people out there, weirdly.
 
ouirdeaux said:
This thread may inspire me to start playing chess on chess.com, as a self-confessed amateur. I signed up ages ago to play someone that for various reasons never happened, and then I just played bots. Switched to Lichess, as they had more interesting bots. But there are actual people out there, weirdly.
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Used to be a few of us from Urban that played on there. I stopped a while ago as I was getting a bit obsessed with it. :D Also I reached a level where I realised I'd need to study more chess theory to get better. But studying chess theory is really boring.

I hate playing computers. Either you set them at a level you can beat and beat them in a really boring way, or you set them at a level where they win and they beat you in a really boring way. It's no fun either way.
 
Ah ok. I thought it was more like moving a few pawns when nobody's looking...
That's what I'd do anyway, but I'm not very good at neither chess nor cheating.
 
I reckon you could just about get away with it if you'd use a second computer - a very small one of course - and wouldn't tell anybody about it. Not even your mum.
 
There are certain kinds of mistakes that computers never make. Analysis flags up players when they're found also never to make those mistakes.

Hard to prove though. And other players aren't necessarily the best witnesses. Chess is insanely competitive and sour grapes grow freely.
 
Hans Niemann's $100 Million Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed GM Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit against GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.com, the Play Magnus Group, and IM Daniel Rensch. This means that, at least for the moment, the legal battle that followed cheating allegations toward Niemann, causing a scandal covered by media all over the world, is over.

U.S. district judge Judge Audrey Fleissig noted that "counts 3 and 4" were dismissed with prejudice
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Yan allegedly clenched and unclenched rhythmically to communicate information about the chess board via code to a computer
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although the ability to send morse code messages with your arse must be a noteworthy skill...
 
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