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What if Magnus is simply tilted? That would be sad, but IMHO it seems more plausible every day. His silence is not playing strongly in his favor.
by stephc_int13 4y ago
What if Magnus is simply tilted? That would be sad, but IMHO it seems more plausible every day.
His silence is not playing strongly in his favor.
- Victerius 4y agoThere are two possibilities. Either Hans Niemann cheated, or he didn't. If he cheated, we will never know, unless he confesses. If he didn't cheat, it would be humiliating for Carlsen. In any case, chess tournaments need to increase their security to make even the mere appearance of cheating impossible.
- stephc_int13 4y ago>There are two possibilities. Either Hans Niemann cheated, or he didn't. Yeah, sure, but in this case, any player could cheat, not only Hans. Magnus could have been cheating during all those years...
- dawsmik 4y agoThere are two possibilities. Either Hans Niemann cheated AGAIN, or he didn't.
- rowanG077 4y agoWhy are you repeating what the person you replied to said?
- threatofrain 4y agoOne person is talking about how accusations which affect credibility ought to be handled. The other person is noting that credibility has already been damaged by prior to this event.
- elteto 4y agoHe is updating his Bayesian priors.
- hn92726819 4y ago> There are two possibilities ... Wrong. Carlsen could have resigned in protest of the player and the current game doesn't matter.
- tomComb 4y agoWhat is the prevailing analysis odd the Sinquefield Cup game that Magnus lost? Did Magnus play badly?
- stephc_int13 4y agoSome analysts said that his play was not stellar during this game.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoYes, engine analysis shows that Magnus played extremely poorly. Niemann doesn’t even play that well, it’s just that Magnus plays worse. The most surprising fact for me from this whole controversy is discovering that Carlsen actually has a rabid fan base who will gladly ignore reality if it goes against him. Chess is actually not that different from football.
- Zacharias030 4y agoDo you have a good source? If you analyze Carlsen‘s games versus weaker players, you will find situations where he willingly plays suboptimal lines to take the weaker opponent out of his prep. The reason being that a draw is not enough for Carlsen in these situations. I‘m curious to see their game analyzed with this taken into account.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoI don’t really see what you mean by "this taken into account". Magnus likes to play lines with little advantage and theory on purpose to try to score points against weaker opponents. Even played on purpose these lines remain quite poor. When the opponent plays somewhat accurately that leads to draw-ish to losing positions. You can get to the full analysis from the board in this news coverage: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-sinquefield-cup-round-3 https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-sinquefield-cup-round-3 I can’t find a way to link directly to it. Chess.com is pretty annoying. Carlsen also plays the endgame unusually poorly.
- oldstrangers 4y agoOnly thing to be tilted about is a rampant cheater being allowed to continue competing professionally.
- kthejoker2 4y ago"Rampant" Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary evidence.
- oldstrangers 4y agoYeah, chess.com gave that evidence to Hans. He's been mute on that.