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Nobel prize or not, evidence is needed. Nobel prize is sort of orthogonal to the situation where many other Nobel prize winners also have reservations about the
by systemvoltage 4y ago
Nobel prize or not, evidence is needed. Nobel prize is sort of orthogonal to the situation where many other Nobel prize winners also have reservations about the accusation including Gary Kasparov and Fabiano Caruana. Magnus can’t play God, sorry. Eh, let’s call Caruana Fields medalist :-).
- pfortuny 4y agoEvidence of what? Has Carlssen explicitly said "This guy has cheated?" He has only said "I cannot speak because I would be in such a big trouble that I am not willing to do so". It is not so trivial as "prove it" when you only have a deep, serious, professional conviction.
- ithkuil 4y agoJust curious if there is any other plausible motivation other than cheating. Some personal issue? Blackmail?
- dwild 4y ago> Has Carlssen explicitly said "This guy has cheated?" How would you explain his reaction then? He didn't explicitly said that, but he certainly implicitly said that, which is essentially the same in this situation.
- TrackerFF 4y agoI don't think there's not going to be any binary or absolute outcome in this - if Niemann is actually (formally) accused of cheating. Best thing would probably be some statistical analysis, and some likelihood of the moves made. And in the end, someone will probably conclude that there's a x% chance that cheating occurred. With that said - at this level, I don't know how you differentiate true outlier moves, from the player just being incredibly apt at the game? I've heard that one way of identifying algorithmic / computer programs, is that the moves can extremely weird compared to what a human player would have done.