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> They didn’t find any instances of cheating after August 2020 They banned him after August 2020, and only reinstated him after a full confession the next year
by msbarnett 4y ago
> They didn’t find any instances of cheating after August 2020
They banned him after August 2020, and only reinstated him after a full confession the next year.
The fact that, after having being caught red handed in online for-prize tournaments and knowing he’s being monitored very closely online going forward, he suddenly starts rising at a world-historic pace (at an age this has never before happened at) at OTB tournaments suggests to me that having lost the ability to reliably cheat in one forum he turned his attention to another.
- gbear605 4y agoThey reinstated him January of the following year, only five months later.
- msbarnett 4y agoHe was (and still is) banned from prize money tournaments even after that partial re-instatement. Regardless, there's obviously a huge difference between "no evidence he cheated after August 2020" (wow, guess his heart grew 3 sizes that month) and "no evidence he cheated after a 5 month ban which required him to beg to get his account back, made it very clear to him that they were watching him like a hawk, and they wouldn't let him play in tournaments even after that" (not exactly indicative of an unprompted improvement in his morals).