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> Hikaru talking about the cheating allegation against him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2R--_fBj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2R--_fBj0 He seems ve
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> Hikaru talking about the cheating allegation against him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2R--_fBj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2R--_fBj0
He seems very amused by the accusation in that video.
Regarding his video to me this sounds like if you were to ask Djokovic to play 46 tennis matches versus players ranked between 5 and 400 in the world, could he win 45 out of 46 matches and draw one game (not possible in tennis but hey)?
I mean: Djokovic literally won 41 matches in a row, including several matches against opponent from the top 5.
From the opponents' list, it looks like there was no Magnus Carlsen and not any top 5 players in the world?
Is it that surprising that a world champion crushes competition like that?
I don't know but I'm not that suprised.
P.S: I'm making a tennis analogy because Hikaru likes and plays tennis
- p1necone 3y ago> this sounds like if you were to ask Djokovic to play 46 tennis matches versus players ranked between 5 and 400 in the world, could he win 45 out of 46 matches and draw one game (not possible in tennis but hey)? Not quite, it's more like watching Djokovic's match record until he gets a really good streak and then calling that particular run out as unlikely. It being specifically 46 matches is just because that's the particular length of data that Kramnik cherry picked to do his analysis on.
- hilux 3y agoUnlike a chess game, a tennis match can't be lost with a single "blunder," unless it's a serious injury ... so I'm not sure it's a good analogy, mathematically speaking. We should ask Marc Esserman.
- rplnt 3y agoThe chances Djokovic isn't cheating are very low though.
- sn0n 3y agoI'm going to need a statistical analysis of Hikaru's Tennis matches before I can assume anything. Surely he's cheating at tennis if he's cheating at Chess....