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Here's a better question: What are the odds that a cheating accusation accurately identifies an instance of cheating? I don't say this lightly: Kramnik very l

Here's a better question: What are the odds that a cheating accusation accurately identifies an instance of cheating? I don't say this lightly: Kramnik very likely has some sort of untreated psychiatric disorder. He is effectively a lolcow in the chess community because he regularly (as in, almost daily) accuses much better chess players of cheating. It's honestly a bit undignified to treat his accusation against Nakamura as anything other than a man yelling at the sky.

bombcar 1y ago
There’s some strange inverse, where situations we KNOW are rife with cheating have few accusations thereof (bike racing perhaps), and those that are almost certainly very rare may also have few accusations (because it’s rare). Sometimes you have to treat any accusation as “real” just to keep the cheaters at bay. (Cheating at online bridge is rampant, and cheating at bridge competitions was and perhaps still is fraught with many scandals). It’s often common that the cheaters really ARE very good players - they’re just looking for less work, not a goal they couldn’t obtain otherwise.