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Cheating and Social Media: Signs of the Times
Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 10:44PM
Here's a sad story, on multiple levels.
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Here's a sad story, on multiple levels.
Reader Comments (3)
A typical case of the Law of large numbers; it was only a matter of time.
I dislike this possibility thoroughly, so I don't play any online chess.
It might be the most prominent case - not even this as Carlsen once faced an apparent cheater in chess24 banter blitz. Maybe it tops the "Then it got ugly" category.
But it is far from the only case in the "online era".
[DM: I don't think I claimed that it was the only case. (If I did, it was some sloppy writing on my part. Online cheating was probably committed within five minutes of the advent of online gaming.) The point of the post was what you noted in the second sentence.]
I could have clarified things with "@MNb": I referred to his "it was only a matter of time" - though it isn't clear whether this refers to cheating or to subsequent ugliness. Your own writing (one sentence) was too short to be sloppy or ambiguous ... .
[DM: Don't underestimate me.]
This article https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/8312.pdf from an English perspective is from August 2020, it includes - directed at organizers - "Be prepared to receive a lot of grumpy, time-draining emails and phone calls on specific cases." I m currenlty busy with one case myself - as tournament director of an online event with minor prize money and three titled players (two FMs, one IM, two of them rating-wise comparable to Levy Rozman). So I appreciated the link - "I enjoyed reading" would be the wrong choice of words, rather "sounds somewhat familiar".