An nameless reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Chess’s top-ranked participant, Magnus Carlsen, has lastly spoken in regards to the ongoing alleged dishonest scandal that has rocked the chess world for the final a number of weeks and was reignited when Carlsen resigned in protest after making one transfer in opposition to Hans Niemann. Niemann, in fact, was accused of dishonest in opposition to Carlsen earlier this month, however nobody has been capable of show this, nor has a mechanism for the supposed dishonest been confirmed.
“I feel the entire world is questioning, what’s the motive you withdrew [against Niemann]?” a newscaster with Chess24 requested. “Sadly I can not significantly communicate on that,” Carlsen mentioned. “However, you understand, folks can draw their very own conclusion and so they actually have. I’ve to say I am very impressed by Niemann’s play, and I feel his mentor Maxine Dlugy should be doing a fantastic job.” “I can’t touch upon that,” he added when requested if he was accusing Niemann of dishonest. He was then requested if he was accusing Dlugy, who’s a chess grandmaster, of serving to Niemann cheat: “No, I can’t say extra about that topic … I hope to say a bit of bit extra after the event.” Carlsen was then requested if he thought dishonest was an issue in chess. “I feel particular person folks will reply the query in a different way relying on their very own experiences. No matter whether or not it is a huge drawback or not, it is, I feel, pretty straightforward to cheat. On a common foundation, cheaters sooner or later, it shouldn’t be taken frivolously neither on-line nor over the board.”
Chess watchers imagine that by namedropping Maxine Dlugy, Carlsen is placing down extra breadcrumbs. Dlugy is is a Russian-born, American chess grandmaster who presently operates the Chess Max Academy in Manhattan. In July, Dlugy posted a photograph with “my pupil Hans Niemann,” congratulating him on “turning into a high 50 participant on the earth! Go Hans!” After Niemann beat Carlsen earlier this month, Dlugy posted a congratulatory message: “Simply 16 months in the past or so, I really helpful to Hans to actually deal with endings. He devoted plenty of time to this pivotal a part of the sport and at the moment I’m proud to say that his endgame play is ample to beat the reigning World Champion from a greater place. That is highly effective! Hans Niemann — Chess speaks for itself!”
Redditors had been fast to level out, nonetheless, that Dlugy has his personal controversy. Dlugy has been eliminated twice from a weekly Chess.com event known as Titled Tuesday, in 2017 and 2020. Benjamin Bok, a chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer, for instance, made an entire section delving into a few of Dlugy’s previous Chess.com matches and mentioning that Dlugy was out of the blue faraway from Chess.com with no clarification: “Usually that solely means one factor,” Bok mentioned, not elaborating on what it means, however closely implying that it means he was caught dishonest. “Draw your personal conclusions. Draw your personal conclusions. That is all I’ll say.” “Query turns into: Is maybe Dlugy Hans’ confederate, in case Hans is dishonest? We’ll have to attend and see,” Bok says. “However the truth that Magnus makes that assertion and drops his title, it implies that he is aware of one thing we do not know. You possibly can’t simply drop somebody’s title in there with out actually figuring out stuff. I really feel like he is aware of one thing actually large.”