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Chess bot all but confirms Hans Niemann has been cheating for years


How do you cheat at live chess?  A player may have figured it out.

How do you cheat at live chess? A player can have find out.
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This movie is a gift that never stops giving. Maybe it’s because there’s never been any drama in the chess community. How can there be a game that is literally rooted in skill? If you lose, the odds are that your opponent is just better than you. I know I thought it was impossible to cheat in chess, but here we are, writing about this drama again.

To make it short, on Monday, the world’s best player Magnus Carlsen officially accused grandmaster Hans Niemann of cheating in the match they had at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis a few weeks ago. There has long been speculation that Carlsen believes Niemann was cheating, but two days ago, Carlsen released an official statement on the matter.

While some of the big names in the chess community have defended Carlsen, claiming that Niemann was playing uncharacteristically and acting strangely after the game, there has never been any hard evidence that Niemann was using a chess tool to eat his moves in his match. I’m not sure there will ever be. I doubt anyone will find wires, electronics or Anal beads that Niemann raised his sleeve (or another area) in that match against Carlsen. All anyone can really do to advance the investigation is analyze the game. Well, someone actually took the time to do so, and suddenly, the fraud allegations against Niemann seem much more believable.

On Sunday, Yosha Iglesiasa growing chess Youtuber, posted a video using an online software called ChessBase to watch Niemann’s match against Carlsen. ChessBase also helps to determine engine scores for specific moves. For those who don’t know, muscle score basically determines how good a move is based on how a chess engine, designed to play perfectly, will play. For context, most world champions play at around 70-75 percent engine points. According to Iglesias, at the peak of Carlsen’s career, Carlsen was only playing at 70%. In Bobby Fischer’s famous 20-game winning streak, he’s playing at 72%.

It’s not super uncommon to play a single game at 100 percent, but on multiple occasions? Now, things are getting suspicious. The only time someone has consistently reached near 100 percent in recent history was Sébastien Feller, who achieved 98 percent optimal play at a tournament circa 2010. Later, the Chess Federation France determined that Feller had cheated by communicating with two other players. Basically, international master Cyril Marzolo stayed at home and was fed Feller moves by grandmaster Arnaud Hauchard. Marzolo would then feed those moves into a chess engine, sending coded messages to Hauchard letting him know what Feller’s best move would be. Then Hauchard, who was sitting in the same hall where Feller was playing, would sit at a table within Feller’s line of sight. Based on the table Hauchard sat at, Feller would know what moves to make. It seemed complicated, and it was. The scheme was not immediately discovered, but eventually chess officials caught and banned Feller from competing for more than two years.

The point of that story is to show how unlikely a sequence of games is in board chess. Niemann, however, has more than a few such games, including one against Cristhian Camilo Rios in the second round of the Sharjah Masters on September 18, 2021 where Niemann played the perfect engine in 45 consecutive moves. If that’s not evidence of fraud, I don’t know what is.

Like Feller, Niemann has vehemently denied any charges against him. However, as more and more evidence like this becomes available, it becomes increasingly difficult to defend him. How can he explain playing so perfectly? Is he the greatest player of all time? No, he admit to cheating in the past, and as many other grandmasters have explained, Niemann’s demeanor after the match against Carlsen was suspiciously aloof. The ball is in Niemann’s field. While the smoking gun has yet to be found, the data against Niemann has been pretty gruesome. He has to issue a statement explaining these crazy events. Otherwise, all we can do is speculate, and the community’s speculation is not in Niemann’s favor.



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