An nameless reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Chess’s top-ranked participant, Magnus Carlsen, has lastly spoken concerning 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 towards Hans Niemann. Niemann, in fact, was accused of dishonest towards Carlsen earlier this month, however nobody has been capable of show this, nor has a mechanism for the supposed dishonest been confirmed.
“I believe the entire world is questioning, what’s the purpose you withdrew [against Niemann]?” a newscaster with Chess24 requested. “Sadly I can not notably converse on that,” Carlsen mentioned. “However, you recognize, folks can draw their very own conclusion they usually definitely have. I’ve to say I am very impressed by Niemann’s play, and I believe his mentor Maxine Dlugy should be doing an excellent job.” “I cannot 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 cannot say extra about that topic … I hope to say slightly bit extra after the event.” Carlsen was then requested if he thought dishonest was an issue in chess. “I believe 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 downside or not, it is, I believe, pretty straightforward to cheat. On a common foundation, cheaters sooner or later, it shouldn’t be taken calmly neither on-line nor over the board.”
Chess watchers consider that by namedropping Maxine Dlugy, Carlsen is placing down extra breadcrumbs. Dlugy is is a Russian-born, American chess grandmaster who at the moment 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 planet! Go Hans!” After Niemann beat Carlsen earlier this month, Dlugy posted a congratulatory message: “Simply 16 months in the past or so, I really useful to Hans to essentially give attention to endings. He devoted lots of time to this pivotal a part of the sport and at this time I’m proud to say that his endgame play is enough 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, nevertheless, 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 a complete section delving into a few of Dlugy’s outdated Chess.com matches and mentioning that Dlugy was immediately faraway from Chess.com with no clarification: “Typically 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 individual conclusions. Draw your individual conclusions. That is all I will 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 identify, it implies that he is aware of one thing we do not know. You may’t simply drop somebody’s identify in there with out actually understanding stuff. I really feel like he is aware of one thing actually massive.”
