Cheating at Chess in Chicago?!?!?!
18.06.2024
A player at the Chicago Open 2024 was caught cheating at an over the board tournament.
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This is fraud! Remember what happened to that competitive fishing team recently caught โweightingโ their catch after netting over 100k in tournaments. Call the cops, this dude has a Shawshank vacation coming.
Kinda bogus that Dane took most of the credit when it was really Anuj that did most of the work and the one that spotted the cheating (phone in his lap) in the first place.
I dont know why ppl are so hush hush about cheaters name . Stan Halstead is the guy who cheated
A public apology is needed.
Better call Kramnik
What is the matter between alireza and hikaru, anyone tel
Who the fuck do you think you are? Destroying me in my last small pp pride spot where Magnus doesn't outshine me.
Let me apologize in private.
One good way to handle this would be to have cams all over the tournament. So any particular game at any point in time could be reviewed.
I wish we had a video of him, cheating, hilarious.
Hikaru aggresively deleting comments about Alireza ๐
Stop acting like a child, Hikaru
A cheater's chess speaks for itself.
Thanks Hikaru!
Watching your content and doing puzzles has been a massive help!
Who tf does this guy think he is?
I understand why Hikaru don't want to go to reddit right now
Hold on guys, so the cheater is NM Anthony Levin?
One person I played at a tournament actually just stole a pawn off the board to convert the entire position to a win for me to completely lost, told the arbiters, and they said unless someone had seen the pawn on the board, we had to play it as it was unless the other player admitted to it.
He does not just look down and play. He has to play the moves on his phone as well.
That is just lazy referees! Is a shame that the this dumb thing still happening and organizers are just lazy.
"Don't go to Reddit" – great way to control the narrative Hikaru. lol
Very disheartening that the cheaterโs results stood for all other rounds and that it took 6 rounds for him to be caught!
Please stop being a a**hole and be a better human being. Stop making yourself look like an idiot.
FWIW, if Hikaru made public insults and publicly humiliated others — which he did — then he should reconcile publicly, as well as privately. To be clear, he is under no obligation to do so. But if he doesn't, many people — like me — will absolutely see him differently moving forward. I almost unsubscribed last night, but I want to hold some space. I know what it's like to make a public mistake, and it's only fair to be given some patience and compassion, in the hope that one will put their ego aside and be socially responsible. It's unsettling knowing that Hikaru is capable of such immaturity, but hey, he's human. We all lose it from time to time, especially when frustrated or upset. It's really not the end of the world.
And yes, some people may remain angry or vitriolic, but I am one who has learned to forgive and let live. I'm rooting for him to recover from this as much as I was rooting for him to win the Candidates.
Eh, pull in some security experts from Vegas for a think-tank session and see what their thoughts are on setting up some sort of system that could be replicated and installed at tournaments. It probably comes down to number of cameras and positioning to capture angles of each game to allow for review after the fact. They probably can't have the unnamed cheater return money won because they can't prove he was cheating. They can say his play was suspicious enough to bar him/her from future events (as a private entity can do at their discrection), but don't have enough evidence to defend a case in court to have money returned. So camera footage on all games that can be manually reviewed after the fact can be like the last step in the process of proving someone was cheating (because that will probably be the most labor intensive part) after an engine determines that the player was playing outside of what would be considered normal for their rating.
๐คก๐คก๐คกHe thinks he can just pretend like insulting Alireza's family didn't happen…and arrogantly put out, "content" in hopes people will forget…what a COMPLETE POS!….๐คก๐คก๐คก
"You cant do this to me Danny, I forfeit now. I forfeit"
Strongly Disagree, not only is Statistics a valid method, but its the best possible method.
Yet Kramnik is not a Statistician, he is a Grandmaster with a calculator,
He should stfu and get a Degree in Statistic, like the rest of us.
this is so stupid….. this is F tier in cheating if ur gonna cheat…. like this is what people in elementary school do…. rookie move.
Disrect Speed run more
Thanks for covering this! It's been almost a month now. It is still unclear whether or not the five players who lost to the cheater are ever going to get their points refunded? The USCF rules of assuming he didn't cheat unless caught are absurd. It should be assumed that a confirmed cheater used the phone in the previous games as well!
Statistics do work when you're caught
was this a CCA event?
There is no proof he was cheating, he was just checking if his duck was nicely placed for media… stop making a drama ๐๐ฅฒ๐ค
Alireza, his dad, and his brother are all crazies!!!
Why are phones allowed in a OTB tournament with prize money?
Hikaru's reaction to reddit has increased my respect for him a bit
Hikaru's reaction to reddit has increased my respect for him a bit
are you allowed to write notes during chess game? im just interested hehe ๐
are you allowed to write notes during chess game? im just interested hehe ๐
" whu tf u think u r"๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
" whu tf u think u r"๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
I think the reason the cheater was not named is because they were a minor.
I think the reason the cheater was not named is because they were a minor.
Just came to say I'm sad for Hikaru because of his drama with Alireza and him btinging back the Chessbrah's old big drama… I hope he's doing fine.
I also agree with the second point! I play a guy once and he was playing fast and going for a walk outside occasionally. I started having doubt because he was leaving the building during the game. After I lost, I analyse the game with an engine and turn out I was winning pretty much all the time (+2) and he made a lot of blunders and inaccuracy. Turn out I start blundering when I started having doubt. In short, I just suck lol
Didnโt get caught for a thousand points. Cheating is a plague where FIDE canโt detect it.
GM Hikaru , love your work. That outburst was a surprise.๐
Hikaru: Now that I am in a tough spot, I am going to throw people the bone of a cheating scandal somewhere to divert attention. Damage control at it finest.
Hikaru has issues just like every other human being. I am glad that Hikaru has apologized to Alireza and I hope that this event will help Hikaru grow. Whether or not he is friends with his competitors is up to him, but I really hope it doesnโt cause any more drama as it is not needed no matter who is right or wrong.
Crazy! I didn't even know about this until I saw this video and I played in the exact tournament 2024 Chicago Open, in the exact U2100 section as the cheater (fortunate enough not to play him). This is absolutely outrageous, you can easily find the name of the cheater if you google, '2024 Chicago Chess Open Cheater' and scroll down a little to find a WordPress site about him cheating Caissa. This is very shocking to hear and I hope he gets the consequences of his actions.