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amrit3128yesterday at 6:05 PM4 repliesview on HN

For anyone new, Kramnik has been accusing players left and right of cheating without any proof. His accusations have done huge harm to the chess community as a whole. Daniel Naroditsky was harrassed so much, that he eventually went into depression and committed suicide. And he had proven ability as one of the best chess players out there, and probably the best chess teacher on YouTube. These are facts.

Now onto my probably crazy conspiracy theory: Russian players like Danil, Nepo and Kramnik have accused American and Indian players baselessly of cheating multiple times over the past few years. They have went to podcasts and implied that their opponents have cheated. Idk if it's some lost national pride in chess or something but accusing others does more harm than good. We've seen how it hurt Hans when he was accused by Magnus of cheating without any evidence. Multiple top level tournaments stopped calling him due to magnus throwing a tantrum cuz he lost.


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JoshTriplettyesterday at 6:26 PM

> Daniel Naroditsky was harrassed so much, that he eventually went into depression and committed suicide.

Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Naroditsky ? (Still a tragedy, though; any death is.)

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V__yesterday at 6:12 PM

Any normal human should have stopped and thought about their actions after Daniels passing.. Daniel will be missed and Kramnik hopefully forgotten.

tinyhouseyesterday at 6:48 PM

Are we talking about online chess cheating? Aren't players eventually need to show up and play in-person?

EGregyesterday at 6:08 PM

What about the famous case of Carlsen claiming that his opponent cheated and even forfeiting to draw attention to it?

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