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Originally Posted by Skybird
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I haven't really studied the case in great detail. I kind of thought it was Carlsen being upset a 19 year old player could suddenly beat him, and somehow he felt this was impossible and therefor it must mean Niemann is cheating. I guess that might be true. Just because the guy cheated as a kid (he still is a kid), doesn't mean he is cheating now.
Carlsen is someone who is very keen of attention. Even from a very young age, chess has been his entire identity. For him, to come to grips with being beaten by a 19 year old kid, it must challenge everything he knows and believes in. Because it shows that Niemann can do in years, what took Carlsen decades..and that must hurt.
What shocked me more was the guys who cheated so blatantly at the fishing competition: (they were stuffing Walleye with lead)
https://www.themeateater.com/fish/wa...eating-scandal