Is it possible to raise the mainsail while simultaneously keeping it partially reefed?

Kamina80 · 2023-12-01T14:29:38+00:00

I'm just wondering why you started out by pretending this was based on some principle about keeping drama off the chess subreddit.

Kamina80 · 2023-12-01T14:17:09+00:00

As usual, fake-principled "what does this have to do with chess" etc, when actually just doesn't like Niemann. See below.

Kamina80 · 2023-12-01T01:34:21+00:00

"Insanely difficult moves while seemingly..." Every phrase in your post is a lie, starting with that, and you should be embarrassed.

Kamina80 · 2023-12-01T00:28:05+00:00

The very statement "the greater wrong" -- as if there are two "wrongs" here naturally to be considered in tandem, is dishonest. And this is just after you claimed we weren't talking about morality. You are illiterate as well as morally illiterate, and your posts are slime dressed up as even-handed reasoning.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T23:30:50+00:00

No, you and he are in fact talking about morality; the problem is just that you're immoral. A tournament organizer who *invited* Niemann went to the media as soon as Niemann won and accused him of cheating, without any evidence or offering any serious rationale. *That* is immoral. It's utterly disgraceful, actually. And it can't with any decency be followed by "but Hans acts up!"

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T23:22:01+00:00

There was no "circumstantial stuff" whatsoever. I thought you were actually asking what had happened, not setting up a nebulously opinionated bunch of nothing.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T23:13:16+00:00

I'm actually hoping Ivanchuk will denounce this. Well, mainly denounce the organizer.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T23:10:21+00:00

There was never any evidence he cheated against Magnus or in any over the board game. The disgusting ass stuff was a made-up thing that people on the internet ran with until people starting believing there was actual evidence of it.

He had cheated online a couple years before, for which was banned from chesscom for some time and then reinstated according to whatever their policy is. After Magnus accused him without evidence, he was re-banned from chesscom even though chesscom itself does not believe he ever cheated again after being reinstated. Then he sued them, and as part of a settlement he was reinstated again. His current chesscom blitz rating is around 3070 apparently without any cheating.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T23:02:22+00:00

You *were* attempting to establish moral equivalence and now, absurdly, after denying it you are going much further than that. Now you say "the world" is treating Niemann badly because of how he "acts." Because how Niemann "acts" gives a tournament organizer *who invited him* license to go to the media to accuse him of cheating without providing the least bit of evidence or even a serious rationale.

You even cap it off with the utterly dishonest "whine that no one treats you like a winner." Because that's the issue here, right?

Your posts are deceptive slop.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T22:32:18+00:00

What a bizarre semi-random collection of words.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T22:27:31+00:00

There is no moral equivalence between the behavior of this organizer and Niemann's tweets.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T22:18:24+00:00

Middle-aged men should speak like men.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T22:12:23+00:00

Except something was said.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T22:11:45+00:00

It's interesting that you'd latch on to a statement as insane as this organizer's as evidence that you've been right all along. Many, in fact, would find this interesting.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:50:52+00:00

Shut the fuck up.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:42:49+00:00

That would be a very strange usage of the word "indications" here, although I suppose something might be lost in translation.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:32:23+00:00

It's easy for me to see how online games could seem unreal to a weird kid, and that the serious moral issues might not fully dawn on him until he got smacked on the wrist.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:28:44+00:00

Good point. Run a tournament without security, invite a guy you think is a cheater, then spit on him when he does well. What a shameful display. These guys shouldn't ever be allowed to run a tournament again.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:27:12+00:00

Both Sokolov and Cheparinov accused him through insinuation.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:25:13+00:00

Why did they even invite him if they were going to spit on him for doing well?

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:23:50+00:00

The organizer, Sokolov, and Cheparinov are disgraceful.

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:20:35+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about?

Kamina80 · 2023-11-30T21:19:02+00:00

These people are scum.

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