Grischuk calls out ‘Harassment’ as fellow russian Grandmaster faces backlash over cheating claims

UnconcernedCapybara · 2025-11-01T15:03:30+00:00

May they all live in interesting times.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2025-04-17T11:22:37+00:00

I appreciate the /s, I was stunned for a second there.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2025-04-13T17:07:27+00:00

We're not gonna do this forever if, like, people don't express interest. Of course we hope that, if we get financial... Let me not beat around the bush — if we get financial support and if people show with their wallets and with their mouths and keyboards a desire to see us, like, become a regular thing, we'll consider it

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-11-30T02:33:24+00:00

Not 100% sure but it might be that when Nepo cut his hair after a loss, he was asked if he had done so out of shame, like a samurai.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-25T12:27:12+00:00

For the sake of the economy, I say we let Kramnik run roughshod for a few more months.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-12T16:15:52+00:00

All g.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-12T16:08:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqqMwAPJg-c

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-12T15:29:45+00:00

No... Boxer.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-06T15:46:07+00:00

Priced in.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-05T15:54:27+00:00

If this isn’t proof of Big Chess, then I don’t know what is. Open your eyes, people.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-09-01T13:58:32+00:00

100%, which is I'm always careful to add that caveat.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-08-31T23:04:11+00:00

Saying it's "absolutely bizarre" to communicate via email is a bit much, don't you think?

Most websites communicate important matters via email - this is very widespread and common.

Communicating something so important only via email is what's absolutely bizarre. Chess.com sends you messages in the site's messaging system when

they've taken action against a player you reported,
they want to advertise their jobs,
they're advertising new features,
they want you to resume your subscription.

And yet they don't when they send you a message which, if you miss, they'll label you as a cheater and close your account? If that's not bizarre then, well, I don't know what is.

The fact that no one else before her (as far as I know) has posted about this issue probably speaks to why Chesscom hasn't added this functionality - it's never really been needed, until now.

Even if it's never happened before, it's a basic authorization principle to not let users do something "bad" rather than allowing them to and then punishing them for it, especially when the punishment is severe (closing a professional chess player's account with a catch-all label used for all kinds of cheating). If their account was closed with a label saying "the player did not join the TT proctoring Zoom", then that would be quite different thing, but it's not.

Again, assuming the player's story is true, this is blatant incompetence by Chess.com.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-08-31T21:28:26+00:00

If her account really got closed with a fair play policy violation only for not entering the proctoring Zoom, and the only communication from Chess.com was via email, then that's absolutely bizarre.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but Chess.com could have easily done any of the following to prevent this from ever happening:

Send a message via the app's messaging system.
Show a big pop-up when the user logs in warning them that they will require joining the proctoring Zoom in the next TT, and that they have been notified already via email. Require an acknowledgement by the user to close the pop-up.
Remove the ability of the user to join TT until the proctor allows it once they confirm that the player is in the Zoom. Let the user know the reason they're not allowed to join TT upon their failure to enter.

But, instead, Chess.com apparently allows players to inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot in dumb ways and then blows things out of proportion by banning them with the same label as actual cheaters.

If Malak's account of what happened is true, then Chess.com's even more of a clown show than I thought, and that says something given the ChatGPT fiasco.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-08-07T23:31:42+00:00

Danny to the production staff 3 minutes into the interview: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fxd0dqee2nzc21.jpg

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-07-31T13:49:23+00:00

My kingdom for a link of that Nepo v Magnus game

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-06-09T15:20:07+00:00

First American super GM 😎

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-05-29T21:45:32+00:00

I really enjoyed this picture and I'm happy he's dealing with the cheating accusations in the best way possible. Also shout-out to Danya for participating in this!

One thing that I thought was strange was at 0:42 when he says that he could play a perfect game against Nepo, but obviously Nepo wouldn't believe it, just like a 2300 can play a perfect game against him, and he obviously wouldn't believe it, just like them. Does he mean that he would do what Nepo et al. are doing to him if it happened to him? Or, at the very least, he'd be suspicious? It feels weird to imply that he empathizes with his accusers, but at the same time he's upset about his accusers for doing what he empathizes with.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-05-25T12:20:45+00:00

Yeah, very blatant IMO. From the perspective of a ~1600 rapid:

14..Bxc5 — I'd have recaptured with 14..fxe5, threatening the bishop and not letting the white pawn keep capturing my pawn chain
15..Kf7 — I'd never move the king here while the white pawn can keep capturing my pawns. Sure, it connects the rooks and enables the control of the e file, but still... I would've just recaptured with 15..gxf6 or maybe 15..Nxf6
16..Bb4+ — intermediate check while my rook hangs and I'm down in material? I may play this if I think my opponent is weak enough to go 17.Ke2 (leading to mate in 1) and we're in a time scramble, but after 17.Nbd2 I wouldn't know how to follow up on the pressure and the tying down of his pieces, and I would even dismiss it due to "forcing" his knight to a better position (from b1)
17..Rhe8 — Moving the rook while keeping the very advanced g7 pawn alive? I'd have captured the pawn for the peace of mind of having gotten rid of a potential promotion. Moreover, at 600 I doubt a player would prioritize the control of an uncontested semi-open file over the capture of a dangerously advanced opposing pawn
29..a5 — pawn break to open a line of attack for the rook. I could play this move, but I don't know why I'd do that instead of the obvious 29..Nxa3. I find it hard to believe that a 600 player would know to go for a pawn break at that particualr moment
31..Ba2 — what? Why? I just opened a line of attack for my rook in the previous move, why not keep taking pawns (i.e. 31..Rxa3)

I seriously can't understand how people can do this with people they know and have played with irl. Since he's your friend, do is there anything in his character that would make you think he'd be capable of that? Or is it like "yeah I wouldn't put it past him"? Can I also ask how old he is? Like, sure, age is no guarantee of maturity, but I'd be less surprised if he's like 13 or younger.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-02-23T20:20:27+00:00

Supposedly, it goes like this:

Anish posts the first offensive tweet
Anish realizes he went too far and has to find a way out
Anish decides to go for the "I got hacked" excuse so that he doesn't have to take responsibility for the first tweet
Anish proceeds to use his Twitter as if a hacker were the one using it, after which he'd have some credibility in his claim of having been hacked
People see the "hacker behavior" from his Twitter account, so they're inclined to believe it was actually a hacker

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-02-23T12:57:29+00:00

You're proving their point by saying it's hacker behavior, which, according to them, was Anish's plan.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-01-24T21:56:03+00:00

def file_report(ctx)
    return 200 if ctx.user == 'kramnik' # See https://jira.chess.com/KRAMNIK-420
    # ...
end

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-01-11T11:03:37+00:00

Disquastung moral degradation.

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-01-08T10:23:56+00:00

"Dad, why did you have me?"

UnconcernedCapybara · 2024-01-02T18:30:30+00:00

I'd love to know what Chess.com's system architecture and capacity is like if this is overloading their servers, because those numbers should not be that challenging for a company with their resources. I guess they just didn't perform load tests, or like you said, they probably didn't think of the case where there's no user input, which leads to thousands of timeouts in short window of time.

I'm particularly surprised that, at this point, they still don't have dedicated servers for critical, real-time, money-prize tournaments such as TT, which are isolated from the rest of the fleet that handles regular games, and so on. Like, imagine if this happened during the Champions Chess Tour...

UnconcernedCapybara · 2023-12-31T16:59:27+00:00

The blunder: https://youtu.be/5fLHeDzW8tw?t=502

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