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Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama

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Is Niman Cheating?

chess dot com has millions of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of players playing at any one time. It's now a significant commercial asset, partly because of magnus's fame but also due to the success of queen's gambet netlik series. Now this makes me onder, given magnus's conversations with chestock holme around this time, whether he has proprietory information about nimon's play that gives him reason to believe,. credible reason to believe, that nimon is cheating. I don't thin ther's any basis to think he knows his opponent is cheating. He can only suspect it. And therefore what he's done is rather extraordinary, because he's acted as if he

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