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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

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Cheating in the World of Chess

I think this is such a serious issue for the world of chess because going forward if we don't take it seriously now I think at some point there is the potential for a much much larger scandal. Michael Magnus has said that it is an existential threat to chess like this is a very serious problem that's only going to get bigger. You're basically from a spectator perspective from a competitor perspective or not sure that you can trust any of the results yeah. There are plenty of top level tournaments that I played in where there was no security at allYeah so I do think it's a big issue I think it has been a big issue but the reason it's only coming to light now is because

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