Chess World Chess King Carlson accused American chess player Hans Neiman of cheating in the game. The well-known chess online platform chess.com recently released a report saying that Neiman may have cheated in more than one hundred online games and has admitted it in private.
Carlson Image source: Carlson's personal website screenshot
html On September 4, in the fifth stop of the 2022 Chess Super Tour held in the United States, 31-year-old Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen lost to 19-year-old American player Hans Niemann, 53 consecutive win-win record. Carlson later questioned Neiman's cheating during the two-match game, and then the FIFA announced the establishment of an investigation team to start investigating the incident.chess.com released a 72-page "Hans Niemann Report" on the 5th Beijing time. In an interview during the Sing Cup, Neman publicly admitted that he cheated twice only at the age of 12 and 16, and had never had such behavior on live streaming. However, the fourth part of the report, "Hans' cheating on chess.com", pointed out that combining surveys on various detection methods such as artificial intelligence engine chess comparison and game behavior pattern analysis, shows that Neman is likely to cheat in more than 100 online games, including games with bonuses, and 25 games were streamed live. The most recent suspected online cheating was in 2020, when he was 17 years old.
Nieman Image source: Video screenshot
Report disclosed that in 2020, the platform closed Nieman's account due to cheating, and showed the two chat history of Nieman and platform official Danny Lunsch in August and November 2020. During both conversations, Neman admitted to his cheating and asked if Danny Lunsch could give him a chance to re-enter.
When discussing the offline game of the Sing Cup victory over Carlson, the report said that Carlson had said that the game experience was "different from any previous game". He emphasized that he had felt the great efforts of many top chess players in difficult chess games in the game, but Neman seemed "easy". The
report stated that given that chess.com does not organize traditional offline events, although Neiman's game showed some "uncomprehensible behavioral patterns", the platform did not have any tangible evidence that Neiman had cheated in offline games. However, the report shows that Nieman is "the player with the fastest rising momentum of modern chess offline competitions", and pointed out that this upward trajectory is unusual. The platform has shared its current findings with FIFA and will cooperate with FIFA's future investigation. Editor-in-chief of
column: Zhang Wu Text editor: Song Yanlin Title source: Zhu Qi Photo editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: Xinhua News Agency
