Former world champion says a Twitch streamer is cheating – Chess.com intervenes

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In the world of chess, there is a conflict between former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura, a grandmaster and Twitch streamer. Kramnik suggests in a blog that Nakamura cheated. The chess platform Chess.com intervenes.

What does Kramnik say? Russian Vladimir Kramnik (48) became world champion in 2000 when he defeated Garry Kasparov, but lost the title to Viswanadthan Anand in 2007.

  • In November, Kramnik said on his Chess.com blog that a player had won 45.5 of 46 consecutive blitz games against strong competition. That corresponds to a rating of 3,600 – everyone should find it “interesting”.
  • This was clearly aimed at the Twitch streamer Hikaru Nakamura, who achieved such a feat.
  • As a result, Kramnik’s accusations escalated further and he demanded that the “administration of the platform” conduct a detailed investigation into Nakamura’s games. Kramnik found his performance to be “not in line with Nakamura’s rating”. He plays better than his ranking suggests.

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    Chess.com considers Kramnik’s accusations to be baseless and is sanctioning him

    This is the result: The Chess.com platform has apparently complied with the request for an investigation, but Kramnik is unlikely to like the result at all.

    Because Chess.com came to the decision at Christmas, December 24th, that Kramnik’s accusations were unfounded and then closed Kramnik’s blog and deprived him of the opportunity to write on the platform. However, he could still contact Chess.com privately, for example via email, to discuss his suspicions:

    “Grandmaster Kramnik’s escalating attacks against some of the most respected members of the chess community and some of the most promising young talents can no longer be ignored. As a result, we closed Grandmaster Kramnik’s blog and muted his account.”

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    Looks like Kramnik has checkmated himself here.

    Hikaru Nakamura is the most successful Twitch streamer in chess as “GMHikaru”. On average, around 11,000 people watch him:

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