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A former world champion who is saying everyone is cheating at chess is INSANE

Vladimir Kramnik has gone insane. Like literally insane.
He accused a teen from Turkey (Turkiye) of cheating (GM).
He has accused Denis Lazavik (DenLaz on chess.com) of cheating, while he beat Magnus Carlsen (MagnusCarlsen on chess.com) in online chess along with other top 20 GMs.
Can he please stop ruining the future of chess? I mean these guys I am talking about are 13 and 17 yrs respectively, and they play better than 90% of us. (100% of all who will post here) These guys are the future world champions, the future Magnus Carlsens.
And if they get accused of cheating when they're 18? Dunno whats gonna happen in 10 years to chess.
Although, still, a question does arise in my mind, what if these guys actually are cheating? What if Kramnik has been right?
I am not saying that those two teens are cheating, please keep in mind.
Again ? Kramnikgate. nevertheless, he would make a good detective book author or a b-series director
I don't think many people take his accusations seriously anymore. It's probably a badge of honor at this point. I wouldn't be worried about their future.
@i-bex said in #3:
> I don't think many people take his accusations seriously anymore. It's probably a badge of honor at this point. I wouldn't be worried about their future.
By "Badge of honor" you mean that people are HONORED if they get accused by Kramnik?
I mean I do agree that people don't take his accusations seriously anymore. I mean who really goes to Twix everyday and check Kramnik's new post? How stupid would that be?
Right?
He is probably getting paranoid that is the problem with cheaters. Same in dating.
NEVER CHEAT......... NEVER

But Kramnik deserves the utmost of respect for his career, and if he is truly trying to protect the integrity of the game even with taking flak (from likely half cheaters) then I applaud him.
Cheaters in all levels of life are p_thetic trash to society.

Maybe other top 5 and former top 5 players have EARNED the right to criticize him but the other million sure the hell have not.
Kramnik's accusations are something I consider seriously. How could an unknown player have a higher average accuracy than their former world champion and even higher than Magnus, who is the stongest chess player today? How can you explain that? The Elo rating may lie (for example, a 2200 can beat a 2500 from time to time), but the overall average and statistics cannot lie.
Well people cheat at everything so ,it must happen in chess ?
Maybe he's still sore after Toiletgate.
There is no future of chess. Chess is now or never. I say ignore him because he is an idiot like a lot of people. He can do whatever he likes.

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