Occam's Razor Supports that Hans Niemann did not cheat against Magnus, or in OTB in general.

After reading all these comments, the most striking thing is that we've never seen a real true genius emerge to overthrow all chess players. I'm talking about an autistic savant with Asperberger's syndrome. Some of these can recite PI to a hundred thousand digits, and then recite it backward. Luckily (I think) most of these turn towards physics other sciences, but it would be a wonder to see one turn to chess. They say the greatest computer chess rating is about 3500, far higher than Magnus Carlsen. It would be interesting to see a savant with asperger's challenge that. Google it on YouTube. There are a lot of leading scientists who see these child geniuses with Asperger's as the next step on humanity's evolution ladder. 

Religion is a secondary issue but due to your low IQ you only have a superficial interpretation of things. My interest is the psychological propensity humans have for revering gods of various kinds. Conspiracists have the same type of brains. They believe an evil cabal (the devil) stands between them and utopia (heaven). If the "devil" can finally be revealed to be the "true" hand behind 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination (for example) then he will be smote and they can enter the kingdom of heaven.

From an evolutionary perspective these traits seem to have been selected for, probably because they provide some kind of survival advantage.

Top GMs generally disagree that Magnus played a good game there.  That does not equate to them thinking Hans does not cheat OTB.  Ask those same players how they feel about Niemann's win over Carlsen at the FTX Crypto event. 

It doesn't really matter if Niemann cheated in the Sinquefield Magnus game.  All that matters if whether Niemann is cheating OTB at all in this timeframe, during his ratings rise.

They possibly would be if the masses valued high intelligence but they don't. They value the next filtered selfie they can upload to Instagram and stuff like the Kardashians. Our political "leaders" from across the spectrum are emotional reactionaries. I would love to be ruled by extremely high IQ cold rationalists but it will never happen because it's not rewarded enough socially in the way superficial charm is.

Calling someone low IQ repeatedly does not make it true. 

Again, your obsession with bringing religion into non-religious conversations is astounding. 

Then why didn't Magnus withdraw from the Sinquefield tournament before he lost to Hans? If he suspected Hans as a cheater, then why did he play until he lost? Then to add insult to injury, his loss was very likely a fair and square loss.

If Magnus would have withdrawn from tournaments before he lost to Hans, I'd actually probably agree there is some merit to his cries.

However, deciding you won't play someone after you lose is a whole different ball game. 

I am waiting for someone to respond saying, "I have been following Hans since the year 2000!"

Me. The first I ever heard about him was that video of him complaining about 5 dollars for a charity event. I couldn't believe someone could be that selfish. I know it was a very small event with a very small prize fund, but more importantly it was a chance for him to show good will. Make some good PR.  It seemed like only weeks after that the cheating scandal broke. So when I heard about that I thought "after seeing what kind of person he is, Hans down, he cheated".

Don’t you know he’s only cheating if he wins? Even his opponents seem to agree with that. 

I do not understand this attitude.  If you were Niemann, and if you were cheating...would you continue to cheat in this current situation, or would you back it off a while?

"Clearly the Malone gang is not robbing banks, because after the story broke about them, not one single bank has been robbed!"

I wrote this in reply to your post after seeing RookNoob "did not get it".  He assumed the side you were on.  People will tend to do that.

What didn't I get? I was being sarcastic. Unless nervesofbutter was being serious about his implant failing. then yeah, I didn't get it.

But I knew you were joking, that's why I replied. I thought you were in the Hans isnt cheating camp? Which I agree with.

Okay good to know. I was mislead by your dozens of posts arguing Hans wasn't cheating.

I don't really see how this is hurting the game. Chess is more popular than ever. This has been the best free publicity Chess could have hoped for. It's not like Hans or Magnus invented the possibility of cheating in Chess, they just took it mainstream.

That’s the proper approach to most forums. If you ever read one of those bills, you’ll understand why members of Congress don’t read them.

Handling cheating quietly was what had been done before and it was what really hurt the game. It might have hurt reputation of Hans and Magnus, but the game and (clean) players in general are going to be the beneficiaries in the future. You don't want chess to become cycling in the 90s where everyone was forced to take PEDs if they wanted a fighting chance to compete, because everyone else was doping and nothing would happen even when they were caught.

The Cycling Community must have been fully aware of what was going on back then even in Olympic Cycling. But did they say anything. Their silence on the issue speaks volumes, pun intended. Let’s hope that the Chess Community don’t making this a personal Witch Hunt against one person. 

Well, to be fair, most members of Congress read at a 1st grade level, so that may have something to do with it.

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