Last Updated: December 02, 2023, 10:20 IST
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Hikaru Nakamura had accused Arjun Erigaisi of dishonest, with none proof and now finds himself dealing with the identical allegations from with Vladimir Kramnik.
Hikaru Nakamura had as soon as accused Indian teenage GM Arjun Erigaisi of dishonest, that too with none incriminating proof. The American now finds himself dealing with the identical, with Vladimir Kramnik alleging he cheated in on-line chess.
Kramnik claimed in a cryptic weblog submit that Nakamura’s current 46-match unbeaten streak was suspicious. The pair have been sparring ever since.
Indian GM Srinath Narayanan, talking to The Indian Express, revelaed that Hariku had accused Arjun of dishonest by way of direct messages.
“Hikaru used to accuse Arjun of cheating. This was two or three years back. He was pretty confrontative about it. Arjun felt sad about it, that someone he looked up to as a chess player was accusing him just because he was playing well,” Srinath, Arjun’s former coach and mentor, informed The Indian Express.
Chess.com, the portal the place Nakamura hosted the matches in query, mentioned that Kramnik’s accusations ‘lack statistical merit’.
“We have generated nearly 2,000 individual reports on Hikaru’s games in our Fair Play system and have found no incidents of cheating. As to the allegations about Hikaru’s incredible performance streaks (including winning 45.5 games out of 46), we have also looked at the statistics behind this. Our team has done the math and various simulations of streaks for a player like Hikaru who has played more than 50,000 games. We have found that not only is a 45-game winning streak possible, it is in fact likely given the number of games played. We have confirmed these results with external statisticians, including a professor of statistics at a top-10 university,” learn Chess.com’s assertion.
Srinath mentioned cheeting was rampant within the preliminary days of the pandemic, when on-line chess’s popilarity was o nthe rise.
“But in 2023, we’re in a better place as far as online cheat detection measures are concerned for tournaments. You need to have two cameras on, frontal cameras to show your face. A side-angle cam where your screen is visible,” Srinath mentioned.
“Certainly, there’s paranoia (in chess). When you’re playing, you go through so many emotions that you’re at a point where you’re not totally objective about these things. You’re so involved that you cannot take a step back. So, fear certainly plays a role. Messes with your mind,” Srinath added.
