[dandanua]

> if you think someone might be cheating you can’t concentrate on chess

I wonder how young players can concentrate on chess when they know if they suddenly win over the King then top chess entities can ban them from chess? And the fan base of the King will run after them all over the internet with threats?

Magnus just wanted to be more than a chess King. Evidently, it means being less than a honest human.

[faeriechangling]

Now I think Magnus is being a bit of a dick but he is the honest one in this dispute and his feelings are at least understandable.

[addicted]

What is honest about Magnus in this situation?

He hasn’t even said anything. All he has done is taken cryptic unexplained actions and released cryptic unexplained tweets.

If Magnus believes Hans cheated (again, that’s a big if because Magnus hasn’t said anything) and Magnus is actually correct that he cheated, even in that situation Magnus’s entire set of actions since he lost have been highly dishonest, since his entire communication strategy has been to leave cryptic messages that people can read anything into, without yet having made any clarifying statements.

[faeriechangling]

I have a few choice adjectives to describe Magnus’s behaviour but I just don’t get how it’s dishonest to be cryptic.