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by rjj 1361 days ago
Just to make sure I read this right: he most likely cheated in 11 online tournaments from 2015 - 2020.

Why not analyze his recent and over-the-board games?

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Kenneth Regan did that and came to a conclusion that there were no cheating.
I'd say he could not come to a conclusion that there were cheating.
Which is odd, considering how many games Hans played at 90-100% match for chess engine moves, which seems to be a lot more than other GMs, where typically their best games are in the 70% range. See Hikaru and other chess YT channels.
If he's such a clever cheater as people make him to be, why did he set himself up this way?
From the article:

While it says Niemann’s improvement has been “statistically extraordinary.” Chess.com noted that it hasn’t historically been involved with cheat detection for classical over-the-board chess, and it stopped short of any conclusive statements about whether he has cheated in person. Still, it pointed to several of Niemann’s strongest events, which it believes “merit further investigation based on the data.” FIDE, chess’s world governing body, is conducting its own investigation into the Niemann-Carlsen affair.

I imagine everything is being analyzed but given that cheating in 11 online tournaments is enough to invalidate someone’s career it makes for an appropriate topic of article.
I get that. Just checking I had it right that this is ~not really the analysis we most want.