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Neimann openly admitted to cheating on chess.com matches (and chess.com released a lot of evidence to the same end). It's not a boogieman.

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It gets complicated as Carlson has large monetary investment in chess.com https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-acquires-pmg

It's not some independent platform or non profit. It muddys the water at least.

> Niemann has admitted to cheating in online chess matches when he was 12 and 16 years old but has denied ever doing so in during tournaments involving prize money.

Nobody made him say this! How is chess.com's ownership related?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/carlsen-chesscom-make-opening-...

> It gets complicated as Carlson has large monetary investment in chess.com

How does that complicate the fact that Niemann admitted cheating on games he played on chess.com?

I'm willing to be there are a lot of other GMs who has cheated on chess.com but their identities haven't been revealed by chess.com because they weren't accused by Carlsen, a partial owner of chess.com.

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