Bonus Pod- FM Nate Solon joins to Discuss Chess.Com's Report about the Carlsen/Niemann Controversy

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Perpetual Chess is back with another bonus pod, as the Carlsen/Niemann story continues to see new developments. This week’s major news is that Chess.com has issued a report with a full accounting of their actions around the Hans Niemann story. Joining me to discuss it is FM Nate Solon. Nate is a data scientist, 2018 Massachussets State Chess Champion, an Author, and a blogger who has recently been writing about the controversy, There was tons to discuss from this report, so I was happy to have Nate help me do so. Notes and brief timestamps can be found below. CORRECTION- There were a couple of times I misspoke in this pod in distinguishing between online and OTB cheating.I want to clarify that I was not disputing whether Hans cheated online, and any time I mentioned questions about whether Hans cheated it was only in relation to whether he cheated OTB. My apologies- Ben 0:00- What are the major conclusions from the Chess.com report? Mentioned: Chess.com report link here: https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report Hans’ Most Recent Chess.com Account https://www.chess.com/member/hansontwitch 15:00 - Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. You can check out all of their latest offerings here: https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/new/ We discuss the data Nate laid out in his Monday post, Did Hans Nieman Cheat 22:00- Back to the report. We discuss the analysis within Chess.com’s report of Hans’ OTB results. 41:00- Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Aimchess.com. Aimchess’ algorithm reviews your games and gives you actionable advice on how to improve your game. Check it out for free, and if you choose to subscribe you can use the code Perpetual30 to save 30%. Or use this link for the same discount: https://aimchess.com/try?ref=benjohnson12 42:00- We answer some listener questions related to the scandal. Mentioned: David Smerdon’s thoughts on the report here: https://twitter.com/dsmerdon/status/1577490212342870022?s=20&t=SSwdxc-1W8b1Ot9qukkx8w Episode 271 with GM Hans Niemann 1:13:00- Thanks to Nate for joining me and sharing his insights. Here are links to keep up with him: Twitter Substack Blog Evaluate Like a GM Website If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, you can do so here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.4	but without further ado, let's get to the show.
1:05.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another Carlson-Neman bonus pod discussing this ongoing controversy,
1:12.9	providing new angles basically every day.
1:16.7	And I'm trying to bring in a rotating cast of intelligent, even-minded people to discuss this controversy.
1:24.3	And joining us this time is another return guest.
1:26.8	He is a Fidei Master is a feeday master a data
1:29.0	scientist a former professional poker player he is the author of the forthcoming book evaluate
1:34.1	like a grandmaster alongside fellow friend of the pod grandmaster eugene perilsstein he is a chess
1:40.3	blogger he writes first a blog on substack called zish and Zug that is a must read. It's free to
1:46.6	subscribe. Highly recommend it as I have before. And on Monday, he released a measured look at the
1:51.7	statistical evidence of whether or not Hans Niemann cheated with his own research. That post was
1:58.0	called Did Hans Neman cheat? And it kind kind of went viral so we'll discuss that a bit
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