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Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns

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262 points dschuessler | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.008s | source
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mnky9800n ◴[29 Mar 25 16:37 UTC] No.43516729[source]▶
Why is ass and anal bolded in the readme? The git blame says you did it. Haha.
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meowface ◴[29 Mar 25 18:38 UTC] No.43517539[source]▶
It refers to a player accused of cheating against Magnus Carlsen, with widespread speculation that the cheating might've been done using an anal vibrator.

(There's zero evidence it actually was an anal device; no one knows how he might've cheated if he indeed cheated. It just became a big meme.)

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mtlmtlmtlmtl ◴[29 Mar 25 19:28 UTC] No.43517915[source]▶
Hans Niemann almost certainly did not cheat against Carlsen. Carlsen just played that game rather poorly and ragequit the tournament because he's a baby who can't handle losing.

I do think Niemann may have cheated in OTB chess before. But not at the Sinquefield Cup, I just don't see it. And the only evidence is insinuations from a sore loser who's well known for throwing tantrums when he doesn't get his way.

The buttplug stuff was really just a joke from reddit, no one's seriously suggested anyone is actually cheating using a buttplug. Doesn't even make sense as a way of cheating, really. It would be extremely obvious.

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1. olddustytrail ◴[29 Mar 25 22:02 UTC] No.43519130[source]▶
Hans Niemann almost certainly did cheat against Carlsen. Everyone who knows about chess found that game hugely suspicious (see Hikaru's comments on it).

The idea that Carlsen can't stand losing is a theory from people who don't know about chess. His lose rate is about 15%. All GMs lose games all the time. It's keeping the win rate as high as possible that makes them the best.

The notion that any GM would get so upset simply about losing a single game is just nonsense.

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2. mtlmtlmtlmtl ◴[30 Mar 25 08:15 UTC] No.43522368[source]▶
I've been playing tournament chess for 20 years. Not every game is created equal. Some losses are more upsetting than others. Carlsen has some narcissistic traits, which is unsurprising given that he's been showered in adulation from the chess world and general public since he was a small child(and this is common in these chess virtuosos. See Kasparov, Fischer, Kramnik, Nakamura). He might be able to handle losing to someone he considers his peer, but there are plenty of things about Niemann's personality rumours circulating about his online cheating during the game, and his rating at the time that made this loss particularly hard to handle.

And GMs have had plenty of bad reactions to losses throughout the history of chess. It definitely happens. Chess is an emotionally taxing game. You spend many hours of exhausting effort at the board only to lose due to a momentary brainfart. It's infuriating. GMs are humans too. Hell, fairly recently there was an incident when GM Christopher Yoo punched a photographer after losing a game at a tournament in St Louis.