I would think danya would be the last person ever accused of cheating. He commentates super GMs playing rapid or bullet games all the time and spots not just good moves but is able to instantly articulate the ideas to an audience of casual chess players. I think when someone can do that it’s pretty clear they can calculate in their head much faster.
@@SantiagoSánchezPrietowhat you don't understand is the point that Danya is already great, an instructor, commentator, and a player. The risk of cheating far outwieghs the "avoid losing" objective.
Great point, I think Kramnik And maybe other GMs like Nepo think it's odd that he's such a good bullet player, but he just is. He thinks super fast, which shouldn't necessarily translate into considering every possible line in classical chess. He's still a strong GM, but doesn't need to be in the Candidates every time just to be a fast thinker.
@@villbuzeep2043 Dumb take. Everyone often has engines, or you think TOP GMs are not familiar with engines? Danya sees lines 10 moves ahead and explains them instantly. And he does this on a regular basis.
Kramnik, my guy, no one owes you an explanation. He accuses 10 people a day and expects a thesis level response as if his weird, delusional opinion is actually worth something at this point. What percentage of the elite players he's accused have been proven cheaters? Kramnik has lost all credibility, the Alex Jones of chess.
And the one time someone did accept his challenge he wasn't even capable of playing 3+1, the format in which he accused him of cheating in the first place, because he knew he would've gotten demolished.
Paul Morphy does tend to not look straight at the camera in all his 19th century photos. I don't accuse him of anything, only asking what engine he's looking at?
@@fal2218 A delusional, paranoid and uncivilized asshole from the developing country and the criminal state and the shitty culture called Russia (which will collapse soon by the way being divided in tens of parts).
Kramnik: "Look at Hikaru's games, it's impossible for a human to win so many in a row! These statistics are clear proof." Hikaru: "Don't accuse me of cheating." Kramnik: "WOAH VICTIM ALERT, nobody said you cheated, I was just asking a question!" And here we see the exact same thing happening again. The nerve of this guy to make wild speculations based on eye movements and mentioning a move (then deciding not to play it) and call it "evidence" is staggering. I am so disappointed that Nepo has agreed with him in both accusations as well. It's one thing for a bitter old man, who can't face the fact that younger peoples' minds are sharper than his, to do it but for a current top player to cheerlead for him is ridiculous and I wish FIDE would slap Nepo with some kind of suspension from competing in events. Daniel and Hikaru are exceptional blitz and bullet players. Both of them are capable of beating Magnus a decent % of the time in these formats, who is a far better player than Kramnik and Nepo have ever been. I'd put a lot of money on either of them to humiliate Kramnik in a blitz series.
@@zelareka You'd have to ask him that question. I don't know the guy. If I had to guess I'd say right now he's more in shock and upset than worrying about earning $, I'm just saying I think he'd destroy Kramnik in blitz, especially if they play on computers. Even if I'm wrong, if they have the series eventually and Kramnik wins it 20-10 for example, does that prove Daniel cheats? No more than him briefly considering a backwards bishop move does (one of the most ridiculous arguments I've ever heard in my life, by the way).
@@zelareka I'm not a mind reader, so this is just speculation. First of all, in this kind of forced match, only Daniel can lose something. If he agrees to the match and there’s a slightest shadow of a doubt, or if he doesn’t beat Kramnik quite convincingly, it could hurt his reputation and career. There’s no doubt Kramnik wouldn’t hesitate to push his totally-not-accusations even further. Whereas for Kramnik, there’s nothing to lose: he’s an old man, expected to lose to a much younger blitz player, and his reputation at this moment is garbage anyway. If the match happens, Daniel would be under immense pressure, which is far from ideal when you’re forced to prove something you don’t have to prove in the first place. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Kramnik pulled even more shenanigans with the conditions of the match, making the situation worse. So, from this perspective, there’s no point in caving to this obvious blackmail and taking the risk. But I’d still be glad if Daniel consented and beat the living crap out of Kramnik (in terms of playing chess of course).
@@zanmato3103 Daniel is a blitz player. Kramnik is not. Thoughts of a Blitz player and a classical player are not the same. Hikaru and Danya are low key the same as in millions of thoughts run through their heads, and they spew out whatever comes to their head. It's brainstorming ideas. Something Kramnik doesn't do.
I feel so bad for Danya he is such a good player with amazing videos who is super respectful and Kramnik just throws random accusations with so much obvious hatred, it's ridiculous.
I'm 1900 and I will take any challenge by GMs where we play ANY position that I'm already +7. it's like fighting bruce lee but he is missing 1 arm and 1 leg. I won't even be proud of winning. let's for a moment say danya is a cheater. kramnik is mentioning he keeps looking away from screen where he is +7. wouldn't danya stop cheating where he is +7? and play on his own at that point? so, is kramnik saying danya's real rating is lower that 1900? cuz I believe i can win +7 positions easily. also, i improved my chess watching danya youtube channel. he doesn't post bullsh!t for view. he just posts instructive learning chess.
At this point Kramnik needs to be sued for defamation. He just never stops throwing this shit out. How dare he say ”nobody claimed that you are guilty” after clearly pointing to things he means implies that hes guilty. Kramnik is doing thesame shit that Tucker Carlson is doing. Instead of outright saying ”I think hes cheating” he is just ”asking questions” in such a way that its obvious to anyone watching what the message is. And he just outright ignores Danyas response to his bullshit and plays the victim himself.
Danya is one of the best bullet player in the world and Kramnik thinks that is suspicious that he can find good moves in seconds... Yep sounds like Kramnik madness is growing, what a shame for a world champion
The Bc8 stuff is so dumb. "Danya thought about a move in a random position in a random online game two years ago, my engine says its the second best move and my friend couldnt think of it in the same time. Yep, he definitely cheated"
What the heck is wrong with Kramnik? He says, “I’m not being slanderous.” Of course he is. He’s clearly implying that Dayna has been cheating. Danya should not have to deal with this crap. I feel sorry for Kramnik but he also makes me really angry.
Kramnic: "These are not allegations or slander, but legit questions that you refuse to answer." Also Kramnic: "And you clearly see the engine is here" The fall from being a world champion of chess to an old geezer accusing 10 people of cheating per day, is sad to see. He's lost his mind.
I'm not saying Kramnik went insane, I'm just saying that if someone did the same things as Kramnik then it would be probable to conclude that they are insane, I'm not accusing him of anything though.
The unanswered questions - " prove that you didn't cheat somehow " It's a joke. That is how conspiracy thinking works .... I have this idea and I'm committed to it and anything that you present to disprove me is simply evidence that you are hiding the truth. *The evidence doesn't really matter if you have a conspiracy theory - what matters is your certainty that others have some sort of evil secret intent*
@@NicoR24601 With Kramniks logic you could say "This video shows you are mentally insane." And then after that you say "Noone accused you of being mentally insane, dont play victim and try to manipulate, Im just asking questions"
Even when the accused accept the 1x1 challenge by Kramnik, then the actual games only happen in the format chosen by Kramnik himself. He accused Jospem in TT, but then refused to play the same time formats in the 2 "Clashes". He is a moral dwarf.
Even a broken Kramnik is right twice a day. No doubt he feels emboldened now he's called out an actual cheater in Shevchenko. Now more convinced than ever he's right about all the others. And give it a rest with the 'I'm not accusing' garbage. That's exactly what he's doing, and he knows it. Nobody thinks Danya is cheating. Just as nobody thinks Jospem is cheating. And nobody thinks Hikaru is cheating. Except Vlad the Implyer. Because he's crazy.
6:35 Imagine saying "this is not decent" when someone tries to defend themselves after you've made accusations on people's entire careers without any proof or logic. Never seen more of hypocritical move.
lol Kramnik is turning into Bobby Fischer, the later years. Danya is the last GM I'd ever suspect of cheating, his love for the purity of the game is one of his best attributes.
@@Corteum He developed paranoia and requested they use his own rules for a world championship. He thought 9/11 was great. He was severely anti-Semetic and wanted the US to un-alive "hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders"
Kramnik: I'm not accusing, just asking a question Kramnik: Did you cheated on that game? Danya: No Kramnik: Prove it Danya: How to prove when I'm not cheating and that video was 2yrs ago????? Danya: Sure I will try to show you my setup on that day then. Kramnik: You didn't answer my question.
I don't think he would, because I think he knows Magnus is better than him even at his peak But I think he struggles to accept that modern young GMs are now better than him too
Kramnik has a pattern of behavior when losing online. If you beat Kramnik in a way that frustrates him online, he will immediately suspect you're cheating. He then proceeds to mouth off about it on Twitter. After he cools off, he plays the game where he says "stop playing the victim I'm just asking questions". Rinse and repeat. If Kramnik was genuinely concerned about cheating, he would go about it differently. These are instead temper tantrums linked to losing online. Ian constantly jumping in and agreeing with Kramnik every time he does this, is a lot worse in my opinion. When Ian does it, it looks more like resentment. If Ian believes these GM's are cheating already, why does he always wait for Kramnik to have a meltdown before mentioning it?
I think he feels pissed and hurt because nepo and other gms, and the community of gms believe that there is something going on vs. in hikaru's case in which most people laughed it off. So, he is losing credibility because of Kramnik's "not" accusations.
@@tin5048 Exactly, at first I thought:" no way he's wasting all this mental capacity on such obviously baseless claims" But than I saw nepo's retweet and other people who were supporting the accusations 🤯🤯 Last stream was sad to watch ☹️. I hope Danya would know how big of a chess teacher and player he is, and that Kramnik'd accusations are far irrelevant to come even close to touching Danya's credibility as a chess player and teacher❤
Kramnik is a disgrace of a former World Champion. Kudos to you Danya for still being as respectful and composed as possible in your response even when someone is clearly targeting you with slanderous lies, you are a bigger man than many of us, an absolute class act and most of all the best chess teacher by far at least as far as I’m concerned. Keep your head high, the truth prevails. Edit: forgot to mention, Nepo is a snake in the grass, the sheer audacity to even indulge in and promote Kramnik’s delusional acts of grandeur and self-righteousness just shows that he has no integrity as a fellow competitor either.
Kramnik says: "And you clearly see the engine is here". then says he didn't accuse, wants Danya to explain where he was looking at in a VOD years ago, then after Danya shows around the room, he is still not convinced and claims his explanation is not factual(fact:whatever Kramnik believes). There is simply no way to satisfy him, whatever answer Danya gives, he will continue to ask "Questions", he doesn't even realize that noone owes him an explanation.
That is because Kramnik is full of conspiracy theories as one person said in the comments. Evidence does not matter when there are conspiracies. So yeah Danya will never really prove he is not cheating in this case because people like Kramnik exist.
And Kramnik claims that he is not accusing Danya so why is Danaya obligated to answer every single questions he has? Even in court, there are times when lawyers do not answer every single accusation or claim made.
Kramnik does this shit after every loss. He’s just a sore loser. What a embarrassment for the chess community. There is literally compilations of him pulling this crap.
I've sat through numerous 2 hour bullet brawls watching Danya easily and consistently destroying up to 2800 rated players with great speed, often premoving many moves per game. It is not at all a stretch to me that he would be very good (although not as dominant) in the blitz format. He isn't as good as Magnus, HIkaru, Alireza, etc and his rating in indicative of that. Kraminik fixating on his eyes and words to already show strong suspicion is the highest level of chess cheating paranoia I've ever seen.
Exactly, it's very hard to cheat online. Even randoms get caught all the time, someone as high profile as Danya would've been caught long ago if he was cheating.
@@LeafyPeach Actually it's the easiest to cheat online. You just need to be decent at the game first and know how not to get caught. "Don't always play first engine move, make mistakes on purpose" Let's not pretend its impossible to cheat online. Is Naroditsky cheating? Who knows but lets at least be real about the possibility
@@LeafyPeach High level players would know how to cheat at a high level people have explained this dozens of times including Gotham. Danya is not cheating but if he really wanted to he could do it easily without anybody knowing about it...
Kramnik saying all this and then claiming he’s not accusing anyone … how can he be so disingenuous. And then he has the audacity to question Naroditsky’s morality. I could not have any less respect for Kramnik.
@@boxofcans461so it’s like tell me you’re the killer but don’t tell me you’re the killer. “So, I noticed you have a knife over there, and your fingerprints are on the knife, I have videographic evidence you killed that person and I have witnesses who saw you kill that person. I’m not accusing you!! I JUST HAVE SUSPICIONS” Right…..
@@williamhuan in your example you have evidence which is knife, fingerprints.etc. In kramniks case, he has no evidence, so there is no accusation and therefore there is no need for the people concerned to defend themselves.
@@boxofcans461 I’m not talking about what really took place but rather what the ACCUSER said was taking place. Hence the quotation marks. That was the statement of the accuser and not necessarily what took place.
@@boxofcans461 I mean, imagine if someone accused you of doing something bad ( which you knew you didn’t do ) using his faulty logic and then just chicken out like a coward when you face him by saying, “Oh, I wasn’t accusing you. I was just stating the facts.” What facts? Oh, you mean the ‘facts’ that seem to label me as a wrongdoer?
Kramnik accusing a professional of cheating which is a level of slander that damages ones career and then bullying the victim saying they're playing games trying to win over the audience. Is just such an intense and unallowable amount of bullying. Like yeah he's defensive you are accusing him of the worst thing he could possibly do in his profession. To attack and then step back and insult the one you're accusing while saying you never made any accusations is the tactic of an abuser. I knew of Kramnik accusing all these players but I didn't know of how he was going about doing it. Trying to have everyone be honest and to put a magnifying glass on strong players is fine, but this seems less like trying to uphold the truth and more like trying to have everyone kneel to your delusions.
@@prosheligaexample of what? Does 1000 being greater than 999 make 999 not greater than all other numbers such as 748 or 25? Losing to kramnik only means losing to kramnik, no more further. It doesn’t prove anything about having engine turned on in room. For example, Magnus could have engine just to avoid losing in certain games (which is not true), but he would beat the ass out of kramnik. Your comment is unrelated to the issue, not fit to be under this video.
Kramnik only has two explanations that clear his suspicion: 1. You're cheating. 2. You're hiding the fact that you're cheating. He's like that corrupt police officer, forcing you to confess to crimes you don't commit.
@@brightlin777 This is an example of the behavior of people with honor. "Losing to kramnik only means losing to kramnik, no more further" -You are right - there is no correlations between the rating and the results of the games, chess is just a absolutely random game.If I win 100 out of 100 vs Daniel, it won't mean anything.
@@prosheligawhat are you talking about? Losing to Kramnik is unrelated to cheating. By your dumb logic no one rated higher than Kramnik can ever cheat because they'd all beat him over the board (but funnily enough didn't Kramnik also accuse Hikaru. Daniel is rated lower than Kramnik anyway, so elo rating tells us he would most likely lose. Kramnik has been a world champion whereas I doubt Danya has even been US champ. Kramnik just sucks at online chess. He flags a lot while Danya is better at faster time controls. Kramnik is literally accusing him of a thought crime. "He thought of Bc8, he must be cheating", like what?
Once again, you've composed a great overview of a significant current event in chess, with all necessary context, clear chapters/well-organized storytelling, high-quality captions, and you do it all AMAZINGLY FAST. Truly the hero the chess world needs! Also how dare anyone come for Danya like this. Kramnik needs to get a life.
He's got a real vendetta against Chesscom for how they dealt with his -accusations- sorry, his "questions". My theory is that he's looking to discredit their sponsored players as an indirect attack against the company.
7:52 "I don't like. I give facts and I'm asking questions. So please don't maňipulate public" yeah, because the "questions" are not implicit accusations and are not manipulating public, right?
I feel, considering how often players close their eyes and cover their faces, especially during critical moves, that there is something very suspicious about how often they stare at their eyelids. I mean.... what is there to look at on their eyelids? Why do they have such a keen interest in looking THERE so often? It would be easy to have stockfish running just out of view of the public... under their eyelids. ~Kramnik, probably.
I remember when Kramnik was called a humble, well-spoken, sportsman right before his retirement. He used to be a great person and supporter of up and coming players, this is bad.
I genuinely hate kramnik, to turn around and accuse someone of faking their way through their livelihood is fucking vile. Especially when said person is passionate about it. Danya absolutely doesn’t cheat in chess, and he’s batshit insane for trying to do this day after day
@aspecimen6939 there are kids watching this, please do not use bad words. We also have to resist the temptation of saying bad words at the idiot who is Vlad and Nepo.
I just don't understand why Gms are not allowed to come up with a brilliant move? Isn't that the point? You become gm to be able to see these moves. Gms can pull out crazy moves, that should be normal. Also notice nepo jumping in to the accusations again, just like he did with hikaru. Shame, just shame.
@@villbuzeep2043 Well, Kramnik often struggles to explain moves and positions when he's giving commentary. And Danya did explain his thought process behind considering the move at question, which he didn't even put into play (he found the top rated engine move instead, which Kramnik didn't find strange in the slightest).
@@theKashConnoisseur I was particularly floored when he accurately calculated the moves that Magnus would make during the Carlsen-Firouzja finals. Clearly, Kramnik is not in the same ballpark as these guys.
Kramnik simply does not understand what the word "implicit" means. He keeps trying to hide behind this "nobody claimed anything" nonsense, but that just completely ignores the bad faith arguments he's making that implicitly allege cheating.
question is WHY would Danya cheat in random online blitz games. Completely delusional to believe Danya would risk his career to win some completely irrelevant games. Kramnik has clearly lost his mind just as Fischer did
Someone who is just as renowned might still cheat in some random game to test the water of how far can they get away with cheating. Obviously danya isnt cheating here because he has many proofs. Im saying that just because someone has got a good reputation wont stop them from doing something terrible
aah yes, the typical "he's more intelligent than us so how do we validate our beliefs by making them seem like they're rooted in intelligent reason? EUREKA, we will just say that he is SOO smart that he's going crazy" stop with the cope
Straight up man child. People said hikaru was bad but people don’t even mention nepo and his antics. Even that whole situation with the gm who knocking his king by mistake, Nepo says he was cheating. He is just getting corrupted by krammnik and it’s sad to see
i'm so glad Ding won the world championship over Nepo, one of the worst people in chess making petty comments about everyone, including minors, at least he doesn't have the crown.
@@prcbras yeah i even remember when gukesh won candidates, he was soo salty on fabis podcast insinuating something interesting. Such a disgusting sore loser glad he got bully beat down from magnus and lost like a 1000 elo player to ding
I believe Danya is 100% innocent but showing us the wall with nothing on it is kind of silly. Would a cheater do a video and leave his wall-mounted cheating apparatus in place for the video?
Kramnik is mentally sick and Naroditsky is one of the most beautiful brilliant minds we have. Danya is very well spoken, always has been, very likeable, extremely strong hyperbullet/ultrabullet player. He is extremely intelligent and great for chess. I love Danya. And Kramnik takes pills for paranoia. Kramnik is crazy!
Who's the police here? Definitely not you or me. Danya has a huge fan base, he (statistically) plays way more games than you or I I can ever be comfortable with. So stop with trying to defend Kramnik, he's more worried about farming. Things are changing. What about magnus? I'm a huge magnus fan btw. I stay out of drama like him... MAGNUS!!!
@@fundhund62 of course not. However, it also doesn't mean that Kramnik's "questions" are not accusations, and that his "proof" is not weak tea. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and Kramnik has not provided that...he never provides that.
@@Somequo In 2006 in Topalov's world championship with Kramnik, Topalov accused Kramnik of going to the bathroom frquently to cheat, its called 'Toiletgate' by some.
It's just sad what became of Kramnik, not being able to acknowledge talent and skill when he sees it. Unworthy of such a former champion. Danya should not even bother to deal with his "questions".
I remember once playing some weird unnatural rook lift (Rh5) which I just couldn't explain but it looked cool in a blitz game so I played it, it was the top engine move and I don't even know why. Moments like this happen, but are in no way proof of cheating.
Thats different tho. This Bc8 move does not look like an engine move at all retreating a developed piece to its starting square. Also he didnt explain in the game that its to Trap the Bishop. He just said Bc8 is interesting
@@matthieurouyer1826 i have watched high level chess, im 2550 chescom which is not great but i have some understanding. Typically its to free the square c4/c5 and retreat to f1/f8 so in this case this is not applicable. Also e6 is a very logical square to keep the bishop
All this makes me more sympathetic to Hans. Kramnik is a fool, but all the people on the opposite side should understand accusing people without direct proof is dangerous and devastating.
Daniel you are not asking me for advice, I know it is hateful to give advice when you are not asked for it. I am going to be hateful, do not waste your time with kramnik, he has already left the stage and seeks to return with the glare of others. Do not you realize that you are on the rise and that curiously or coincidentally he attacks you? I don't believe in coincidences, and the unhealthy way of this person's comments and proposals are unhealthy. No matter what you demonstrate or explain, his objective is not to understand you, it is to take advantage of the situation. For these reasons I understand Nakamura perfectly. There is no worse aggressor than the person who victimizes himself. Sorry for my English, I would have said it better in Spanish.
@@Viewer13128 Just Google Kramnik and Ding Liren analysis. You'll find it soon. It's within the last few years although not sure of the exact date. Kramnik over confidently states his analysis and Ding literally laughs at some points. And unsurprisingly, the computer agrees with Ding.
Yeah, 50 trips a game into a private bathroom, definitely suspicious and unusual. Surely a 1000 time more than moving eyes while thinking, lol. Kramnik, we would like a detailed explanation of those 50 trips. It's not that I suspect you of cheating, but it's very suspicious, unusual and out of order. And it's not that you didn't achieve the world championship title rightfully either, but the circumstances were suspicious, unusual and out of order.
Kramnik's last candidate's match was hillarious because he was wrong in maybe all the post game analysis but his arrogance, far beyond confidence, was unwaivering. I learned believing in your ideas is part of will & winning, even if wrong. It's like the step after a bad plan is better than no plan at all.
This kind of gaslighting makes my blood boil, and Kramnik does it over and over and over and over again, he is truly a horrible being who, in my opinion, should be ostracized by the whole international chess community.
People don't realize that a) very very unlikely things still happen, given enough enumerations Danya has probably played 5000+ hours of chess on stream, 10.000s of games, of course there will be moments like these, where a weird move CONTEMPLATED but not played turns out to be the top move recommended by the engine. b) how certain editing and presenting of "facts" (actually, information) can lead them to believe in false things. Hence why so many people believe in batshit crazy conspiracy theories.
And who gave Kramnik the right to judge other chess players? Does he have any authority from FIDE to judge others? Did he forget how he cheated in the game with Topalov and won only because he ran to the toilet to cheat? It looks like some kind of disgrace of Kramnik - he loses to top players who have a higher rating than him and gets offended that he loses, then starts to invent something and suck it out of his finger, in short, Kramnik, as Nakamura said, has gone crazy)
My comment on Kramniks recent video: @VBKramnik The “I’m just asking questions” line is getting tiresome. You basically say that you have “questions” and “suspicions” but you aren’t “accusing.” Sure, suspicion and accusation technically aren’t the same. Suspicion means you’re side-eyeing someone, thinking something’s off without saying it outright. An accusation…That’s publicly throwing your finger in their face with a series of videos. To my eye at least, it is quite clear that you walk, talk, and quack like an accusation duck. It’s like holding a lit match near a fuse and pretending you’re just ‘observing.’ You’re not fooling anyone. At least own it.
Danya, don't worry. Nobody in the right mind buys these wild accusations and most of the community has your back. Best chess commentator in the world vs. gone crazy ex gm isn't even close.
GM Naroditsky. I thoroughly enjoy your exceptional abilities in BLITZ and maybe even more so your INTERVIEWING abilities as a commentator. Exceptional objectivity, balanced perspective, an unbiased interview style and respectful tact when speaking to GMs of renown and searching for a balanced narrative. It's hard to find or understand completely the motives GM Kramnik. It seems to be a witch hunt of sorts. A SHOTGUN approach while having a chance of enhancing or forwarding fairplay in chess in general, does very little to maintain the reputations of those players who have always had fairplay as part of their internal modus operandi wiring. A GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT requirement is an exceptionally difficult standard for players to meet on past games or streams. I look forward to GM Kramnik being held accountable for his approach to the same level that all those who he accuses will have to meet. One question I have for you
Is GM Kramnik just farming us all. For likes, for traffic, for attention and traffic that can be monetized. Are we just all so blind? Is it just some deep play for him. Does FIDE condone his activities or is just a test case after test case scenario that they are OK with happening as looking under a lot of rocks may just turn up something dirty eventually. My recommendation is to take some DEEP BREATHES, gather your people in private and then go to WAR. This is your livelihood and many in the ether really enjoy your work. Thanks GM NARODITSKY for what you share and what you do.
I just stumbled upon this sittuation, so without any real context or emotional attachment, the Kramnic guy seems dead wrong. The entire time he was saying, "where are you looking" I was saying "CHAT!! HES LOOKING AT CHAT BRO!!". Is it possible this guy is so out of touch he doesn't understand how streaming with multiple monitors works?
But also like.....I look up and to the left when I am trying to calculate or remember something. Not for a specific reason, I just do it subconsciously. Hikaru looks at the ceiling. It is a completely normal tic for chess players to look away from the board when they are trying to calculate near their limit
@@jakebishop7822 There is a reason. Some of us need to not see the game to have a more clear image of what is happening. Looking to the side is like getting rid of the current position and telling your brain to make a new one in your mind.
I think if you look at Kramnik's behaviour, one could ask if he is a sexual predator. I'm not saying he is. No one is accusing him. But you can certainly ask the question. And the fact that he has never contradicted it raises more questions. Still, I'm not saying for certain he is one. Not enough evidence to be certain. I just have a valid question, so I guess it is up to him. The world awaits his answer.
Kramnik is my hero! He was right from the beginning. And there are many more cheaters, like Hikaru, Daniel Naroditsky, etc., all of whom Kramnik denounced. Keep up the good work, dear Kramnik! It's the Americans and Ukrainians who should be banned from international chess, not the Russians.
Kramnik is starting to turn into the amber heard of chess.... constant career ending accusations after accusations without anything to back them up whatsoever 🤦♂️
I'm someone who, in every setting requiring thought e.g. chess, exams, puzzles, looks away to think things through in my head. Sometimes when you're staring at a question, or a chess position, or a sudoku, it's much easier to manipulate things if you're just looking at your mental notes rather than the screen or paper. And I know a lot of people are also like this. So it's good to know that type of thinking is considered grounds for cheating allegations in anything. 5:15 "Normally you don't look away from the monitor with only a few seconds" no, normally YOU don't Kramnik. Shockingly other human beings behave differently. 12:00 "Nobody is condemning you" says man who made a series of videos psychoanalysing Danya's behaviour and putting it public, causing direct harassment and accusations to occur, something that you can literally just search. You can just go to Twitter and find the tweets, it's very easy. Kramnik might believe he's not accusing, and maybe he genuinely isn't, but either he's pretending to not know, or is genuinely completely oblivious to the obvious effect these types of videos have. The man needs to take up golf or something, get outside once in a while.
I am not a professional player. But even I saw that Bc8 was worth considering. The B is then one future pawn push away from the long diagonal. I mean, who wouldn't look at that? I think Kramnik,s mind is starting to slip a bit.
Is everybody acting like his eyes movement is suspicious that out of touch? He is looking at chat! And the Bc8 case is so weird, for a move that he just said was interesting, but didn’t even play. 2 years ago
Proof is paramount, and accusations without solid evidence should not even be acknowledged. Let´s not turn our loved chess into a circus by someone who was once a good player but now is discharging all the frustration of his mind not clicking anymore
Kramnik's obsession with a strong GM not keeping his eyes trained on the chessboard when calculating is incredibly strange. Is he not capable of visualizing without staring at the board, like basically every single other strong GM is? For a lot of players, it's simply much easier to move the pieces around when looking away from the board, or even closing their eyes. Surely Kramnik knows this. It's hard to believe that this could be anything other than motivated character assassination done in bad faith.
Nepo DID NOT enable Kramnik. Nepo said BC8 was an inhuman move which is true. Danya who ended up not playing it even agreed himself with the verdict and the fact that he didn't play it is proof that he didn't see how strong of a move it was.
Not going to lie… I thought I was going to go against Krammnick or whatever his name is but now I kind of think this dude is cheating. The monitor and wires being on the floor. Him looking to the right during a blitz game. His reactions are almost exactly like a lot of people I’ve seen get caught.
I don't believe Kramnik's accusations against Danya for cheating in the slightest... it's ridiculous: Danya, who OTB almost never plays, beat Fabiano Caruana in classical 2 years ago. Kramnik hasn't been World Champion for 17 years, and even then he was past his "peak", which occurred between the end of the 1990s and the middle of 2000. Kramnik really thinks that in blitz he can still easily keep up with one of the top (easily 10) players in the world? At this point, it's no longer even a question of his "battle" against cheating, he's just delusional. But as far as I'm concerned, his "credibility" had already reached absolute zero when he insinuated that Hikaru was a cheater... this is just ridiculous. Virtually no one among the GMs likes Hikaru particularly well, yet I've never heard anyone before Kramnik even suggest that Hikaru might cheat in any way.
I can't help but be a skeptic and a curious cat after what happened with Kiril. I believe that 90% Naroditsky is legit, but there's still a 10%. What exactly was he looking at? He was looking frantically at twitch chat with 7 seconds left in the end of a very tense game? His video showed the second monitor which has the theoretical possibility of displaying aid (not even particularly engine aid, it can even display an endgame book, a discord call with someone helping...). Not addressing the issue directly is drawing suspicion onto Danya. Please, respectfully, clear the air and answer as directly as possible. What exactly was there and why were you so adamant to look at it during those final 7 seconds. As many video games were completely ruined and taken over by cheaters, I really don't want my favorite board/online game of all time to be completely destroyed by cheaters too. I'd be SO happy if Danya ends up being 100% legit. Cheers.
Kramnik being so pedantic. "I never said he was cheating!" The whole video is implying Danya is, so just because Kramnik didn't outright say the words, doesn't mean it's not what he is saying. So not only is he lying, he can't even be accountable for his own actions. The funny thing about that is he wants others to be accountable, but he can't hold himself to those standards.
He straight up said 'And its pretty clear that his engine is here' at 5:31, so he didn't just imply it. Action needs to be taken against this old geezer.
making no comment on whether danya is cheating or not, but this much is certain: a) by his ongoing actions, danya has demonstrated that he is a decent human being. b) by his ongoing actions, kramnik has demonstrated that he is four cents short of a nickel.
It's crazy what Krammik is doing right now. Danya is a wonderful person who helped so many new players to improve and even old players. People start to believe Krammik is becoming more credible because of a gm he accused online was caught cheating over the board but Krammik accuses 9/10 people he loses to and not gonna lie one of those 9/10 he reports per day is gonna coincidentally stick. Thats not him being right its like a kid shooting at a target 100x blindfolded and when one of them gets a bullseye it means they are good at aiming.
I do think the most insane part is that, as GM Naroditsky points out, he did not even play the move in the game that allegedly could "only be found by an engine." He just commented on it. Is this the standard for cheating? If you mention a move that a chess engine happens to rate favorably, and is otherwise somewhat unusual, that means your cheating? I think that would only lead to the advent of silent chess streams. Surely we can give GMs the benefit of the doubt to at least speak about moves that are novel without fear of being branded a cheater.
I would think danya would be the last person ever accused of cheating. He commentates super GMs playing rapid or bullet games all the time and spots not just good moves but is able to instantly articulate the ideas to an audience of casual chess players. I think when someone can do that it’s pretty clear they can calculate in their head much faster.
@@SantiagoSánchezPrietowhat you don't understand is the point that Danya is already great, an instructor, commentator, and a player.
The risk of cheating far outwieghs the "avoid losing" objective.
Great point, I think Kramnik And maybe other GMs like Nepo think it's odd that he's such a good bullet player, but he just is. He thinks super fast, which shouldn't necessarily translate into considering every possible line in classical chess. He's still a strong GM, but doesn't need to be in the Candidates every time just to be a fast thinker.
commentators often have engines though, they are not expected to be at the level of the super GMs playing rapid or bullet
@@SantiagoSánchezPrieto "must be not having a talent" what is your ranking in the world leaderboard of chess? 😂talentless moron.
@@villbuzeep2043 Dumb take. Everyone often has engines, or you think TOP GMs are not familiar with engines? Danya sees lines 10 moves ahead and explains them instantly. And he does this on a regular basis.
He must go insane everytime Hikaru visualizes moves in his head by looking up🤣
Kramnik already found that "interesting" long time ago
Oh that was part of his reasoning for accusing hikaru too
Well he accused Hikaru too
Maybe Hikatu has a monitor in the ceiling 🤣
That's literally a meme now bro. People are commenting on his videos joking that they want a ceiling reveal of Hikaru's room.
The whole “I’m not accusing, just asking question” bit is logic an obnoxious teenager would use.
yep its almost like sayng haha no offense and pulling the most offensive shit out
ruclips.net/video/eKsfJHZ9vXE/видео.html
There’s a term for this: JAQing off - The act of spouting accusations while cowardly hiding behind the claim of "just asking questions."
That's what the 9/11 truthers used to say.
I like JAQing off. Its creative. But it’s just garden variety gaslighting. Plain and simple.
I really wish someone makes a compilation of Kramnik looking to the side while playing and accuse him of cheating.
Thats a brilliant idea
Yes please!
The problem is that he loses which is why he accuses everyone lol
@@m.saadali5554 Ooo +200 Elo comment
Kramnik -“I’m only asking questions”
The question - “why are you a cheater?”
The questions: "How do you think of that move I didn't see?"
This remind me of "Why are you gay" 😂
or "have you stopped being a cheater yet?"
he's the fking cheater and he knows it. they always are
@@prayasjain8583 so who is cheating?
He'll be questioning my 1300 rating next . No one is safe
He'll be like "you're 1300 and found the top engine move, 100% cheating" and then the move is 1. e4
@@robertocartomano7734 stockfish 16 now recommends d4 as the top engine move
Kramnik, my guy, no one owes you an explanation. He accuses 10 people a day and expects a thesis level response as if his weird, delusional opinion is actually worth something at this point. What percentage of the elite players he's accused have been proven cheaters? Kramnik has lost all credibility, the Alex Jones of chess.
And the one time someone did accept his challenge he wasn't even capable of playing 3+1, the format in which he accused him of cheating in the first place, because he knew he would've gotten demolished.
100%
At this point a complaint should be filed against him with FIDE for harassment and FIDE should sanction him.
Except Alex Jones actually got things right.
@@erikliam520 guess thats why he's got nothing left....
@@erikliam520please tell me you’re joking
Next he's going to accuse Paul Morphy for playing a depth 38th move in the 19th century
next he is going to accuse stockfish for playing better games than human super GM . Kramnik's madness has not limit
Paul Morphy does tend to not look straight at the camera in all his 19th century photos. I don't accuse him of anything, only asking what engine he's looking at?
Bobby Fischer doesn't want to play with cameras... Very suspicious indeed.
at least , i admire these guys for being Grandmasters. no matter what BS they say online
Impossible, Morphy has another style, man.
Kramnik is a nut case and Nepo enabling him is a disgrace
Nepo asslicks everyother Russian
@@Narrowcros classic western racists
@@fal2218
A delusional, paranoid and uncivilized asshole from the developing country and the criminal state and the shitty culture called Russia (which will collapse soon by the way being divided in tens of parts).
Yeah I was disappointed to see Nepo going along with the narrative.
@@fal2218 lol it ain't, he literally does that
Kramnik: "Look at Hikaru's games, it's impossible for a human to win so many in a row! These statistics are clear proof."
Hikaru: "Don't accuse me of cheating."
Kramnik: "WOAH VICTIM ALERT, nobody said you cheated, I was just asking a question!"
And here we see the exact same thing happening again. The nerve of this guy to make wild speculations based on eye movements and mentioning a move (then deciding not to play it) and call it "evidence" is staggering.
I am so disappointed that Nepo has agreed with him in both accusations as well. It's one thing for a bitter old man, who can't face the fact that younger peoples' minds are sharper than his, to do it but for a current top player to cheerlead for him is ridiculous and I wish FIDE would slap Nepo with some kind of suspension from competing in events.
Daniel and Hikaru are exceptional blitz and bullet players. Both of them are capable of beating Magnus a decent % of the time in these formats, who is a far better player than Kramnik and Nepo have ever been. I'd put a lot of money on either of them to humiliate Kramnik in a blitz series.
well kramnik offered 50k to play with daniel, why wont he do it?
@@zelareka You'd have to ask him that question. I don't know the guy. If I had to guess I'd say right now he's more in shock and upset than worrying about earning $, I'm just saying I think he'd destroy Kramnik in blitz, especially if they play on computers. Even if I'm wrong, if they have the series eventually and Kramnik wins it 20-10 for example, does that prove Daniel cheats? No more than him briefly considering a backwards bishop move does (one of the most ridiculous arguments I've ever heard in my life, by the way).
@@zelareka I'm not a mind reader, so this is just speculation.
First of all, in this kind of forced match, only Daniel can lose something. If he agrees to the match and there’s a slightest shadow of a doubt, or if he doesn’t beat Kramnik quite convincingly, it could hurt his reputation and career. There’s no doubt Kramnik wouldn’t hesitate to push his totally-not-accusations even further.
Whereas for Kramnik, there’s nothing to lose: he’s an old man, expected to lose to a much younger blitz player, and his reputation at this moment is garbage anyway.
If the match happens, Daniel would be under immense pressure, which is far from ideal when you’re forced to prove something you don’t have to prove in the first place.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Kramnik pulled even more shenanigans with the conditions of the match, making the situation worse.
So, from this perspective, there’s no point in caving to this obvious blackmail and taking the risk.
But I’d still be glad if Daniel consented and beat the living crap out of Kramnik (in terms of playing chess of course).
No, he needs to be hit with a fine, and a lawsuit. Banned from chess comps is not good, because he's old and can retire at any moment.
@@zanmato3103 Daniel is a blitz player. Kramnik is not. Thoughts of a Blitz player and a classical player are not the same.
Hikaru and Danya are low key the same as in millions of thoughts run through their heads, and they spew out whatever comes to their head. It's brainstorming ideas. Something Kramnik doesn't do.
I feel so bad for Danya he is such a good player with amazing videos who is super respectful and Kramnik just throws random accusations with so much obvious hatred, it's ridiculous.
Ask Ben about Danya....
@@AthosRac Ben who?
i mean everything is very clear with bishop c8 i would do the procedure now
I'm 1900 and I will take any challenge by GMs where we play ANY position that I'm already +7. it's like fighting bruce lee but he is missing 1 arm and 1 leg. I won't even be proud of winning.
let's for a moment say danya is a cheater. kramnik is mentioning he keeps looking away from screen where he is +7. wouldn't danya stop cheating where he is +7? and play on his own at that point?
so, is kramnik saying danya's real rating is lower that 1900? cuz I believe i can win +7 positions easily.
also, i improved my chess watching danya youtube channel. he doesn't post bullsh!t for view. he just posts instructive learning chess.
@@AthosRac whats up with ben and danya?
At this point Kramnik needs to be sued for defamation. He just never stops throwing this shit out. How dare he say ”nobody claimed that you are guilty” after clearly pointing to things he means implies that hes guilty. Kramnik is doing thesame shit that Tucker Carlson is doing. Instead of outright saying ”I think hes cheating” he is just ”asking questions” in such a way that its obvious to anyone watching what the message is. And he just outright ignores Danyas response to his bullshit and plays the victim himself.
Are u gonna sue him in a Russian court?
@@jebespolitiko Im not the one being defamed.
Danya is one of the best bullet player in the world and Kramnik thinks that is suspicious that he can find good moves in seconds... Yep sounds like Kramnik madness is growing, what a shame for a world champion
The Bc8 stuff is so dumb. "Danya thought about a move in a random position in a random online game two years ago, my engine says its the second best move and my friend couldnt think of it in the same time. Yep, he definitely cheated"
@@Sandfox07 he didnt even play the move though... that's the funny part
@@kromydas5063words can do so much when the wrong person sees it
It's because the dude doesn't understand how computers and his mouse works.
@@kromydas5063 Thats why I said he thought about it, yeah he even played h6 the most natural move
What the heck is wrong with Kramnik? He says, “I’m not being slanderous.” Of course he is. He’s clearly implying that Dayna has been cheating. Danya should not have to deal with this crap. I feel sorry for Kramnik but he also makes me really angry.
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Why feel sorry for Kramnik. The guy is a washed up idiot.
Kramnic: "These are not allegations or slander, but legit questions that you refuse to answer."
Also Kramnic: "And you clearly see the engine is here"
The fall from being a world champion of chess to an old geezer accusing 10 people of cheating per day, is sad to see. He's lost his mind.
I'm not saying Kramnik went insane, I'm just saying that if someone did the same things as Kramnik then it would be probable to conclude that they are insane, I'm not accusing him of anything though.
The unanswered questions - " prove that you didn't cheat somehow "
It's a joke.
That is how conspiracy thinking works .... I have this idea and I'm committed to it and anything that you present to disprove me is simply evidence that you are hiding the truth.
*The evidence doesn't really matter if you have a conspiracy theory - what matters is your certainty that others have some sort of evil secret intent*
@@howard5992 It is not a joke. You play a sport that in theory everyone can cheat and do nothing about that =))). all of you guys are a joke.
@@NicoR24601 With Kramniks logic you could say "This video shows you are mentally insane." And then after that you say "Noone accused you of being mentally insane, dont play victim and try to manipulate, Im just asking questions"
Who cares if they cheat it's just a game
Even when the accused accept the 1x1 challenge by Kramnik, then the actual games only happen in the format chosen by Kramnik himself. He accused Jospem in TT, but then refused to play the same time formats in the 2 "Clashes". He is a moral dwarf.
Even a broken Kramnik is right twice a day.
No doubt he feels emboldened now he's called out an actual cheater in Shevchenko. Now more convinced than ever he's right about all the others.
And give it a rest with the 'I'm not accusing' garbage. That's exactly what he's doing, and he knows it.
Nobody thinks Danya is cheating. Just as nobody thinks Jospem is cheating. And nobody thinks Hikaru is cheating.
Except Vlad the Implyer. Because he's crazy.
Vlad the Implyer! haw
'Vlad The Implyer' is amazing lmao
Vlad the Implier is a spark of genius. Copyright that one lol
fun fact, vlad is short for vladislav not vladimir, vladimir gets abreviated to vova. that said fuck vova the implyer such a crazy asshole
The commenters above didn't come up with that. It's an old meme
6:35 Imagine saying "this is not decent" when someone tries to defend themselves after you've made accusations on people's entire careers without any proof or logic. Never seen more of hypocritical move.
lol Kramnik is turning into Bobby Fischer, the later years. Danya is the last GM I'd ever suspect of cheating, his love for the purity of the game is one of his best attributes.
At least Fischer came up with Fischer random, which is a legit alternative for chess moving forward.
@@fahmiluthfi7991 we can say kramnik's coming up with something random every day
@@user-wo7yk7mn8xFischer became a pretty terrible person as he aged, I don't think this is particularly controversial
What did Fischer do that was equivalent to Kramnik's antics?
@@Corteum He developed paranoia and requested they use his own rules for a world championship. He thought 9/11 was great. He was severely anti-Semetic and wanted the US to un-alive "hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders"
Kramnik: I'm not accusing, just asking a question
Kramnik: Did you cheated on that game?
Danya: No
Kramnik: Prove it
Danya: How to prove when I'm not cheating and that video was 2yrs ago?????
Danya: Sure I will try to show you my setup on that day then.
Kramnik: You didn't answer my question.
I'm just waiting for the day Kramnik finally snaps and accuses Magnus, and all hell breaks loose.
lol, yeah that'd be fun..
@@dicidicee Or better yet, now that I think of it, I'd like to see him accuse Topalov. Let the whole thing go full circle!
I don't think he would, because I think he knows Magnus is better than him even at his peak
But I think he struggles to accept that modern young GMs are now better than him too
It would be irrelevant, he has zero credibility already, no one in their right mind takes Kramnik seriously.
We need Topalov to snap and give Kramnik the Kramnik treatment.
Kramnik has a pattern of behavior when losing online. If you beat Kramnik in a way that frustrates him online, he will immediately suspect you're cheating. He then proceeds to mouth off about it on Twitter. After he cools off, he plays the game where he says "stop playing the victim I'm just asking questions". Rinse and repeat. If Kramnik was genuinely concerned about cheating, he would go about it differently. These are instead temper tantrums linked to losing online. Ian constantly jumping in and agreeing with Kramnik every time he does this, is a lot worse in my opinion. When Ian does it, it looks more like resentment. If Ian believes these GM's are cheating already, why does he always wait for Kramnik to have a meltdown before mentioning it?
Kramnik just cannot admit that he is old and not that good anymore and then it takes revenge on other GM .
You can tell Danya is deeply disturbed and furious at these accusations.
Yeah, he's usually pretty damn chill and usually overly respectful. But he seems seriously pissed and hurt here.
Anyone who has ever been wrongly accused of something without even proofs has felt like this.
Yeah. Completely justified.
I think he feels pissed and hurt because nepo and other gms, and the community of gms believe that there is something going on vs. in hikaru's case in which most people laughed it off. So, he is losing credibility because of Kramnik's "not" accusations.
@@tin5048 Exactly, at first I thought:" no way he's wasting all this mental capacity on such obviously baseless claims"
But than I saw nepo's retweet and other people who were supporting the accusations 🤯🤯
Last stream was sad to watch ☹️. I hope Danya would know how big of a chess teacher and player he is, and that Kramnik'd accusations are far irrelevant to come even close to touching Danya's credibility as a chess player and teacher❤
Kramnik is a disgrace of a former World Champion.
Kudos to you Danya for still being as respectful and composed as possible in your response even when someone is clearly targeting you with slanderous lies, you are a bigger man than many of us, an absolute class act and most of all the best chess teacher by far at least as far as I’m concerned.
Keep your head high, the truth prevails.
Edit: forgot to mention, Nepo is a snake in the grass, the sheer audacity to even indulge in and promote Kramnik’s delusional acts of grandeur and self-righteousness just shows that he has no integrity as a fellow competitor either.
Kramnik says: "And you clearly see the engine is here". then says he didn't accuse, wants Danya to explain where he was looking at in a VOD years ago, then after Danya shows around the room, he is still not convinced and claims his explanation is not factual(fact:whatever Kramnik believes).
There is simply no way to satisfy him, whatever answer Danya gives, he will continue to ask "Questions", he doesn't even realize that noone owes him an explanation.
That is because Kramnik is full of conspiracy theories as one person said in the comments. Evidence does not matter when there are conspiracies. So yeah Danya will never really prove he is not cheating in this case because people like Kramnik exist.
the engine is there when he was analyzed after the game. the engine appears after the game is over if you have diamond membership
And Kramnik claims that he is not accusing Danya so why is Danaya obligated to answer every single questions he has? Even in court, there are times when lawyers do not answer every single accusation or claim made.
Kramnik does this shit after every loss. He’s just a sore loser. What a embarrassment for the chess community. There is literally compilations of him pulling this crap.
@@junkim5853 Because its hurtful when a former world champion questions your integrity publicly and makes ridiculous accusations.
I've sat through numerous 2 hour bullet brawls watching Danya easily and consistently destroying up to 2800 rated players with great speed, often premoving many moves per game. It is not at all a stretch to me that he would be very good (although not as dominant) in the blitz format. He isn't as good as Magnus, HIkaru, Alireza, etc and his rating in indicative of that. Kraminik fixating on his eyes and words to already show strong suspicion is the highest level of chess cheating paranoia I've ever seen.
Hikaru: Stockfish on the ceiling?
Danya: Stockfish on the wall??
Hans: Stockfish in the...!!!
Hikaru looks at the ceiling, Danya looks at the wall, Hans looks at the...
Hans doesn't look... he feels...down there...
BRILLIANT MOVE
😂
Stockfish in the corner. Stockfish in the spotlight...
Danya has INTEGRITY. He’s online 24/7 and any suspicious behaviour would have been raised by his viewers. This is BS.
Exactly, it's very hard to cheat online. Even randoms get caught all the time, someone as high profile as Danya would've been caught long ago if he was cheating.
@@LeafyPeach Actually it's the easiest to cheat online. You just need to be decent at the game first and know how not to get caught. "Don't always play first engine move, make mistakes on purpose" Let's not pretend its impossible to cheat online. Is Naroditsky cheating? Who knows but lets at least be real about the possibility
@@LeafyPeach High level players would know how to cheat at a high level people have explained this dozens of times including Gotham. Danya is not cheating but if he really wanted to he could do it easily without anybody knowing about it...
Kramnik saying all this and then claiming he’s not accusing anyone … how can he be so disingenuous. And then he has the audacity to question Naroditsky’s morality.
I could not have any less respect for Kramnik.
Having suspicion is different from accusing the person. A person can be suspected without being accused. To accuse you need proper evidence.
@@boxofcans461so it’s like tell me you’re the killer but don’t tell me you’re the killer. “So, I noticed you have a knife over there, and your fingerprints are on the knife, I have videographic evidence you killed that person and I have witnesses who saw you kill that person. I’m not accusing you!! I JUST HAVE SUSPICIONS” Right…..
@@williamhuan in your example you have evidence which is knife, fingerprints.etc. In kramniks case, he has no evidence, so there is no accusation and therefore there is no need for the people concerned to defend themselves.
@@boxofcans461 I’m not talking about what really took place but rather what the ACCUSER said was taking place. Hence the quotation marks. That was the statement of the accuser and not necessarily what took place.
@@boxofcans461 I mean, imagine if someone accused you of doing something bad ( which you knew you didn’t do ) using his faulty logic and then just chicken out like a coward when you face him by saying, “Oh, I wasn’t accusing you. I was just stating the facts.” What facts? Oh, you mean the ‘facts’ that seem to label me as a wrongdoer?
Even when Danya is "furious" he is so nice about it.
Kramnik accusing a professional of cheating which is a level of slander that damages ones career and then bullying the victim saying they're playing games trying to win over the audience. Is just such an intense and unallowable amount of bullying. Like yeah he's defensive you are accusing him of the worst thing he could possibly do in his profession. To attack and then step back and insult the one you're accusing while saying you never made any accusations is the tactic of an abuser. I knew of Kramnik accusing all these players but I didn't know of how he was going about doing it. Trying to have everyone be honest and to put a magnifying glass on strong players is fine, but this seems less like trying to uphold the truth and more like trying to have everyone kneel to your delusions.
For example, if you accuse Nepo or Magnus in cheat, they will call you OTB out and break you in life.
And all Daniel does is cry.
@@prosheligaexample of what? Does 1000 being greater than 999 make 999 not greater than all other numbers such as 748 or 25? Losing to kramnik only means losing to kramnik, no more further. It doesn’t prove anything about having engine turned on in room. For example, Magnus could have engine just to avoid losing in certain games (which is not true), but he would beat the ass out of kramnik. Your comment is unrelated to the issue, not fit to be under this video.
Kramnik only has two explanations that clear his suspicion:
1. You're cheating.
2. You're hiding the fact that you're cheating.
He's like that corrupt police officer, forcing you to confess to crimes you don't commit.
@@brightlin777 This is an example of the behavior of people with honor.
"Losing to kramnik only means losing to kramnik, no more further" -You are right - there is no correlations between the rating and the results of the games, chess is just a absolutely random game.If I win 100 out of 100 vs Daniel, it won't mean anything.
@@prosheligawhat are you talking about? Losing to Kramnik is unrelated to cheating. By your dumb logic no one rated higher than Kramnik can ever cheat because they'd all beat him over the board (but funnily enough didn't Kramnik also accuse Hikaru. Daniel is rated lower than Kramnik anyway, so elo rating tells us he would most likely lose. Kramnik has been a world champion whereas I doubt Danya has even been US champ. Kramnik just sucks at online chess. He flags a lot while Danya is better at faster time controls. Kramnik is literally accusing him of a thought crime. "He thought of Bc8, he must be cheating", like what?
At this point I'm convinced Kramnik is paid to throw shade at US chess players.
Who are cheaters. Like Fischer who couldn't play Spasky in the regular room with cameras and audience, but was able to magically play in a back room.
You might have a mental illness brother, too bad you cant get medical attention the gulag
@@jebespolitiko Don't you have a mine to step on Ivan?
Interesting theory, actually. Has he accused any fellow Russians of cheating?
@@hcc942 Ameri moment.
Once again, you've composed a great overview of a significant current event in chess, with all necessary context, clear chapters/well-organized storytelling, high-quality captions, and you do it all AMAZINGLY FAST. Truly the hero the chess world needs!
Also how dare anyone come for Danya like this. Kramnik needs to get a life.
He's got a real vendetta against Chesscom for how they dealt with his -accusations- sorry, his "questions". My theory is that he's looking to discredit their sponsored players as an indirect attack against the company.
@@theKashConnoisseur Sounds plausible enough, idk
7:52 "I don't like. I give facts and I'm asking questions. So please don't maňipulate public"
yeah, because the "questions" are not implicit accusations and are not manipulating public, right?
I feel, considering how often players close their eyes and cover their faces, especially during critical moves, that there is something very suspicious about how often they stare at their eyelids. I mean.... what is there to look at on their eyelids? Why do they have such a keen interest in looking THERE so often? It would be easy to have stockfish running just out of view of the public... under their eyelids. ~Kramnik, probably.
I remember when Kramnik was called a humble, well-spoken, sportsman right before his retirement. He used to be a great person and supporter of up and coming players, this is bad.
Kramnik bringing the game into disrepute. Deserves a ban.
Was kramnic not temporarily banned for cheating?
@@mikekenworthy Toiletgate gave Kramnik the experience he needed to detect other cheaters.
@@theKashConnoisseur I believe he was suspended from chess cam more recently. Best Google it ')
I genuinely hate kramnik, to turn around and accuse someone of faking their way through their livelihood is fucking vile. Especially when said person is passionate about it. Danya absolutely doesn’t cheat in chess, and he’s batshit insane for trying to do this day after day
@aspecimen6939 there are kids watching this, please do not use bad words. We also have to resist the temptation of saying bad words at the idiot who is Vlad and Nepo.
I just don't understand why Gms are not allowed to come up with a brilliant move? Isn't that the point? You become gm to be able to see these moves. Gms can pull out crazy moves, that should be normal.
Also notice nepo jumping in to the accusations again, just like he did with hikaru. Shame, just shame.
but GMs should be able to explain it
@@villbuzeep2043 Well, Kramnik often struggles to explain moves and positions when he's giving commentary. And Danya did explain his thought process behind considering the move at question, which he didn't even put into play (he found the top rated engine move instead, which Kramnik didn't find strange in the slightest).
@@villbuzeep2043 Yeah he gave an explanation in the video, wanted to add to his control of e5. Pretty simple. The bishop is just in the way on e6.
@@theKashConnoisseur I was particularly floored when he accurately calculated the moves that Magnus would make during the Carlsen-Firouzja finals. Clearly, Kramnik is not in the same ballpark as these guys.
@@villbuzeep2043 You are asking Danya to explain an idea he had 2 years ago for a move he didn't even play? Grow up.
Kramnik. “Just turn your camera around.
Daniel “it’s a blank wall”
Kramnik “interesting why you stare at a blank wall. “
Kramnik simply does not understand what the word "implicit" means. He keeps trying to hide behind this "nobody claimed anything" nonsense, but that just completely ignores the bad faith arguments he's making that implicitly allege cheating.
Only a lawsuit can teach him.
"Dont manipulate again, there are only questions" now this makes me so angry :)) he is the one manipulating, he is clearly accusing.
Kramnik is the real-life embodiment of "old man yells at clouds"
The sad part is that he isn't even 50 years old
Mans even looking like a goddamn 60 years grandpa that everyday complains about everything and sueing everyone
so weird to see it, I remember respecting him for the longest time.
This is a symptom of the wider problem that 30% of players ARE actually cheating... (very safe estimate)
question is WHY would Danya cheat in random online blitz games. Completely delusional to believe Danya would risk his career to win some completely irrelevant games. Kramnik has clearly lost his mind just as Fischer did
His career isn't even dependent on his ability to really play chess / have a high rating or anything at this point. He has zero incentive to cheat.
Someone who is just as renowned might still cheat in some random game to test the water of how far can they get away with cheating. Obviously danya isnt cheating here because he has many proofs. Im saying that just because someone has got a good reputation wont stop them from doing something terrible
aah yes, the typical "he's more intelligent than us so how do we validate our beliefs by making them seem like they're rooted in intelligent reason? EUREKA, we will just say that he is SOO smart that he's going crazy"
stop with the cope
@@SmartWatches-xu6ri what on earth are you yapping about
@@torinkeenan2718 something that you're clearly too stupid to understand
"GM Ivanchuk, why do you keep looking at the ceiling?" - Kramnik
Nepo is such a sniveling coward, unreal.
Straight up man child. People said hikaru was bad but people don’t even mention nepo and his antics. Even that whole situation with the gm who knocking his king by mistake, Nepo says he was cheating. He is just getting corrupted by krammnik and it’s sad to see
i'm so glad Ding won the world championship over Nepo, one of the worst people in chess making petty comments about everyone, including minors, at least he doesn't have the crown.
This guy from Mordor turns out to be an Orc! I'm so shocked!
Btw on Caruanas podcast Nepo insinuated that Gukesh somehow cheated during the Candidates, someone should slap him for that slander
@@prcbras yeah i even remember when gukesh won candidates, he was soo salty on fabis podcast insinuating something interesting. Such a disgusting sore loser glad he got bully beat down from magnus and lost like a 1000 elo player to ding
I believe Danya is 100% innocent but showing us the wall with nothing on it is kind of silly. Would a cheater do a video and leave his wall-mounted cheating apparatus in place for the video?
"I sometimes look out that window. There are trees. Nobody can climb on top of it."
Just shows the despair in dealing with Kramnik.
Man gets told off for looking at trees. The state of this.
Kramnik is mentally sick and Naroditsky is one of the most beautiful brilliant minds we have. Danya is very well spoken, always has been, very likeable, extremely strong hyperbullet/ultrabullet player. He is extremely intelligent and great for chess. I love Danya. And Kramnik takes pills for paranoia. Kramnik is crazy!
Don't worry about it Danya, everyone likes you and not Kramnik.
Fair enough, but that doesn't mean he is innocent and Kramnik is wrong.
Who's the police here? Definitely not you or me. Danya has a huge fan base, he (statistically) plays way more games than you or I I can ever be comfortable with. So stop with trying to defend Kramnik, he's more worried about farming. Things are changing. What about magnus? I'm a huge magnus fan btw. I stay out of drama like him... MAGNUS!!!
@@jasonyoungblood9359 How did I defend Kramnik? 🤔
@@fundhund62 i stay out of drama. GO magnus!!
@@fundhund62 of course not. However, it also doesn't mean that Kramnik's "questions" are not accusations, and that his "proof" is not weak tea. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and Kramnik has not provided that...he never provides that.
The only way to shut kramnik is accuse him back. There are lots of his moves that is questionable and engine precision.
Vlad has already been banned from prize tournaments after he was caught cheating. As is typical with Russians, he blamed the whistleblower
Lets get behind Topalov, he is the UNO reverse card against Kramnik.
@@Somequo What are you talking about?
@@Somequo In 2006 in Topalov's world championship with Kramnik, Topalov accused Kramnik of going to the bathroom frquently to cheat, its called 'Toiletgate' by some.
No matter what you say Kramnik is never gunna believe you 😂 this guy has to be sick. I used to not like him, but now I just feel bad for the guy
It's just sad what became of Kramnik, not being able to acknowledge talent and skill when he sees it. Unworthy of such a former champion. Danya should not even bother to deal with his "questions".
I remember once playing some weird unnatural rook lift (Rh5) which I just couldn't explain but it looked cool in a blitz game so I played it, it was the top engine move and I don't even know why.
Moments like this happen, but are in no way proof of cheating.
Literally, sometimes I'll play a move just because it looks like an engine move and it turns out to be best
Thats different tho. This Bc8 move does not look like an engine move at all retreating a developed piece to its starting square. Also he didnt explain in the game that its to Trap the Bishop. He just said Bc8 is interesting
@@David-le8ik Engines and human players both retreat the bishop back to the back rank all the time, have you never watched high-level chess?
@@matthieurouyer1826 i have watched high level chess, im 2550 chescom which is not great but i have some understanding. Typically its to free the square c4/c5 and retreat to f1/f8 so in this case this is not applicable. Also e6 is a very logical square to keep the bishop
All this makes me more sympathetic to Hans. Kramnik is a fool, but all the people on the opposite side should understand accusing people without direct proof is dangerous and devastating.
Can we please ignore that Kramnik exists? so we can enjoy this game that doesnt revolve around Kramnik.
Yes but you’ll go insane playing cheaters 😆
Carlsen, Nakamura and others accused Niemann, the Topalov camp accused Kramnik, but without solid evidence, its just damaging hearsay.
this is just rediculous. Literaly everyone but Magnus is acused of cheating by this guy. You can't take it seriously
I might be wrong, I remember he said magnus is sussy once
Daniel you are not asking me for advice, I know it is hateful to give advice when you are not asked for it. I am going to be hateful, do not waste your time with kramnik, he has already left the stage and seeks to return with the glare of others. Do not you realize that you are on the rise and that curiously or coincidentally he attacks you? I don't believe in coincidences, and the unhealthy way of this person's comments and proposals are unhealthy. No matter what you demonstrate or explain, his objective is not to understand you, it is to take advantage of the situation. For these reasons I understand Nakamura perfectly. There is no worse aggressor than the person who victimizes himself. Sorry for my English, I would have said it better in Spanish.
Go watch Kramnik and Ding Liren do a post match analysis.
Kramnik gets all the analysis wrong.
Topalov was right - Kramnik is sus.
is it recent and did kramnik and ding do the analysis together? what is the name of the video?
@@Viewer13128 Just Google Kramnik and Ding Liren analysis. You'll find it soon. It's within the last few years although not sure of the exact date.
Kramnik over confidently states his analysis and Ding literally laughs at some points. And unsurprisingly, the computer agrees with Ding.
@@Viewer13128 It was years ago at a major classical event. They had just played their game and were at a table with one of the broadcast team.
Yeah, 50 trips a game into a private bathroom, definitely suspicious and unusual. Surely a 1000 time more than moving eyes while thinking, lol.
Kramnik, we would like a detailed explanation of those 50 trips. It's not that I suspect you of cheating, but it's very suspicious, unusual and out of order. And it's not that you didn't achieve the world championship title rightfully either, but the circumstances were suspicious, unusual and out of order.
Kramnik's last candidate's match was hillarious because he was wrong in maybe all the post game analysis but his arrogance, far beyond confidence, was unwaivering. I learned believing in your ideas is part of will & winning, even if wrong. It's like the step after a bad plan is better than no plan at all.
This kind of gaslighting makes my blood boil, and Kramnik does it over and over and over and over again, he is truly a horrible being who, in my opinion, should be ostracized by the whole international chess community.
If someone makes Danya furious then it’s obvious that they’ve done something outrageous
Yeah I dont think Ive ever seen him this mad
Its surprising how many people simply dismiss opinion of a former world champion
“If I can’t do it, no one can”. Since y’all can’t consider the move it’s automatically just cheating is crazy
People don't realize that
a) very very unlikely things still happen, given enough enumerations
Danya has probably played 5000+ hours of chess on stream, 10.000s of games, of course there will be moments like these, where a weird move CONTEMPLATED but not played turns out to be the top move recommended by the engine.
b) how certain editing and presenting of "facts" (actually, information) can lead them to believe in false things. Hence why so many people believe in batshit crazy conspiracy theories.
7:50 Kramnik gives what???
gives tax 😂😂😂😂
Fax
Fucks
Snacks. He used to bring orange slices to matches, until he became suspicious of winter citrus.
Fux
And who gave Kramnik the right to judge other chess players? Does he have any authority from FIDE to judge others? Did he forget how he cheated in the game with Topalov and won only because he ran to the toilet to cheat? It looks like some kind of disgrace of Kramnik - he loses to top players who have a higher rating than him and gets offended that he loses, then starts to invent something and suck it out of his finger, in short, Kramnik, as Nakamura said, has gone crazy)
My comment on Kramniks recent video:
@VBKramnik The “I’m just asking questions” line is getting tiresome. You basically say that you have “questions” and “suspicions” but you aren’t “accusing.”
Sure, suspicion and accusation technically aren’t the same. Suspicion means you’re side-eyeing someone, thinking something’s off without saying it outright. An accusation…That’s publicly throwing your finger in their face with a series of videos.
To my eye at least, it is quite clear that you walk, talk, and quack like an accusation duck. It’s like holding a lit match near a fuse and pretending you’re just ‘observing.’ You’re not fooling anyone. At least own it.
The words of Kramnik do not hold any value BUT Knowing that Nepo tweeted it, it HURTS...
Danya, don't worry. Nobody in the right mind buys these wild accusations and most of the community has your back. Best chess commentator in the world vs. gone crazy ex gm isn't even close.
GM Naroditsky.
I thoroughly enjoy your exceptional abilities in BLITZ and maybe even more so your INTERVIEWING abilities as a commentator. Exceptional objectivity, balanced perspective, an unbiased interview style and respectful tact when speaking to GMs of renown and searching for a balanced narrative.
It's hard to find or understand completely the motives GM Kramnik. It seems to be a witch hunt of sorts. A SHOTGUN approach while having a chance of enhancing or forwarding fairplay in chess in general, does very little to maintain the reputations of those players who have always had fairplay as part of their internal modus operandi wiring. A GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT requirement is an exceptionally difficult standard for players to meet on past games or streams.
I look forward to GM Kramnik being held accountable for his approach to the same level that all those who he accuses will have to meet.
One question I have for you
Is GM Kramnik just farming us all. For likes, for traffic, for attention and traffic that can be monetized. Are we just all so blind? Is it just some deep play for him. Does FIDE condone his activities or is just a test case after test case scenario that they are OK with happening as looking under a lot of rocks may just turn up something dirty eventually.
My recommendation is to take some DEEP BREATHES, gather your people in private and then go to WAR. This is your livelihood and many in the ether really enjoy your work.
Thanks GM NARODITSKY for what you share and what you do.
I just stumbled upon this sittuation, so without any real context or emotional attachment, the Kramnic guy seems dead wrong. The entire time he was saying, "where are you looking" I was saying "CHAT!! HES LOOKING AT CHAT BRO!!". Is it possible this guy is so out of touch he doesn't understand how streaming with multiple monitors works?
Danya said chat was at left, but he was looking at right
@@villbuzeep2043 His left is our right.
But also like.....I look up and to the left when I am trying to calculate or remember something. Not for a specific reason, I just do it subconsciously. Hikaru looks at the ceiling. It is a completely normal tic for chess players to look away from the board when they are trying to calculate near their limit
@@jakebishop7822 There is a reason. Some of us need to not see the game to have a more clear image of what is happening. Looking to the side is like getting rid of the current position and telling your brain to make a new one in your mind.
@@villbuzeep2043I bet you always stare at the screen the entire game huh
I think if you look at Kramnik's behaviour, one could ask if he is a sexual predator. I'm not saying he is. No one is accusing him. But you can certainly ask the question. And the fact that he has never contradicted it raises more questions. Still, I'm not saying for certain he is one. Not enough evidence to be certain. I just have a valid question, so I guess it is up to him. The world awaits his answer.
😂😂💯
Kramnik is going the way of Stenitz, Morphy anf Fischer.
He's trying so hard to be like them, but he's a joke
Please he is way a lot worse. He is a psychopath.
Morphy was actually sane lol he quit chess to do an actual job
Not sure Steinitz deserves to be counted. Though being grumpy, I've never heard he was paranoid...
He does more damage to chess than all of them though
People should face penalties for false accusations in all honesty.
Kramnik: someone accused of chess deviancy in a public toilet on a crusade to convince us that no one is above chess deviancy.
Kramnik is my hero! He was right from the beginning. And there are many more cheaters, like Hikaru, Daniel Naroditsky, etc., all of whom Kramnik denounced. Keep up the good work, dear Kramnik!
It's the Americans and Ukrainians who should be banned from international chess, not the Russians.
Kramnik asked 5 personlities of Hans
Kramnik is starting to turn into the amber heard of chess.... constant career ending accusations after accusations without anything to back them up whatsoever 🤦♂️
If you watch hikaru or even magnus playing they also glance at the side all the time
Are you dumb??
I'm someone who, in every setting requiring thought e.g. chess, exams, puzzles, looks away to think things through in my head. Sometimes when you're staring at a question, or a chess position, or a sudoku, it's much easier to manipulate things if you're just looking at your mental notes rather than the screen or paper. And I know a lot of people are also like this. So it's good to know that type of thinking is considered grounds for cheating allegations in anything.
5:15 "Normally you don't look away from the monitor with only a few seconds" no, normally YOU don't Kramnik. Shockingly other human beings behave differently.
12:00 "Nobody is condemning you" says man who made a series of videos psychoanalysing Danya's behaviour and putting it public, causing direct harassment and accusations to occur, something that you can literally just search. You can just go to Twitter and find the tweets, it's very easy. Kramnik might believe he's not accusing, and maybe he genuinely isn't, but either he's pretending to not know, or is genuinely completely oblivious to the obvious effect these types of videos have. The man needs to take up golf or something, get outside once in a while.
Maybe Danya has Sim card in his phone - kramnik probably
Not the wall stockfish argument 😭😭😭
I am not a professional player. But even I saw that Bc8 was worth considering. The B is then one future pawn push away from the long diagonal. I mean, who wouldn't look at that? I think Kramnik,s mind is starting to slip a bit.
Is everybody acting like his eyes movement is suspicious that out of touch? He is looking at chat!
And the Bc8 case is so weird, for a move that he just said was interesting, but didn’t even play. 2 years ago
11:50 kramnik is the type of guy who cannot see the consequences of his actions in a world where he is wrong
He’s a rabid dog
Proof is paramount, and accusations without solid evidence should not even be acknowledged. Let´s not turn our loved chess into a circus by someone who was once a good player but now is discharging all the frustration of his mind not clicking anymore
1:00 It's like he can't comprehend that people have different brains and could think of different possible things.
Kramnik's obsession with a strong GM not keeping his eyes trained on the chessboard when calculating is incredibly strange. Is he not capable of visualizing without staring at the board, like basically every single other strong GM is? For a lot of players, it's simply much easier to move the pieces around when looking away from the board, or even closing their eyes. Surely Kramnik knows this. It's hard to believe that this could be anything other than motivated character assassination done in bad faith.
Betting one million dollars that the "GM" Kramnik texted was just him in a different number
HAhahaha yeah thought the same
It was nepo
Kramnik is the worst cheater in the history of chess, thats the guy who went to toilet 50 times in his game
Nepo DID NOT enable Kramnik.
Nepo said BC8 was an inhuman move which is true.
Danya who ended up not playing it even agreed himself with the verdict and the fact that he didn't play it is proof that he didn't see how strong of a move it was.
exactly
Not going to lie… I thought I was going to go against Krammnick or whatever his name is but now I kind of think this dude is cheating. The monitor and wires being on the floor. Him looking to the right during a blitz game. His reactions are almost exactly like a lot of people I’ve seen get caught.
I don't believe Kramnik's accusations against Danya for cheating in the slightest... it's ridiculous: Danya, who OTB almost never plays, beat Fabiano Caruana in classical 2 years ago. Kramnik hasn't been World Champion for 17 years, and even then he was past his "peak", which occurred between the end of the 1990s and the middle of 2000. Kramnik really thinks that in blitz he can still easily keep up with one of the top (easily 10) players in the world? At this point, it's no longer even a question of his "battle" against cheating, he's just delusional. But as far as I'm concerned, his "credibility" had already reached absolute zero when he insinuated that Hikaru was a cheater... this is just ridiculous. Virtually no one among the GMs likes Hikaru particularly well, yet I've never heard anyone before Kramnik even suggest that Hikaru might cheat in any way.
Kramnik kept up and beat Jospem when they moved to in person blitz
@@villbuzeep2043 And then Jospem wiped the floor with Kramnik online and ended the contest with a 3 game lead.
@@villbuzeep2043 jospem isn't even the top 10 dude
I can't help but be a skeptic and a curious cat after what happened with Kiril. I believe that 90% Naroditsky is legit, but there's still a 10%. What exactly was he looking at? He was looking frantically at twitch chat with 7 seconds left in the end of a very tense game? His video showed the second monitor which has the theoretical possibility of displaying aid (not even particularly engine aid, it can even display an endgame book, a discord call with someone helping...). Not addressing the issue directly is drawing suspicion onto Danya. Please, respectfully, clear the air and answer as directly as possible. What exactly was there and why were you so adamant to look at it during those final 7 seconds. As many video games were completely ruined and taken over by cheaters, I really don't want my favorite board/online game of all time to be completely destroyed by cheaters too. I'd be SO happy if Danya ends up being 100% legit. Cheers.
Kramnik being so pedantic. "I never said he was cheating!" The whole video is implying Danya is, so just because Kramnik didn't outright say the words, doesn't mean it's not what he is saying. So not only is he lying, he can't even be accountable for his own actions. The funny thing about that is he wants others to be accountable, but he can't hold himself to those standards.
I can’t stand people who argue like that lol
He straight up said 'And its pretty clear that his engine is here' at 5:31, so he didn't just imply it. Action needs to be taken against this old geezer.
making no comment on whether danya is cheating or not, but this much is certain:
a) by his ongoing actions, danya has demonstrated that he is a decent human being.
b) by his ongoing actions, kramnik has demonstrated that he is four cents short of a nickel.
It's crazy what Krammik is doing right now. Danya is a wonderful person who helped so many new players to improve and even old players. People start to believe Krammik is becoming more credible because of a gm he accused online was caught cheating over the board but Krammik accuses 9/10 people he loses to and not gonna lie one of those 9/10 he reports per day is gonna coincidentally stick. Thats not him being right its like a kid shooting at a target 100x blindfolded and when one of them gets a bullseye it means they are good at aiming.
I do think the most insane part is that, as GM Naroditsky points out, he did not even play the move in the game that allegedly could "only be found by an engine." He just commented on it. Is this the standard for cheating? If you mention a move that a chess engine happens to rate favorably, and is otherwise somewhat unusual, that means your cheating? I think that would only lead to the advent of silent chess streams. Surely we can give GMs the benefit of the doubt to at least speak about moves that are novel without fear of being branded a cheater.