Hikaru slams Vladimir Kramnik for deleting comments attacking chess cheating allegations Chess.comChess Grandmaster and Kick streamer Hikaru Nakamura has taken a stand against Vladimir Kramnik\u2019s \u201cdisrespectful\u201d cheating allegations. On November 20, fellow chess Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik accused Hikaru of cheating in a wildly cryptic Chess.com profile update. The accusation came not long after Hikaru smashed Chess.com\u2019s blitz rating record. Stunned by the \u201cgarbage\u201d allegations, Hikaru quickly denied them, but it didn\u2019t stop other chess pros from chiming in with their thoughts. Magnus Carlsen joined in on the controversy by roasting Hikaru over a recent blunder. But Kramnik has since continued with the cryptic updates, using Chess.com\u2019s blog feature to add fuel to the fire with multiple \u201cinteresting\u201d statistical updates. In an update on November 26, Kramnik pointed out Hikaru\u2019s best-ever win streak of 79 blitz games, which is considerably higher than the likes of Carlsen with 32 and Alireza Firouzja with 17. Kramnik asks, \u201cCrazy to suspect or the opposite?\u201d again hinting at the idea of Hikaru cheating. Still, Kramnik highlights at the start of the blog that Hikaru \u201cenjoys beating weaker players like 20-0 which both Alireza and Magnus find meaningless I suspect,\u201d which could be argued as the reason why Hikaru\u2019s streaks are far longer than the others. Kramnik\u2019s blog posts have since been flooded with comments from chess players and fans from around the world, all commenting with their thoughts on the accusations. One insightful comment from a mathematician at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, among others, has since been deleted by Kramnik after he accused Hikaru of \u201csending bots\u201d to defend him in the comments section. Hikaru, clearly frustrated by the \u201cvery disrespectful\u201d way Kramnik has approached these cheating allegations, has now taken a stand in a recent YouTube video. \u201cSomeone doesn\u2019t get to say these things without actual proof. They don\u2019t get to falsely accuse people over and over again without having to pay a price,\u201d Hikaru stated. \u201cIt\u2019s very disrespectful and to me, it shows that Kramnik simply has no respect for anybody at the end of the day. You don\u2019t get to make false accusations when you are not an expert. You don\u2019t get to make false accusations when you do not have data to back yourself up.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my record playing online, very proud of it, and I have nothing to hide.\u201d Furthermore, Hikaru took issue with Kramnik\u2019s accusation of \u201cfaking numbers and sending bots\u201d to attack him in the comments section. \u201cI would have to have an ego literally 100 times the size of my ego and it would have to be beyond chess to literally pay people, pay bots to come and post comments,\u201d Hikaru stated. \u201cI think it\u2019s very disrespectful of Kramnik.\u201d \u201cFor Kramnik to basically be insulting all of these mathematicians and statisticians who provided their name and used actual mathematical figures is very, very disrespectful and I think it shows that Kramnik has no respect for anybody at the end of the day.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s sad to see, but that\u2019s really where I\u2019m going to leave it for now because there\u2019s just\u2026 I don\u2019t see anything good coming from it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hikaru slams Vladimir Kramnik for deleting comments attacking chess cheating allegations Chess.comChess Grandmaster and Kick streamer Hikaru Nakamura has taken a stand against Vladimir Kramnik\u2019s \u201cdisrespectful\u201d cheating allegations. On November 20, fellow chess Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik accused Hikaru of cheating in a wildly cryptic Chess.com profile update. The accusation came not long after Hikaru smashed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}