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The best fiasco in history is the cheating of smart anal beads? Although the controversy is caused by a 19-year-old "supernova", but the suspicion of cheating and the shadow of the future hang over the chess world. In the era of high-tech ubiquity, when computers have far exceeded human beings, can the traditional chess arena maintain a pure and pure land?

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen (left) lost unexpectedly to 19-year-old Niemann (right) on September 4, when world No. 1 Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen lost to 19-year-old American Hans Niemann in the third round of the Chess Hinkfield Cup in St. Louis, USA, ending an unbeaten record of 53 games and revealing the biggest surprise in chess this year.

Carlson has been at the top of the chess ranking for ten years in a row, and has set a record for the highest score, and is regarded as the best chess GOAT in history. But in this match, the black Nieman suppressed Carlson almost everywhere, and seemed to know Carlson's moves like the back of his hand. He was the first chess player to beat Carlson in years. (in chess, being black means being at a disadvantage. )

However, Neiman is not a nobody. Although only 19 years old, Niman is a supernova in the chess world, rising as fast as a rocket. In two years, he has soared from 100th to 40th in the world ranking and won the title of Grandmaster last year, inviting only 10 top players to compete in the Hinkfield Cup.

Carlson forwarded Mourinho's famous quote and what is even more shocking is that immediately after the game, world champion Carlson announced that he would withdraw from the rest of the Sinkfield Cup and give up fighting for the championship prize of up to 100000 US dollars. This is the first withdrawal of his career. Moreover, Carlson retweeted the famous quote of football madman coach Jose Mourinho on Twitter: "if I tell the truth, I will be in big trouble, very big trouble."

It is very rare and incomprehensible for the world champion to give up the rest of the game just because of one defeat. Although Carlson did not continue to explain his decision, the chess world exploded. Although many people in the chess world praised Niemann's victory over Carlson, more people questioned that Niemann's victory may be fishy.

In the face of a flood of questions, "Dark Horse" Neiman sarcastically responded, "the world champion must be ashamed to lose to me. I really feel sorry for him." He also explained that he had guessed Carlson's start as a god and had made full preparations before the game.

After Carlson withdrew, Niman continued to compete in the Hinkfield Cup. However, organizers announced additional anti-cheating measures, including a 15-minute delay in broadcasting and the addition of radio frequency identification checks to prevent contestants from communicating with the outside world. In the end, Niman finished sixth in the tournament with a prize of 19750 US dollars.

Niman finally finished sixth in the Hinkfield Cup.

Niman, a 19-year-old American chess player, has become the focus of cheating in the chess world. The history of supernova Black revolves around Carlson's withdrawal, and opinions vary in the international chess world. Hikaru Nakamura, a chess grandmaster and game commentator, said bluntly, "Carlson is the world champion and there is no good reason not to withdraw. He must have a strong intuition that Niman must have cheated."

The reason why Nakamura distrusts Neiman is simple, because he has cheated several times in the online platform Chess.com. Another chess grandmaster, Andrew Tang, has also openly taken sides with Carlson, who has severed ties with Niman because of his cheating history.

Chess.com, an online chess platform with 90 million members, was initially reluctant to interfere with the incident. Their chess director, Daniel Rensch, declined to respond to the Niemann incident. "Chess.com will not openly discuss the issue of fair competition, so it will not comment on the events of the Hinkfield Cup and will not comment on the speculation of the chess world."

Neiman was blocked by Chess.com because he cheated in online competitions when he was 12 and 16. He did not deny the black history, but Niman insists his current victory is innocent, let alone cheating in a live game. Neiman angrily accused those who questioned him of trying to ruin their careers. In response to skepticism about his connection with the outside world during the game, Niman even announced that he could play chess naked to prove his innocence.

Of course, Neiman has his own supporters. Grandmaster Levon Aronian came out to play the round. "it often happens that young players perform very well. Our peers are a little neurotic."

Grandmaster Daniel King (Daniel King) also said, "Carlson is equivalent to throwing Neiman out of the car, making him a target. After being defeated, it looks like you can't afford to lose. Carlson didn't do very well either."

Aggad, Neiman's coach and grandmaster, believes in his disciples. "Neiman did cheat in online games before. But the Hinkfield Cup is a completely different game. Sometimes people cheat at home, which is no big deal. But that doesn't make me believe that he will use high-tech techniques like Mission impossible to cheat in big competitions."

Publicly reprimanding cheating may really be a narrow road for enemies. Despite dropping out of the Sinclair Cup, Carlson met Niman in another online match at the end of September. This time he directly chose to give up and no longer give Niman a chance to face himself. And this encounter, also aroused Carlson has calmed down the mood, so that he decided to come forward to pierce the matter.

On September 27, Carlson finally broke the three-week silence to explain his previous decision to withdraw from the race. He issued a statement, naming and questioning Neiman's use of cheating. Carlson not only thought that Nieman's sharp rise in the world rankings over the past year was too abnormal, but also explained that Neiman had some eccentricities in his game against him, which led him to suspect his opponent of cheating.

"when Niman was invited to participate in this year's Hinkfield Cup at the last minute, I strongly considered withdrawing from the competition. But in the end, I decided to keep playing. I believe Neiman has more cheating than he admits. His chess was unusual and I had a feeling throughout the game that he wasn't nervous or even completely focused on the chessboard. He hacked the way he beat me, and I think only a few chess players can do it. This chess game deepens my skepticism. "

Carlson stressed that he would never face Niman again or compete with contestants he suspected of cheating. "We have to do something about cheating. as far as I'm concerned, I don't want to compete with people who have cheated many times because I don't know if they will continue to cheat."

Finally, he called on the entire chess community to pay attention to the problem of cheating. "I think cheating is a very serious matter for chess and a threat to the sport. I think event organizers and those who are concerned about the sanctity of chess should seriously consider increasing security measures and cheating detection methods."

Chess.com issued a blockbuster report accusing Neiman of cheating hundreds of times. After Carlson publicly reprimanded Neiman, Chess.com also broke its usual silence and released a 72-page investigation report this week detailing their findings on Niemann's previous cheating.

The survey report is like a blockbuster, uncovering the black history of the chess "supernova" Neiman, and raising the problem of cheating to the severity of chess's future survival. In addition to Chess.com 's survey report, the Chess Federation (FIDE) is also conducting its own independent investigation.

It should be noted that Chess.com is currently buying Carlson's chess app Play Magnus; for $83 million, so there is a relationship of interest between the two sides. But Chess.com stressed that the investigation report had nothing to do with Carlson and that the two sides had never communicated about Niemann.

The Chess.com survey provides a wealth of evidence based on data analysis, relying on a number of cheating tests to determine whether or not to cheat, including comparing players' chess moves with supercomputer recommendations and taking advice from chess fair competition experts. According to the report, Niman may have used illegal cheating in more than 100 online games by 2020, including some games with winning chess prizes, 25 of which were broadcast live.

The survey report also believes that there is an anomaly in the sharp surge in Nieman's performance in a series of face-to-face offline competitions. "there are many interesting signals and anomalies in his chess career." In addition to online games, Niman is the fastest-growing chess player in the contemporary chess world. Purely from the ranking point of view, Nieman is a top young chess player. Although we do not doubt his talent, we note that his achievements are statistically extraordinary. " According to Chess.com, Niman is the fastest growing player under the age of 20.

Niman confessed to cheating and admitted wrongdoing in a phone call with Chess.com chess director Renzi in 2020, when he wanted a chance to return to the platform. To prove that Niman had confessed to cheating, the Chess.com report also included screenshots of Niemann's Slack conversation with Renzi.

Chess.com has blocked Neiman's account after it was found to have cheated. In a letter to Nieman, the website wrote that he had openly used deception to improve his strength in a number of chess games, including a match against Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi.

After Chess.com kicked him out of the multimillion-dollar International Championship (Global Championship), the site's chess director Renzi e-mailed Neiman, explaining that "there have always been concerns that you cheated unscrupulously in the Grand Prix, and the risk is too high."

Renzi pointed out that Niman opened a new window on the computer several times during the game on the front line, and although the platform could not know exactly what app Niemann opened, it was probably using a chess engine for calculation. To prevent players from cheating in online games, Chess.com monitors players' use of computers during the game.

Chess.com 's investigation report also highlighted Niman's excellent offline games, which needed to be further investigated. However, since there is no cheating test in these offline competitions, it is impossible to draw an exact conclusion as to whether he cheated or not.

Nieman has to accept the shadow of strict security checks before the game. At present, the chess world is mainly suspicious. Nieman used covert electronic means to contact the outside world in the game with Carlson, and got recommended moves from the chess computing engine. And then fight Carlson. If so, Carlson could be forgiven for his fiasco to Neiman, who actually lost to the computer. After that game, Carlson said privately that he had never played like this before and that everything seemed to be under Niman's control.

But the problem is that there is no evidence to prove that Niman cheated in the offline game. British grandmaster Daniel King mentioned, "there were cameras on Niman all the time during that game." Niman himself argued that "the organizers have the most stringent means of preventing cheating in chess." It means you don't have the ability to cheat and you can't cheat.

Despite the controversy, Niman competed in the US Chess Championship this week. He became the most high-profile chess player in the game. Although Niman claims to be able to compete naked, it is clear that the organizers will not do so. Before the game starts, he and other chess players need to be examined by metal detectors and swept through every part of their body.

However, after Carlson blasted cheating, the attitude of his chess counterparts towards Neiman has changed significantly, and he is seen as a former and possible liar. In this week's US Chess Championship, Russian grandmaster Peter Svidler, although he did not refuse to play against Neiman, was unkind to his opponent, who was suspected of cheating. "my attitude towards this issue is very firm. There is no difference between online cheating and offline cheating. I think the attitude of the international chess community towards cheating players is really too loose and too tolerant."

Unless new evidence is found, only Niman himself knows whether he cheated or not and how he cheated. Some netizens even speculated that Niman announced that he could play chess naked, maybe he used an intelligent device stuffed into his anus to send and receive messages through anus lifting.

The speculation quickly sparked a heated debate on the Internet, with even Musk retweeting the relevant tweets and quoting the philosopher Schopenhauer. "the capable cannot reach, but the wise can never see it. (because it's stuffed in your chrysanthemum). It seems that the richest man in the world has a great sense of humor recently and likes to quote famous people.

However, apart from the banter, the Neiman suspicion of cheating hurt the whole chess game. In the future chess competition, the continuous upgrading of high-tech anti-cheating technology can only be used to prevent chess players from upgrading high-tech cheating technology, so as to maintain the purity of human intelligence in this sport. Because in the face of computer software, even the best chess history is vulnerable. Once the chess player succeeds in cheating (connected to the chess engine), the game loses its meaning.

Chess is an important milestone in the history of computer and artificial intelligence. As early as 1947, the British scientist Turing began to write programs for chess. In 1989, meditation, developed by Carnegie Mellon University, became the first computer grandmaster, and the project was the predecessor of Deep Blue. In 1997, Deep Blue beat the then world champion Kasparov, officially marking the conquest of the computer in the field of chess.

Compared with chess, oriental go is much more complex and is considered to be the pinnacle of human board games. In terms of state space complexity, chess is 10 to the 46th power, while go is 10 to the 172nd power. According to the complexity of the game tree, chess is 10 to the 123 power, while go is 10 to the 300 power.

In 2006, artificial intelligence scientist Hinton (G. Hinton) proposed a deep learning training algorithm, which realized computer progressive self-learning and constantly improved high precision, which made AI conquer go from a dream to a reality. In 2010, Google launched Google Brain's deep learning tool. Google AlphaGo beat South Korean player Lee se-dol and Chinese player Ke Jie in 2016 and 2017. Exactly 20 years after conquering chess, artificial intelligence finally conquered the field of go.

After being defeated by AlphaGo, Ke Jie, as the last line of human defense, could not help but burst into tears: an era is over.

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