How did Hans Norman’s cheating scheme work, and hot was he found out?
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It is certain that he cheated playing online, he confessed to it. However, many people consider online chess as a video game and not a serious matter.
Hans also happened to grow as a player during the same time, and his growth looks amazing due to many reasons such as the pandemic. His sudden improved strength led to people thinking he has cheated in board chess competitions as well, since he has cheated online before.
When the World Champion lost to him, he got paranoid and couldn’t believe he lost to the weakest player, which added on to the previous suspicion that Hans could be cheating he had earlier. Hence he withdrew from the tournament and basically accused him of cheating.
As of now despite people trying very hard, no one has found any evidence of him cheating when playing the world champion and other board competitions. Most credible people believe he didn’t cheat against the world champion, and most likely never cheated at all in real competitions.
However, the world champion has many fans and is a business partner with a big online chess company, all who want to protect his image. His fans will never accept that he lost to Hans fairly and was wrong in making false accusations. Add to the fact that many of the chess community plays chess online and encountered a lot of cheating, and some of them will love to see an online cheater burn. So Hans is getting plenty of heat for that despite there being zero evidence of cheating.
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