Denis Khismatullin’ is a supporter of Russian's genocidal war against Ukraine. Staying away from this Person and his account ist like something any reasonable man would do
Yes, this is a genuine concern and is probably enough to get him also removed from platforms where he streamed. Calling on your follower to pile on someone is commonly against TOS of Twitch / YT
> He is literally asking others to harass him too, by pointing at him. What a colossal manchild, holy shit
Yep. We can all read between the lines. Kramnik is asking his supporters to harrass galchenko for getting him ousted from titled tuesday. Unless the translation is wrong, chesscom needs to ban kramnik outright. This is way more serious than kramnik cheating on titled tuesday.
Kramnik's behavior is even more egregious when you consider that kramnik has been accusing hikaru and others of asking their supporters to harrass him. When in actuality, hikaru and others did the very opposite and asked their supporters not to harrass kramnik.
This is another example of kramnik accusing others of doing exactly what he himself is doing. The more he reveals about his hypocritical nature, the more apparent it becomes that kramnik himself is a cheater. Consider this, the only world champ ( out of Kasparov, Anand, Magnus, Ding, Kramnik ) who has serious cheating accusations hanging over his head is kramnik. And would you believe it, kramnik is leading the charge against cheating? How convenient.
It is remarkable that the chess world would be substantialy better off if a former world champion completely stopped engaging with the scene. And for basically chess related reasons.
>It is remarkable that the chess world would be substantialy better off if a former world champion completely stopped engaging with the scene.
I mean, looking at the history of the world championship, I think that "the chess world being better off without former champion X" is the norm, not something remarkable.
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So the guy who claims almost everyone who defeats him is cheating is the actual one cheating using another amount, and is trying to blame someone who found about it?
Never really thought about it but a lot of chess players are younger than I think because they hit GM at a young age:
* Kasparov - 60
* Ivanchuck - 55
* Gelfand - 55
* Anand - 54
* Shirov - 51
* Topalov - 49
* Morozevich - 46
* Judit - 47
* Leko - 44
Profesional Chess players can still compete at older ages than in physical sports. For example Anand at 54 is still easily a top 100 player. I can't think of any physical sport where that would be the case.
Maybe Golf?
What the tactics! I actually needed to check, because I didn't believe this could be real. In my mind I grouped him in the same cohort as my elderly family members, but he's actually closer to my age. Wow.
So Kramnik is salty for somebody finding out and revealing him cheating. Perhaps only Kramnik is allowed to accuse others of cheating but everybody else should keep their mouth shut if they notice any cheating.
Kramnik definitely has bigtime "I followed a woman into the women's bathroom because I was worried she was a man going into a women's bathroom" energy.
Not sure if you know but "toiletgate" is a specific incident where Topalov accused Kramnik of cheating in a the world championship reunification match in 2006. He still maintains Kramnik was cheating.
I don't know about cheating in world championships but I am 99% convinced that Kramnik cheated on chesscom atleast to check the anti cheating measures. Then when it didn't ban him he started his crusades. Or he cheated cause he thought someone else was cheating.
I have absolutely no doubt this is true lmao. Like, literally 90%+ confident (and I'm usually known for being conservative in my guesses). There's no reason he'd be this confident about his ridiculous cheating accusations otherwise.
There was a big toiletgate during Kramnik-Topalov WCC match, when Topalov's team openly accused Kramnik of cheating and there was a real chance that the match will be stopped.
He’s literally the only player suspected of cheating in a world championship. It’s projection all the way down . . .
Edit: I mean turtles, turtles all the way down
The Karpov/ Soviet side in Baguio pulled some crazy stunts though. They had a hypnotist sit in the front row and just stare at Korchnoi during the game, for instance.
Yeah, Topalov was suspected of cheating. In San Luis 2005, the other FIDE WC contenders suspected he was cheating after going 6.5/7. He was moved to a different table for the second half of the tournament and didn't win another game.
Here's more info on how many different parties thought Topalov was cheating: https://en.chessbase.com/post/nigel-short-pushes-for-cheating-enquiry
To be fair to Topalov that's the same Nigel Short who claimed he was playing Fischer moonlighting as a genius recluse on ICC when he was actually foaming at the mouth somewhere in suburban Reykjavik
It was always obvious Kramnik had some guilty conscious' I thought that from the start that it will inevitebly be him who gets found out for flouting the rules. I love being right. I love that Kramnik got what was owed to him even more though.
So he stalls and blocks when people win, uses alt accounts and calls out cheating while cheating himself? I had no idea I’d played against him so many times
Every time I think Kramnik couldn't possibly get more smug, he proves he can.
"Youtuber posing as chess player", my ass. I guess, now everyone has to get a license signed by him or they can't possibly call themselves a chess player? Dude, it's just a fucking board game, everyone can play it.
That time was like a year or two ago when the Hans thing happened.
Need to start stripping titles, that’s the only way I can think of to deter cheating at the highest levels. They have almost nothing to lose but reputation & invites. If they start losing titles I guarantee it will slow the spread at least, because very few GMs will want to risk their precious lifetime titles
I love the hypocrisy. He is simply a cheater. It's kinda obvious now. Someone who cheats is always thinking the same about others. Zero accountability on his behavior. Hell even Hans had more accountability. Kramnik is finding finally the cheater in TT. Wouldn't have thought it's him after all he have done, but it makes sense.
The irony is just scripted. It's too good to be true really. No more "let's do the procedure". Glad he is out.
Impressive. All Kramnik had to do was gracefully see out the final phase of his career and he would have gone down as a respected and legendary chess player. Instead he's tearing apart his legacy day by day. Still one of the all time greats, but now when we think of Kramnik it is a lot more muddy.
That's the sad part. I always liked the guy, he had a sense of humor, seemed to be genuinely nice. I enjoyed listening to his commentary, his interviews were always interesting. I think most people in the chess world had a lot of respect for him. All down the drain.
I would agree with that tbh. I do think he's been let off a LOT easier than any of us would, but it's a start and it's getting Vlad angry, so I'll take it
I just remembered that chesscom implemented a rule which allows you to evade a cheating ban IF you admit it (for titled players only if I understand correctly), so *technically*, he did admit it, but by that logic, the TT ban should also be revoked..? Idk man
Vlad played on his account circa Sept/Oct. 2023 to December 2023. He got suspended early January.
From [chess.com](https://www.chess.com/news/view/polish-number-1-refuses-handshake-with-russian-gm)
I find it particularly disturbing that, in a context of easy witch-hunting and emotional fanaticism, he has no hesitation in publicly presenting someone else as the cause of his impossibility to play in Titled Tuesday.
You know, it's so embarrassing to look at, especially considering that I'm russian myself and he's one of the high level players who kind of "represent" your country in professional chess (honestly maybe I still don't know a lot since I'm newbie, but I often see news how he accusing people, talking shit while cheating himself, lol)
If that translation is accurate, that's all we need to hear from Kramnik to know he's at least an asshole, if not a narcissist.
He's mad at someone for exposing him breaking the (very clear) rules and also makes no effort to take accountability for actually breaking them, nor seeing any wrong in him doing it.
This despite the constant cheating accusations against other players.
I'm done with this guy, hopefully we can now all stop posting his regular accusations as if they are news.
Holy shit his other tweets in that thread are embarrassing.. typical cheater behaviour where when you get caught you just deflect any and all blame to whatever possible. Crazy.
Feels like chess.om wanted to ban Kramnik due to his "cheating tuesday streams" filled with ridiculous accusations towards anyone who dared to beat Kramnik.
They found a reason to ban him without touching his cheating accusations
Given he was just blurting out scattergun cheating accusations at every single person who beat him, and a ton of people at random, the accusations are easy to dismiss, on the grounds that someone who calls everyone a cheat gives you absolutely zero indication as to whether they're more likely than anyone else to be cheating.
Here is the comment of Mr Kramnik under the video where Galchenko exposes him playing on Denis' account. It is written in Russian, so I just ran it through google translate:
In response to the nervous attacks of YouTuber Galchenko, I can say the following:
As an experiment to collect data and test cheating methods in chesscom, I actually played SEVERAL tournaments under the nickname Krakozia, which I chose from FIVE accounts offered to me for this purpose by fellow grandmasters. I chose this one primarily because of the similarity of our ratings and the approximate strength of the game on the platform. By the way, many Russian and foreign top players knew about this. I said right away that even if I accidentally earned a prize, I was not going to take it away.
In the tournaments that I played, I didn’t make it into the top five.
I received the most useful information by playing under a different nickname, which I also use to build an anti-cheating system. I don’t see a problem in playing under someone else’s nickname if the chess player is comparable in strength to the owner
A frequent practice in chesscom, if the author of this denunciation does not know about it, I'm informing you.
It’s certainly more ethical than playing completely incognito, as many chess players did. After all, at least this way the opponent knows the approximate strength of the opponent. And even more so than publishing dirty denunciations on their channels.
I myself know of several cases, but due to the lack of “crime” in this, I am not going to name names, simply for ethical reasons, plus self-esteem.
I don’t know YouTuber Galchenko either as a person or as a chess player, but his dirty hints and attempts to denigrate me, made with a feigned smile, do not make me want to get to know him. But I’ll look at the games and publish OBJECTIVE conclusions as soon as they reach players at the FIDE 2400 level. Currently busy analyzing chess players' games. I will publish the results soon, many impressive performances.
No respect
Vladimir Kramnik
in Russian in the end of the letter it is common to write "с уважением" which literally means "with respect", so having written "без уважения" ("No respect") mr Kramnik emphasized his feelings towards Galchenko for his revealing video
Without trying to diagnose from afar, I'd wager that Kramnik is mentally ill. Some of these behaviors go back a long way in slightly altered forms. The whole thing makes me sad, really, because Big Vlad is an amazing player, and has often been gregarious and good humored to an exceptional degree.
The increased paranoia, narcissism, and intensified persecution complex in a bubble largely of his own creation is sadly parallel to many of his age (I'm a few years older) and their political views and expression nowadays...as is this kind of reaction when caught, countered or rebuffed.
All this talk about cheating in chess is kind of crazy. Do we really think there are so many players who are breaking the rules like the chess cheater Vladimir Kramnik? Is Kramniks cheating just the top of the ice berg? Call me naive but I can't help to think that just because Kramnik cheats at chess it doesn't mean that other top players are doing it. Vladimir Kramniks cheating should not stain other players, and just because Vladimir Kramnik is a cheater doesn't mean that every other top player is.
This guy is something else. I initially thought he was trolling when blaming everyone for cheating (for the views, of course), but I truly believe he has some sorta egotistical problem that doesn’t look good for him
So we should blame someone else for his wrongdoing and cheating? Is that what he's saying? Bloody guy's unhinged indeed. Too old to have teenagers tantrum, too young to be be bitter old man.
He is obviously implying that his fans should go and send abuse to him, Vlad frankly should be banned for that as well, very disappointing conduct from a former world champion
Really, what happened to this man?
He used to be such a legend, such a respected and admirable man. He was the one to defeat Kasparov, he was the Iceman. He was so well regarded and now he is just trash. His legacy, his reputation, his career and all, just wasted. Thrown into oblivion, mockery and shame. Damn dude, the guy has gone from king to clown.
I would feel sorry for him but he is not making it easy. I don’t feel sorry for him.
Not sure they even minded that much. Kramnik calling it 'cheating tuesday' is kind of bad. On the other hand noone took him seriously anymore.
Whether or not they waited for it: This was just a clear breaking of the rules. It is Kramniks sole responsibility. He fucked up and now he can't even admit it.
Lmaoo is he actually blaming the guy who found out?
Yes, plus he says that the guy is "posing as a chess player". [Guy is an IM.](https://ratings.fide.com/profile/24175480)
LMAO
Denis Khismatullin’ is a supporter of Russian's genocidal war against Ukraine. Staying away from this Person and his account ist like something any reasonable man would do
Kramnik himself is very pro-Putin iirc. I remember he posted insane conspiracy theories on Twitter a while ago
Wow he's bat shit insane.
yeah, he's genuinely unwell. i'm not having a good time with this anymore
Narcissistic personality disorder.
People can be bad without being sick.
I came across this guy posing as a Minecraft player, but then I checked his Steam profile and he has less than 10,000h in game, smh
Fake Minecraft fan spotted, it's not on steam.
Probably thinks he earned his IM title playing some "interesting" games.
That's what the I stands for. Interesting Master.
That’s also the guy who absolutely utterly annihilated Levy not that far ago
This from Kramnik who actually pretended to be a chess player. (See [*accusation in a mirror*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror).)
Not just blaming.. He is literally asking others to harass him too, by pointing at him. What a colossal manchild, holy shit
Yes, this is a genuine concern and is probably enough to get him also removed from platforms where he streamed. Calling on your follower to pile on someone is commonly against TOS of Twitch / YT
should be banned from twitch and all major streaming sites too then.
> He is literally asking others to harass him too, by pointing at him. What a colossal manchild, holy shit Yep. We can all read between the lines. Kramnik is asking his supporters to harrass galchenko for getting him ousted from titled tuesday. Unless the translation is wrong, chesscom needs to ban kramnik outright. This is way more serious than kramnik cheating on titled tuesday. Kramnik's behavior is even more egregious when you consider that kramnik has been accusing hikaru and others of asking their supporters to harrass him. When in actuality, hikaru and others did the very opposite and asked their supporters not to harrass kramnik. This is another example of kramnik accusing others of doing exactly what he himself is doing. The more he reveals about his hypocritical nature, the more apparent it becomes that kramnik himself is a cheater. Consider this, the only world champ ( out of Kasparov, Anand, Magnus, Ding, Kramnik ) who has serious cheating accusations hanging over his head is kramnik. And would you believe it, kramnik is leading the charge against cheating? How convenient.
Topalov is smugly sipping a champagne and saying "I told you motherfuckers 15 years ago"
Cheaters are usually the most suspicious people. Because they see it as a normal behaviour. "If I do it, why wouldn't that guy do it?"
It is remarkable that the chess world would be substantialy better off if a former world champion completely stopped engaging with the scene. And for basically chess related reasons.
>It is remarkable that the chess world would be substantialy better off if a former world champion completely stopped engaging with the scene. I mean, looking at the history of the world championship, I think that "the chess world being better off without former champion X" is the norm, not something remarkable.
Who do you have in mind? Fischer, obviously, but outside of him nobody really comes to mind.
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There’s no need for this discriminatory rhetoric.
This man is 48 years of age.
of rage.
Despite all his rage, he is still just a rat on a stage.
Rage Against the Stockfish
A rat on stage 48 years of age Blinded by his rage On a rampage
Is the Rat trapped in his own maze?
Not old enough to be this senile
A crazy old man, and he's not even old.
This makes total sense because he acts like an 84 year old teenager.
Haha so true! A senile tantrum thrower. Just split the difference xD
Forgot that every single time, thanks for the reminder.
Kramnik is like if you took a boomer and let them tell people they were 48
So the guy who claims almost everyone who defeats him is cheating is the actual one cheating using another amount, and is trying to blame someone who found about it?
And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!
I swear he was 67 or something xD
Holy fuck he really is
Never really thought about it but a lot of chess players are younger than I think because they hit GM at a young age: * Kasparov - 60 * Ivanchuck - 55 * Gelfand - 55 * Anand - 54 * Shirov - 51 * Topalov - 49 * Morozevich - 46 * Judit - 47 * Leko - 44
It is wild that people generally have a decline in their chess performance not that much later than professional athletes do at their sport.
Profesional Chess players can still compete at older ages than in physical sports. For example Anand at 54 is still easily a top 100 player. I can't think of any physical sport where that would be the case. Maybe Golf?
Yes, I had to go look it up too just to make sure xD
With age you can also accumulate dumbness.
Sheesh, that’s still relatively young imo. I thought Kramnik was in his 60s at least.
What the tactics! I actually needed to check, because I didn't believe this could be real. In my mind I grouped him in the same cohort as my elderly family members, but he's actually closer to my age. Wow.
I think age being a barometer of maturity was a defunct notion as soon as Trump took office.
I think this reference is that most people thought he was \*older\*, since he's giving off angry old man vibes.
It's not his fault he got banned, it's the whisteblower's. When you ask for accountability, while holding yourself to none.
Kramnik: What's chess.com doing about all these cheaters? *Gets banned from prize tournaments for cheating* Kramnik: No wait, not like that!
Classic LAMF
So Kramnik is salty for somebody finding out and revealing him cheating. Perhaps only Kramnik is allowed to accuse others of cheating but everybody else should keep their mouth shut if they notice any cheating.
Makes you rethink toiletgate. Since people who believe everyone is a cheater are often cheaters themselves.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social\_projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection)
Kramnik definitely has bigtime "I followed a woman into the women's bathroom because I was worried she was a man going into a women's bathroom" energy.
Not sure if you know but "toiletgate" is a specific incident where Topalov accused Kramnik of cheating in a the world championship reunification match in 2006. He still maintains Kramnik was cheating.
According to Kramnik, he had an upset stomach that day, which caused him to go to the toilet multiple times for one game
Yeah well according to my son his car broke down and the bus was late and his phone was out of battery so that's why he was late home last night.
Gross, and that is correct.
I don't know about cheating in world championships but I am 99% convinced that Kramnik cheated on chesscom atleast to check the anti cheating measures. Then when it didn't ban him he started his crusades. Or he cheated cause he thought someone else was cheating.
I have absolutely no doubt this is true lmao. Like, literally 90%+ confident (and I'm usually known for being conservative in my guesses). There's no reason he'd be this confident about his ridiculous cheating accusations otherwise.
I always fully believed kramnik had cheated that WCC, even if only for a single game, dude is a legend no doubt, but what a terrible person.
The Toiletgate GM died at the weekend.
There was a big toiletgate during Kramnik-Topalov WCC match, when Topalov's team openly accused Kramnik of cheating and there was a real chance that the match will be stopped.
Wait really?
Everyone hates on The Great Divide episode of ATLA but it isn’t wrong.
Noo nooo, he wasn't cheating! He was only "cheating" to investigate how easy it is to cheat.
He’s literally the only player suspected of cheating in a world championship. It’s projection all the way down . . . Edit: I mean turtles, turtles all the way down
Not true. Topalov was also suspected. Korchnoi vs Karpov drama was even more intense
Those two just hated each other though
The Karpov/ Soviet side in Baguio pulled some crazy stunts though. They had a hypnotist sit in the front row and just stare at Korchnoi during the game, for instance.
By that standard it was Fischer and Spasky, I mean literal mind control folks, I mean microwaves and special lsd, if you know you know man 😉
I’ve played chess on lsd, it was against someone else also on lsd but I won so from my perspective it clearly makes you better at chess
tbf to Fischer, the Russians did collude against him.
Yeah, Topalov was suspected of cheating. In San Luis 2005, the other FIDE WC contenders suspected he was cheating after going 6.5/7. He was moved to a different table for the second half of the tournament and didn't win another game. Here's more info on how many different parties thought Topalov was cheating: https://en.chessbase.com/post/nigel-short-pushes-for-cheating-enquiry
To be fair to Topalov that's the same Nigel Short who claimed he was playing Fischer moonlighting as a genius recluse on ICC when he was actually foaming at the mouth somewhere in suburban Reykjavik
It was always obvious Kramnik had some guilty conscious' I thought that from the start that it will inevitebly be him who gets found out for flouting the rules. I love being right. I love that Kramnik got what was owed to him even more though.
To everyone who wanted to watch my stream from titles, thank me for breaking the rules and being salty when I'm caught.
Is Kramnik now the highest rated player found cheating?
And only world chess champion?
Second world champ to go crazy though
He s not only a high rated player, he s wc. He took the title from fucking goat kasparov. He have a lot to lose.
Kramnik should be happy - he's finally proven that there is cheating occurring on chesscom. Cheating by Kramnik that is.
I never thought that Kramnik would end up proving chess grandmasters cheating at extremely high levels.
"I have exposed corruption, and I **will** expect a medal."
The Obama medal meme
Kramnik already proved cheating. He just used the Michael Scott bankruptcy method: "I. DECLARE. CHEATINNGGG."
That's Hella funny 🤣🤣
So he stalls and blocks when people win, uses alt accounts and calls out cheating while cheating himself? I had no idea I’d played against him so many times
Every time I think Kramnik couldn't possibly get more smug, he proves he can. "Youtuber posing as chess player", my ass. I guess, now everyone has to get a license signed by him or they can't possibly call themselves a chess player? Dude, it's just a fucking board game, everyone can play it.
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No, but you see; he's _merely_ just an IM. Obviously those aren't chess players.
His ego and entitlement are surreal.
Well, looks like Kramnik was right about the cheaters after all…
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That time was like a year or two ago when the Hans thing happened. Need to start stripping titles, that’s the only way I can think of to deter cheating at the highest levels. They have almost nothing to lose but reputation & invites. If they start losing titles I guarantee it will slow the spread at least, because very few GMs will want to risk their precious lifetime titles
Only reason he hasn’t been permabanned is because he was World Champion.
I love the hypocrisy. He is simply a cheater. It's kinda obvious now. Someone who cheats is always thinking the same about others. Zero accountability on his behavior. Hell even Hans had more accountability. Kramnik is finding finally the cheater in TT. Wouldn't have thought it's him after all he have done, but it makes sense. The irony is just scripted. It's too good to be true really. No more "let's do the procedure". Glad he is out.
finally, fucking finally. Just need him to do 1 more bullshit and so they can ban him entirely.
And how will he then provide entertainment?
He will open his own chess site with blackjack and hookers.
Oh, he’ll manage, I’m sure
He'll move to lichess. And wage a crusade against the cheaters there while cheating himself of course.
I hear the circus is a good place to work these days, they're looking for a new clown
# Why does mr Kramnik play TT on Denis Khismatullin’s account?
Impressive. All Kramnik had to do was gracefully see out the final phase of his career and he would have gone down as a respected and legendary chess player. Instead he's tearing apart his legacy day by day. Still one of the all time greats, but now when we think of Kramnik it is a lot more muddy.
That's the sad part. I always liked the guy, he had a sense of humor, seemed to be genuinely nice. I enjoyed listening to his commentary, his interviews were always interesting. I think most people in the chess world had a lot of respect for him. All down the drain.
As did I. Such a shame. Hard to understand why this happened. What made him snap?
Fischer could have lived a life of fame and luxury after his championship win. Instead he went down the crazy anti-Semitic hobo route.
Once is an anomaly. Two world champions going crazy? Clearly chess makes you insane
Impossible! How can they ban him if he already quit? "I have decided to stop playing on chess.com from tomorrow on."
takes a cheater to idenitfy a cheater :p
Rare Chess.c\*m win, actions have consequences, Vlad
But shouldn’t his whole account being shut down? TT is at least something I guess
I would agree with that tbh. I do think he's been let off a LOT easier than any of us would, but it's a start and it's getting Vlad angry, so I'll take it
I just remembered that chesscom implemented a rule which allows you to evade a cheating ban IF you admit it (for titled players only if I understand correctly), so *technically*, he did admit it, but by that logic, the TT ban should also be revoked..? Idk man
he probably will also get his diamond membership. well played kramnik, well played.
You are allowed to say Chess.cum
I'm more implying that the name of the site is a slur, but I like that too
Chess.semen
Ahahaha, okay this was pretty funny. Kramnik: "Ofc I know cheaters....it's me"
Interesting
Good riddance.
Imagine how many celebrated people from history there must be who would have tarnished their reputations if they’d had access to social media.
"How dare they make me accountable for my own actions?"
Finally. Let the crying commence.
Shouldn't Denis also be suspended?
I think he was already because of his war stance. That was the guy who Duda didn't wanna shake hands with
Thanks.
How was he sysoended for his war stanje if vlad played on his acc?
Vlad played on his account circa Sept/Oct. 2023 to December 2023. He got suspended early January. From [chess.com](https://www.chess.com/news/view/polish-number-1-refuses-handshake-with-russian-gm)
lmaoooo Kramnik actually cheated hahahahaha
I find it particularly disturbing that, in a context of easy witch-hunting and emotional fanaticism, he has no hesitation in publicly presenting someone else as the cause of his impossibility to play in Titled Tuesday.
You know, it's so embarrassing to look at, especially considering that I'm russian myself and he's one of the high level players who kind of "represent" your country in professional chess (honestly maybe I still don't know a lot since I'm newbie, but I often see news how he accusing people, talking shit while cheating himself, lol)
No one with maturity really cares about that stuff. Russia is remembered for better players than Kramnik anyway.
If that translation is accurate, that's all we need to hear from Kramnik to know he's at least an asshole, if not a narcissist. He's mad at someone for exposing him breaking the (very clear) rules and also makes no effort to take accountability for actually breaking them, nor seeing any wrong in him doing it. This despite the constant cheating accusations against other players. I'm done with this guy, hopefully we can now all stop posting his regular accusations as if they are news.
When you stare too long into the cheating abyss...
Kramnik suspended for breach of fair play is peak irony.
Funny part is he was actually pulling decent numbers on his YT Live streams. So he also lost income from donations.
You played yourself by not playing yourself.
Ngl, I'm gonna miss his TT streams
Is the other guy who gave him his account banned too? Cuz he should be imo.
Holy shit his other tweets in that thread are embarrassing.. typical cheater behaviour where when you get caught you just deflect any and all blame to whatever possible. Crazy.
Pretty sure, from now on, he will only use his friends account. So keep an eye.
You can’t script this… it’s a pretty tragic way for his career to wind down…
Calling for his followers/fans to pile on this player is just awful. No recognition that he broke the rules. Is he genuinely ok?
This Kramnik guy sounds like a real jerk
Dear God. Why can't Kramnik just be a likeable former world champion like Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, and Carlsen?
I thought Russians had a pretty good grip on the concept of irony
Is this the guy complaining about cheaters? Ans he cheated himself?
Feels like chess.om wanted to ban Kramnik due to his "cheating tuesday streams" filled with ridiculous accusations towards anyone who dared to beat Kramnik. They found a reason to ban him without touching his cheating accusations
Given he was just blurting out scattergun cheating accusations at every single person who beat him, and a ton of people at random, the accusations are easy to dismiss, on the grounds that someone who calls everyone a cheat gives you absolutely zero indication as to whether they're more likely than anyone else to be cheating.
Eat some popcorn
Interesting
This guy is such a piece of shit
This is like when a fighter constantly accuses his opponents of being on steroids, then pisses hot for PEDS himself haha.
The gift that keeps on giving...
Here is the comment of Mr Kramnik under the video where Galchenko exposes him playing on Denis' account. It is written in Russian, so I just ran it through google translate: In response to the nervous attacks of YouTuber Galchenko, I can say the following: As an experiment to collect data and test cheating methods in chesscom, I actually played SEVERAL tournaments under the nickname Krakozia, which I chose from FIVE accounts offered to me for this purpose by fellow grandmasters. I chose this one primarily because of the similarity of our ratings and the approximate strength of the game on the platform. By the way, many Russian and foreign top players knew about this. I said right away that even if I accidentally earned a prize, I was not going to take it away. In the tournaments that I played, I didn’t make it into the top five. I received the most useful information by playing under a different nickname, which I also use to build an anti-cheating system. I don’t see a problem in playing under someone else’s nickname if the chess player is comparable in strength to the owner A frequent practice in chesscom, if the author of this denunciation does not know about it, I'm informing you. It’s certainly more ethical than playing completely incognito, as many chess players did. After all, at least this way the opponent knows the approximate strength of the opponent. And even more so than publishing dirty denunciations on their channels. I myself know of several cases, but due to the lack of “crime” in this, I am not going to name names, simply for ethical reasons, plus self-esteem. I don’t know YouTuber Galchenko either as a person or as a chess player, but his dirty hints and attempts to denigrate me, made with a feigned smile, do not make me want to get to know him. But I’ll look at the games and publish OBJECTIVE conclusions as soon as they reach players at the FIDE 2400 level. Currently busy analyzing chess players' games. I will publish the results soon, many impressive performances. No respect Vladimir Kramnik
Wait, did he really end with 'No respect' or it's some poor translation?
in Russian in the end of the letter it is common to write "с уважением" which literally means "with respect", so having written "без уважения" ("No respect") mr Kramnik emphasized his feelings towards Galchenko for his revealing video
Didn't Kramnik once say something about how chesscom needs to go after all cheaters, even if they are high profile GMs?
Without trying to diagnose from afar, I'd wager that Kramnik is mentally ill. Some of these behaviors go back a long way in slightly altered forms. The whole thing makes me sad, really, because Big Vlad is an amazing player, and has often been gregarious and good humored to an exceptional degree. The increased paranoia, narcissism, and intensified persecution complex in a bubble largely of his own creation is sadly parallel to many of his age (I'm a few years older) and their political views and expression nowadays...as is this kind of reaction when caught, countered or rebuffed.
Finally they did something about this nutcase. Absolute disgrace to the sport, and his days of positively contributing to the game are long gone
All this talk about cheating in chess is kind of crazy. Do we really think there are so many players who are breaking the rules like the chess cheater Vladimir Kramnik? Is Kramniks cheating just the top of the ice berg? Call me naive but I can't help to think that just because Kramnik cheats at chess it doesn't mean that other top players are doing it. Vladimir Kramniks cheating should not stain other players, and just because Vladimir Kramnik is a cheater doesn't mean that every other top player is.
This guy is something else. I initially thought he was trolling when blaming everyone for cheating (for the views, of course), but I truly believe he has some sorta egotistical problem that doesn’t look good for him
I like how Kramnik tweets in russian when he wants to say his dumbest things. Fits so well
knows his audience
lmao actual crybaby
So we should blame someone else for his wrongdoing and cheating? Is that what he's saying? Bloody guy's unhinged indeed. Too old to have teenagers tantrum, too young to be be bitter old man.
He is obviously implying that his fans should go and send abuse to him, Vlad frankly should be banned for that as well, very disappointing conduct from a former world champion
Kramnik has lost his mind. But not his playing strength he seems to be just as strong lmao
I wonder how he even found out. If Denis appeared to be playing suspiciously too well what connected him to kramnik
So he was the cheater the whole time
Don't blame me for cheating, blame the guy who ratted me out.
I would love to see Jospem tweet out sometime like "Thinking about pulling out Clash of Claims as I'm not a fan of playing cheaters."
He quote-tweeted chesscom's statement and only added the thinking face emoji: https://twitter.com/GMJoseMartinez/status/1775602813357150298
I can't believe an ex-WC would be this immature
Interesting
Truly the smallest man in chess
Please make sure he stays banned.
Just play on another account bruv
Wait. What did Kramnik do this time? Did he cheat? Genuine question. By the looks of it, Kramnik has really lost his marbles.
What a buffoon
How long until Kramnik accuses Magnus of cheating
now I'm really wondering if he was actually cheating against Topalov..
Really, what happened to this man? He used to be such a legend, such a respected and admirable man. He was the one to defeat Kasparov, he was the Iceman. He was so well regarded and now he is just trash. His legacy, his reputation, his career and all, just wasted. Thrown into oblivion, mockery and shame. Damn dude, the guy has gone from king to clown. I would feel sorry for him but he is not making it easy. I don’t feel sorry for him.
Could a grown man cry any more?
The accuser becomes the accused 😂
I was already suprised , because he didnt play Xheating Tuesdays yesterday.
April fool's?
Chesscom were looking for a reason to suspend him after all the drama I guess lol
Yeah, they were waiting for a mistake and now Kramnik made one.
Not sure they even minded that much. Kramnik calling it 'cheating tuesday' is kind of bad. On the other hand noone took him seriously anymore. Whether or not they waited for it: This was just a clear breaking of the rules. It is Kramniks sole responsibility. He fucked up and now he can't even admit it.
Like when an outspoken homophobic person is revealed to be gay. Kramnik accusing everyone of cheating cause he is a secret cheater.