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Does Magnus Carlsen cheat when he starts with a new account? (2500?) :)

Does Magnus Carlsen cheat when he starts with a new account? (2500?)
Does anyone generally cheat when he loses the first game in the tournament, without giving his best from the start?

When do you call something cheating, manipulation or falsification?

I noticed that in lower tournaments where I play (U2000 an lower) often the best places always lost the first game. My thoughts: If you do that, then you are paired with weaker players and easily win some games quickly until you are back on your own playing strength.

I looked closely at some of these first games, it was very often noticed that the moves are pulled extremely fast and very careless sometimes even clear mistakes are made like playing the first time.
Some times it was not even trying to prevent obviously Mate in two, in other games it was simply maneuvered quick into a absolute bad position and then resign. In some games, this approach of losing oneself is so clear that you have to ask yourself if that is not clearly cheating by manipulating the pairing system.

A very difficult question, because actually you can not blame anyone for having to play at his level in the tournament ore play good at all.
But if, for example, a 1800s player plays his first game like a 1000 and then clearly wins the tournament, then that makes you a little bit pensive.

I'm new here and clearly you have to be very careful when naming someone a cheater, but theoretically this manipulative practice is you are cheating because you knowingly get an advantage at startup.
This is just a pattern that I noticed already after 2 months.

I also thought about whether Carlsen as World Champion and best participant in the Titletd Arena 9 under a new account with 2500? starts and is thus paired in the initial phase against many weaker players, is not also something dishonest?
Of course this is very entertaining, if nobody knows as who he is playing!

(He too often loses the first game, perhaps as proof that he too is human and will not be banished as an engine. :)

In contrast, for example, strong players like GM Rebecca Harris, GM penguingim1 or GM Zhigalko_Sergei have to compete against the best players from the beginning, while a new account such as the world champion under the last new name Dr.Nykterstein starts in 66th place and at least the first games against actually much weaker player starts. In the end, as you know, not the direct matches, but simply the number of games won counts.

So nobody misunderstands me: I have huge respect for Carlsen, all the other titlet players and in general in front of everyone whether he plays better or weaker than me or don’t play at all.
Also, I am sure that we all love Carlsen, also for having played these incredibly funny and weak openings at the last Titled Arena and entertaining all of us and showed again how incredible skilled he is.
I also do not say that these practices are cheating, if they had happened deliberately and with the idea of gaining an advantage.
I'm just wondering if that does not significantly falsify the system and if there is sometimes calculated intention behind it.

I just want to stimulate the thought process, that even without clear cheating, so a tournament-system can be influenced. It is also clear that there will never be a perfect system, even though Lichess comes incredibly close to the perfect level. The only unchangeable variable remains humanity.

Please forgive me for using some of our idols as an example, but if I were just writing about U2000 players, it certainly would not get much attention. Thus, I cheat too, or at least manipulate. :)
Please don’t give me shit because this!

Thank you to all respectful honest players and all honest people all over the planet. Do not believe in the dark side of the force. :)

Best regards, Dimitri
"I noticed that in lower tournaments where I play (U2000 an lower) often the best places always lost the first game. My thoughts: If you do that, then you are paired with weaker players and easily win some games quickly until you are back on your own playing strength"
Interesting
I had not noticed that, but I had noticed that in open rapid tournaments, sometimes a person with a rating of 1600 could be in second place and the average rating of their opponents would be hundreds of points lower than the 2100 person in 1st place

1 way of gaming the system I read about is to pause your participation in the tournament if you can tell that some highly rated players are just about to finish their games: a guy openly admitted he did it, he thinks it is smart tournament tactics

I liked that you used the word "pensive", you don't see that word every day

Another way to game the system is to berserk every game: with easy victories against those with much lower ratings and playing very fast and not caring about the result against people with equal or higher ratings

Another possibility (although I'm not sure this is gaming the system) is to play ultra-aggressive, ultra-risky openings in tournaments (it wouldn't really matter how dubious they were): so that you would either win quickly or lose quickly

1 thing about Carlsen starting new accounts, is that because he is well known it may cause problems for him if it was known beforehand that it was his account (people hassling celebrities)
A solution to this is to let him start as many accounts as possible, but don't put his initial rating for new accounts at 1500, give his new accounts the starting rating that is believed to be as close to the truth as possible
Kalch - thank you for your reference.

I am Swiss myself and I was not aware that this is the Swiss system. But so my criticism is almost self-criticism, which I think is the most honest way. :)

I think this part of your wikipedia link is very interesting:

„In Swiss system tournaments, the later rounds have a much greater bearing on the final results than the earlier rounds. In fact, it can even be an advantage to have a poor start to a Swiss system tournament because the player is then more likely to be paired against weaker opposition. Chess players colloquially refer to this as a “Swiss Gambit”.“

…Although I'm Swiss I do not play the Swiss Gambit.

If it’s serious I would rather prefer the honorable philosophy of the fighters.
Live every moment, every breath, every punch and every (chess-)move honest and maximally, no difference who, when and where.
“Samurai Gambit” :)

But hey! We only play!

I laugh when I blunder and I'm happy even if I lose, as long as the game was good.

And any cheater might beat you, but he's cheating on himself.

... Everyone wants to become better themselves. And when we measure each other, we only use each other as a mirror for ourselves to see if we have evolved...

Yes but then again Magnus was sober this time and probably felt the moral obligation to inform his opponents about the change in playing streght due to the lack of consumed corona.
Carlsen is the best. Let Him be creative, have fun, and make mistakes. Clearly His style is what works for Chess since the NPC engine robot brains can not compete
I generally agree with OP, but in Magnus' case the positives outweigh the infinitesimal rating distortion within the tournament roster. This guy is hilarious and with his actions he promotes the site as a place to have fun at.

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