Kramnik Hates Chess.com

Everyone has a smartphone except for kids and elderly. I understand in some regions this might be rare but then there's no internet and PC availability.

also a player must not be allowed to play rated games until ID video call was made with player showing his ID, answering questions

the team must run his face through face detection software to find doubles

Virtual SIM still will cost you money. Besides we can enforce real SIMs only and require a bill from your mobile service provider that states your name, cell number and address. Listen, everyone must be identified for anti-cheating purposes and if it's really about lack of smartphone, other means should be used, but still there must be an identification. A video call must happen and a person must explain why they have no smartphone. A cheater must know that this is his only chance, next time they will see that it's him again. To fight disguise and fake ID they would run voice profiling etc. If no video call is possible, then good bye, this is not for you or you can play but not in rated games. Because we respect our players and can't let random unidentified accounts (potentially bots) to interfere with them anyhow. Like you can't make a Whatsapp account without a cell number, that's not a discrimination.

Also randomly ID calls must repeat upon login. Staff cannot check everyone everytime but randomly - yes. You want to login but oops - please accept identifying video call through our mobile app, staff member will compare your face to the previously stored pictures of you. Refuse to accept call - suspend from playing rated games until you schedule and pass that call again.

You will have to wait. This is for your online safety. Besides, after the ban, chesskid will be full of talented kids like you, so it wouldn't be a problem to find an opponent. But I recommend bots. Bob-monkey is always ready to challenge you and it's making very funny noises.

Do not worry about their finances, paying members have smartphones and they are PAYING therefore likely can afford a webcam or two. 100 million registered doesn't mean those 100 million are still active. Many of them have simply left the Earth. There are only 3 million paying members if that's not a lie of course. Payment should be mandatory if you wish to participate in rated games. FIDE did that with Arena. Can't pay - enjoy unrated-only play.

By enforcing anti-cheating measures chess.com will only gain reputation of a clean serious chess platform. And then one will wish to go to lichess, to that free-as-in-freedom ugly swamp infested with cheaters and bots.

I have calculated that to ID 3 million members you will need roughly 1000 people working 1 month. Non-paying members can continue playing unrated.

From subscriptions only, chess.com can easily cover monthly salary of 10 thousand such workers. Easy math: your monthly subscription is much greater than 5 minute or less work to verify your identity.

As for fair play and re-identification calls, they would be randomized. For a cheater it is enough to know that some day maybe not this month maybe next but he will receive this call and he wouldn't be able to refuse. And of course the better the performance the more chances player would be selected for that call.

This is all doable from every perspective: time, finances, organizational etc

I'm not bad at chess. Finances would be ok, just calculate and you will see.

And this is just to set things up, then you don't get too much new registrations of paying members. Would be very easy to handle even with less workers. And whenever there's no new users to ID, you just ping old users to re-ID and suspend if they refuse.

basketstorm has proved himself a troll...DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!!

Himself? What's wrong with you?

A professor of statistics analyzed Hikaru's record and concluded that his amazing streak, which Kramnik said is proof of cheating, fell within statistical expectations. Like he always does, no matter how expert the person contradicting him, Kramnik dismissively said the professor was wrong.

There's an old saying. You can't win an argument with an ignorant man.

Shame on you. Stop lying. Kramnik never said that the streak was "a proof of cheating".

That's true, he never says it outright, he just makes sure we all know what he means. He said Hikaru cheats every which way other than using the words. It's called insinuation, and in his case it's blatant. Shame on you for leaning on a technicality so you can say someone is lying. It's intellectually dishonest.

Read carefully:

And now tell how is it different from chess.com saying in their report "we discuss what we believe are apparent anomalies in Hans’ rise in OTB rating"?

All Kramnik is asking for is an examination and public answers. This is completely normal.

All Kramnik's statements were consistent and he repeats every time that this is not an accusation. No one was saying that Hikaru is cheating except for silly youtubers who titled their videos with something like "Kramnik said Hikaru is CHEATING".

Kramnik is going about the issue of cheating in a completely wrong way. He's just implying that any titled player who happens to be on a good week a cheater, which causes negative energy in the community. Kramnik needs to be stopped to get rid of the negative stigma in the community.

Cheating is a problem in online chess, but the cure is worse than the illness in this case. Have you noticed you many people have been fighting or accusing people of cheating since Kramnik basically accused Hikaru of cheating? Kramnik is not contributing any benefits to the chess community. He needs to either stop or be stopped.

What? He is not trying to prove, he is just asking questions. Reasonable questions, because there's some very interesting data, you can't deny that. It's like denying reality just because you like Hikaru or idk

Along with high susceptibility to confirmation bias, Kramnik clearly knows little to nothing of critical thinking principles. If he did, he'd accept uncertainty, critically examine his own ideas, and give others the benefit of the doubt. Instead he has the overconfidence and lack of self-awareness typical of Dunning-Kruger syndrome. He's also remorseless and only concerned with maintaining his convictions, despite the harm he does. Not much to admire.