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Is it possible that Carlsen himself is cheating, and the reason he's angry is because he's cheating, and still gets beat, so the other guy MUST be cheating?


It's not impossible, technically. But it would contradict more than a decade of behavior and performance along with having no circumstantial or hard evidence to back it up.


That’s a good point, and I agree, I was just throwing out this weird devils advocate argument that came to me. I think about cycling, and other events in sports where drugs are involved. People claim they are not on drugs, they go on a crusade against the cheaters, only to be found later to be cheaters themselves.




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