Q: Why don’t you want to play him?
A: He has cheated in the past and he might be cheating in the present.
Q: Which point is more important? Are you punishing him for past misdemeanours or do you have good reason to suspect he’s cheating now?
A: A bit of both.
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A: He has cheated in the past and he might be cheating in the present.
Q: Which point is more important? Are you punishing him for past misdemeanours or do you have good reason to suspect he’s cheating now?
A: A bit of both.
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Q: So the reason you think he might be cheating now is because he’s cheated in the past?
A: Yes
Q: Once a cheater, always a cheater?
A: I didn’t say that.
Q: Can you prove that he’s cheated in over the board play more recently?
A: It’s difficult to prove. But I do suspect.
A: Yes
Q: Once a cheater, always a cheater?
A: I didn’t say that.
Q: Can you prove that he’s cheated in over the board play more recently?
A: It’s difficult to prove. But I do suspect.
Q: Do you believe in the presumption of innocence?
A: Yes, but there is some indicative evidence here.
Q: Based on online games when he was 12 and 16?
A: Maybe more than that.
Q: Maybe?
A: I can’t say for sure.
A: Yes, but there is some indicative evidence here.
Q: Based on online games when he was 12 and 16?
A: Maybe more than that.
Q: Maybe?
A: I can’t say for sure.
Q: So you think he’s probably cheating in over the board play today, or is it just a possibility?
A: Somewhere between the two.
Q: And if he is, how is he doing it?
A: Everyone knows there are ways and means…
Q: So you don’t really know how?
A: No.
A: Somewhere between the two.
Q: And if he is, how is he doing it?
A: Everyone knows there are ways and means…
Q: So you don’t really know how?
A: No.
Q: So what you’re saying is that the knowledge that he has cheated in the past combined with the possibility that he has cheated in the present makes you feel uncomfortable about playing him?
A: Yes
Q: And is your discomfort more important than the presumption of innocence?
A: Yes
Q: And is your discomfort more important than the presumption of innocence?
A: I have the right to play whoever I like.
Q: Doesn’t he have the right to do the same? Won’t your actions undermine that?
A: Do you know who I am?
Q: Magnus Carlsen?
A: Right.
Q: Right?
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Q: Doesn’t he have the right to do the same? Won’t your actions undermine that?
A: Do you know who I am?
Q: Magnus Carlsen?
A: Right.
Q: Right?
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