Chess bans a former world champion for a cheating witch-hunt built on homemade statistics (fide.com)
FIDE's ethics commission ruled Kramnik responsible for cyberbullying, psychological abuse and unjustified public cheating accusations against grandmasters including David Navara and the late Daniel Naroditsky. Sanction: a two-year worldwide ban with the final year suspended, plus a year of community service.
The thread supplies what the terse ruling omits: Kramnik invented pseudo-statistical 'detection' methods convincing to laymen but hollow mathematically — and many argue the punishment is far too small for the harm.
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