Open post to GM Vladimir Kramnik (Cold war)
GM Vladimir Kramnik!
I have none intention to go slow on you, being overly polite. Etiquette has no place here. It is interesting how you choose to go for a swim, into a wild ravishing ocean to investigate cheaters. I may understand your intention but you have zero expierence in doing such work. When publishing videos where you talk about streamer setups, how someone interacts with their 'fanbase' - you should have some understanding of how it works. You have apperently none!
OBS, which is a software you use to be able stream, most of us use it, there are others but they are not that commonly used. Everything gets mirrored, you can manipulate that mirror effect etcetera. If you want to know more about a streamer setup, reach out to me and I will teach you the basics before we move on to an intermediate level. Times change and some streamers interrelate with their audience in a different manner than you're used to, they even try to teach morons like myself to understand the game - therefor speedruns, analysing games, explaining rights and wrongs, puzzles and more. You may dislike that but trying to move with time is a great way of expanding your understanding of the above. Not saying that every progress is the best. Don't live in the past, visit, but please return to base!
Your explanations are more than dumb - it's below ameteur skill level. Your are an X world champion and your knowledge about the game of chess are above most of us - but that's it.
It's so sad to see you use your voice to dig a grave - for yourself. I'm concerned about your mental state, it's obsessive and it shows ...
... slowing down a video on a youtube and say (Paraphrasing): - See! It's obvious!
That's just plain stupid. Wake the fuck up! Explanations for what you see are so many but you choose to blindly follow the only angle that somehow would justify your claims.
I also think, from a subjective perspective, that you do not like chess.com because it's commercial. It's a circus sometimes (I agree on that) and all that comes with it. Of course, there will be cheating on an online platform providing games like chess, counter strike or almost any game for that matter. It's an issue for sure. Something has to be done and I do not hold those answers. Chess.com are trying, lichess.org are trying and even independent experts are trying. You are neither of those even though your passion for the game comes from the right place.
Offering to play a cash game where both participants put 50.000 dollars on the table to uncover cheating is insane. Makes zero sense. Proves nothing. Says nothing. Contains no content. It's strange to say the least.
You are hurting chess, as a game, polluting it with allegations - direct and indirect ones. It's dishonest, under the belt and again - plain stupid.
This is a post written on the fly and I will dig further into it.
I wish you the best, health and happiness.
Yours "JackieTheSwede"
