Robot2600 posted... Okay it's unclear to a lot of people in this topic that aren't avid chess players with 1000+ games.
"Playing too well" is absolutely a thing, and there are books of statistics and computer analysis that explain all of this. It starts with understanding chess engines and it ends with detailed essays explaining how someone cheated but it boils down to this:
it's actually extremely easy to see if its a human or AI playing in many cases. You have the idea that chess engines are "just a little bit better" but it's more like they are 1000x better than any human could ever be and it's obvious to everyone in the chess world.
It's the equivalent of say, someone claiming they are playing Starcraft 2, but the "video" shows them clicking in an obviously Tool-Assissted speerun way. Like they start clicking 200 times a second and maintain that speed of click for 20 minutes, then claim that they are "just really fast."
It's literally like that.
You are right to be skeptical of Magnus resigning like this, but here is the thing: he's fucking right, and if you know about the guy you know he wouldn't do this without being sure. Magnus is cool as fuck, he's one of the coolest chess players, most of them have their heads totally up their own ass, but he's not like that. He doesn't stream bullshit and try to sell you on clickbait shit games, like Hikaru Nakamura does, for example.
I 100% believe Magnus, but I would be willing to look at the AI analysis of the games in question to see if the supposed cheating games were in fact cheating.
if this were the case the story would be over by now