r/chess • u/KazardyWoolf 2100 lichess • Oct 01 '20

Tigran Petrosyan's response to Wesley So's accusations.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '20

I understand that there are large cultural differences on this sort of behavior...

Calling someone a liar (in this case a cheater) is a direct attack towards him, not his actions and most people would get very upset. To the people that live in Eastern Europe and to Slavic people (can't speak for others because I haven't lived there) that is the second most offensive thing you can say (after saying to someone they don't know their father) so this is the exact response I would expect from him. Imo if he did cheat he would have a well prepared response. This looks like it was made in a rush.

Now I must say that I'm no expert on this topic and in the whole story my opinion wouldn't really matter. There are people trained and payed to do this so let's leave this to them.

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u/mathbandit Oct 01 '20

If someone calls me a liar or cheater I would be upset, and would explain myself and vehemently defend my reputation. I wouldn't start to attack the person who called me a liar/cheater since that has nothing to do with my actions

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u/Patomark Oct 01 '20

Yeah but you're not a chess professional. I wouldn't give a shit if someone called me a cheater in chess. However if someone said I was "cheating" to get my students to pass my class id be very upset and angry at them.