GM Denis Kadric statement on the alleged cheating case
GM Denis Kadric issued a statement to Chessdom regarding the recent case of alleged cheating online. Kadric says, “I have a my statement prepared the last 3 days. I was waiting for Chess.com to reply to my email before i publish it. They posted the case before me because I said I will go public with this.”
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Statement by Denis Kadric aka Kiborg95
I am GM Denis Kadric, and the Chess.com Fair Play team decided to ban my main account, Kiborg95 (that I have had for 15 years), for alleged cheating.
Before I even start, I had this text prepared 3 days ago since they banned me, but I was waiting for them to reply to me last email, which they never did, because I said I would go public with this. Of course, they posted it before me to make me look even more bad. You are indeed disgusting human trash. I had to stop from my car drive to Austria because I started receiving hundreds of texts. So I will publish it now.
This is the second time they are accusing and banning me for ‘cheating’ so I will have to first go over the first time they ‘caught me’. January 2018, they banned my account, TheFlaminGM, at that time, after I made 4.5/6 in Titled Tuesday. I will share with you these games because I want everyone to see for what I got banned the first time.
Game 1: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527248392?username=theflamingm Dragon variation I played 1000+ times in online games and classical ones. Finished game with 3 minutes on the clock (Because when I use engine, I am insanely fast with it).
Game 2: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527273669?username=theflamingm This is the only game from these 6 where I could understand some confussion. I played against my good friend from college, Dani Raznikov. We played the line Nh6 against G3 KID. That’s a variation that I can proudly say, I think I invented it, or at least played it in classical games on high level, only me, no one else in the world. Dani and me already PLAYED THIS LINE 2 times in classical games in the US before this game happened(he actually beat me with this h4 idea in one of those 2 classical games). Qd7 is the only move that looks weird, but it’s the only move in 2-3 different versions of this line, which believe it or not I analyzed (SHOCKER) as I played this line in at least 5 classical games against other GMs. Here is my main line where you have to play Qd7: 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.g3 Nh6 6.h4! – at the time and after my classical game against Dani I thought it’s the most critical for white-Nf6 7.e4 Nhg4 8.Be2 Nh5(I actually played Qd7 immediately in the game because I couldn’t remember when to play Qd7, also my Qd7 is not the best because of some crazy engine move a4 with Ra3) 9.0-0 0-0 10. And now basically whatever white plays I have to play Qd7 to protect my knight to go next e5 or f5). Once again, I think I am the founder of this variation, because analyzing positions that are not good according to engine is something that I love. Moves like Qd7 is something that you remember once you analyze it, even though I played it at the wrong time. Also,my opponent played all the best moves, DID HE ALSO CHEAT??? After that, I make many bad moves, and so does he. Finished the game with 1 minute on the clock.
Game 3: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527301769?username=theflamingm Lost in this variation in a classical game in the US against Ynojosa Felix from Venezuela about 3-4 months prior to this game. Also whoever knows me, knows that I played Semi-KID variations my whole life and with my move order that started with 1…d6 and later on Nd7 before e5 I cannot avoid this line with Be3 and h3. I remembered that the idea is Nb6 with c6 d5(because white should be castling long after playing h3 and me taking on d4), but I didn’t remember when. Nb6 is actually a bad move-the move that I played (I’ve spent some time in the game for Nb6, after that I blitzed out everything). I should start with Re8. My opponent plays a bad move, Be2, and after that everything is completely straightforward. Any KID player will agree with that. Finished the game with 2:13 on my clock (engine use slows me down after some time seems like).
Game 4: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527327583?username=theflamingm Very simple Italian game. All of my moves are just logical. My opponent just didn’t play good. 1 minute left
Game 5: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527354050?username=theflamingm All of my moves are just logical in the opening and middlegame, and I messed up many times in the game; was winning made a draw only. If you check my classical games, you will se this variation played many times and also had really similar games with this idea of Qe7 with next Nd4.(Nemeth-Kadric 2018). Both of us had about 30 seconds at the end of the game.
Game 6: https://www.chess.com/game/live/2527376734?username=theflamingm Got completely destroyed by Andreikin, I played badly and he played good. I didn’t accuse him of cheating tho.
After this game I got kicked out of the tournament and my account got closed. Received email from chess.com that I got banned for cheating. I wrote back that I didn’t cheat; they wrote that I cheated, but because it’s my first time, I can admit it, say that I am sorry, and they will give me another chance. I wrote back,’Sorry that I played like an engine. Can I get my account back?’, completely expecting another round of emailing, but they figured out that I admitted it, and they gave me ‘another’ chance. I got my ‘new chance’ very soon after the ban(the same day). Here I have to mention that I would share a screenshot of those emails but I cannot find the email because it seems that my account TheFlaminGM was registered on a different email and I don’t remember which email it is(chess.com allows one account per email and I had Kiborg95 since 2010 and I use only 1 email my whole life) After that, it seems like I played 6 years without cheating, but then September 2024 came.
The 27th of September 2024 I receive an email that my account has violated the Fair Play policy and that because it’s my second offense, I will get perma banned from their site and that I cannot make another account under my name. Of course I wrote back and asked for a Zoom call, because, to be honest, I thought this was about me getting reported and blocked by players often for typing in chat some trashtalk nonsense (I just love doing it, I cannot stop.). No one answered my emails for 4-5 days where I wrote that I would stop typing in chat and not perma ban me for that. Finally, I receive an email to schedule a call with them. I did it the same day. In the call, he (it doesn’t matter who) tells me that it’s not about chat but them being sure I cheated in some of my games in 2024 online. He said it’s not in prize tournaments but in some regular games I played on my account. I asked which games or when, and he said that they cannot disclose that because that destroys the point of their work(???? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN????) From the call, I think he was talking about some games from the beginning of the year, but I am not sure about that. He told me that he knows that this is hard for me, but I can write an appeal for them to reconsider. Of course I didn’t write an appeal because they thought that I cheated and me knowing that I didn’t will not change.
My biggest question is, How is it legal, ethical or normal to do that? You accuse a GM of cheating, and you are not able to tell him when he cheated—in which games? If you are 100% sure that I cheated, why not share the games with me?
Last year I finished 3rd in European Blitz. My last World Blitz Championship, I was on top boards after the first part of the tournament (after that, 3 losses and mental collapse). A month ago, I finished 5th in one of the Titled Tuesdays. In the recent Olympiad, I had basically perfect games against Keymer Vincent and Yilmaz Mustafa. All of these things show that I know to play sometimes good, if not Magnus perfect chess, even though I dropped my classical rating this year by 40-50 points.
One more thing I have to mention is that on Kiborg95 I only played 1…d6 as black and as white all the lines that I played in my classical chess for the past 6-8 years (maybe even longer). So I definitely know some stuff much better and deeper when it comes to openings and middlegame ideas. In my classical chess, I basically changed my repertoire the past year because I started working on chess much more than I was used to. This allowed me to play openings I actually know on my Kiborg95 account. You can also check my Kiborg95 account that I didn’t play many Titled Tuesdays or games on that account at all before, end of 2023 and 2024, because I always used to play the same stuff in classical and online games and I didn’t want to risk someone out preparing my in classical games because of my online games. Before 2024 I mostly played on Lichess where I have 2 unverified accounts that don’t even have my name on it, they are anonymous. Guess who still has those accounts without getting a ban?
The other thing is, I am playing under my real name; everyone knows me under the account Kiborg95. I have many students from chess.com. I have another hidden account that is registered by chess.com as mine and is not banned (SHOCK—even there I played so many games and no ban, with same rating like on Kiborg95). WHY WOULD I EVER EVEN THINK ABOUT CHEATING IN SOME REGULAR GAMES ON MY LIFELONG ACCOUNT? Chess.com has to change their policy when it comes to accusing people and then not being able to back it up with evidence. It doesn’t make sense, nor is it fair. I don’t believe that I will get my account back(they don’t really care about anonymous GMs like me), but that doesn’t even matter. What matters to me is my reputation as a chess professional, not some chess.com prized tournaments(in my 15 years of playing on chess.com, I made $100). That’s the reason why I wrote this text. No billionaire company will ruin the good name of Denis Kadric without me fighting back. All I can say in the end is, I will continue to have a good sleep at night, while I am not so sure about you.
Signed: GM Denis Kadric