Good story.
It’s sad that an old man in Indonesia that plays chess well was initially harassed by a chess master.
Ultimately it will probably benefit both of them receiving the attention.
Whatever the truth is, I didn’t get that out of the article. He reported him, but it seems the website involved still believes he was cheating.
Classic and typical judgment of “class”.
And the conclusion:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/most-watched-chess-stream-in-history-dewa-kipas
A friendly chess match held on Monday in Indonesia, which was streamed on YouTube, attracted a record-shattering number of over a million concurrent viewers. The match was played between IM Irene Sukandar and Dadang Subur, an amateur player who had been accused of cheating in early March by IM Levy Rozman on Twitch.
As it turned out, Subur could not repeat the high level of play as he had shown online. He lost 3-0 to Sukandar, making fairly basic mistakes.
Cool to see they had that match, I thought it would never happen.
Yeah I guessed he was cheating but too much loss of face all round to admit it.
Sometimes people get caught in a lie and it’s really hard to get out of it.