Okay I know this sounds pretty extreme, but hear me out.

Let's start by looking at the prevailing viewpoint on this incident. So there was this competition where Armenian GM Tigran Petrosian performed really well and beat a lot of strong players, and Wesley So, one of the players whom he beat accused him of cheating on the chess.com comments section for the news article. Petrosian responded with his now-infamous copypasta. Later chess.com found him guilty and banned him from their site. This is what everyone thinks happened. This is what chess.com would like you to believe what has happened. They want everyone to blindly accept this and not ask questions or think critically. And alas most of you sheeple ate it all up.

But, me being the intellectual 161660 chess player that I am, have investigated this incident and after going down a deep rabbit hole, I can safely say that I have cracked the case.

Let's look at Petrosian’s actual motivation for cheating. Here is the thing, there is none. The difference in price money between 1st and second place for each team was only 10000 dollars. Now that might seem like a lot, but after it gets divided between the entire team, their managers etc. You are pretty much looking at 1-2 thousand dollars. Barely worth the risk. Not to mention, he cheated in the stupidest way possible, by just having an engine near him which he kept glancing at.

Now let's look at Wesley So. Everyone likes him apparently. He is really humble during interviews and always respects his opponents. Does he seem like the guy who would make accusations in a public forum instead of reporting it to the organisers privately? I think not.

Now let's look at chess.com. Clearly, a website that just wants to make money and charges you for puzzles and game analysis. They behaved in a really dumb way by not having second cams or proctoring for these finals.

So something here clearly doesn’t add up. Why did all three of these parties behave in such an unrealistic way in this situation? I believe I know why.

Think about the most sensational part of this whole incident. The thing that elevates this incident to a near-legendary status above all other cheating scandals. That’s right, it's the “Pipi in your pampers” copypasta. This has been shared widely on social media. Youtubers made tons of videos on this topic, while this subreddit has even embraced it as one of its few running memes.

So much exposure across so many platforms in the entire chess community. And whom does this benefit? That’s right, the Pampers company. They have generated a level of brand recognition that no amount of advertising could have done. This is a marketing technique that works so covertly, yet so effectively. Remember that time when you talked about this incident to your friends at the bar and library? You were indirectly promoting Pampers and their products. They have orchestrated the most brilliant corporate marketing ploy that humanity has witnessed. We have been fooled, brainwashed into thinking that the cheating incident was just a funny random thing, and not the pre-arranged farce with paid actors that it really is.

So I request you, dear r/anarchychess to stop the insidious acceptance of the corporate agenda of Pampers and open your eyes to the truth.