new article re emails between GM Maxim Dlugy and chess.com

I just saw an article that purports to reveal email correspondence between Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy and chess . com.
Is there any reason to think the email correspondence is not authentic?
www.vice.com/en/article/z34qz8/chess-grandmaster-maxim-dlugy-admitted-to-cheating-on-chesscom-emails-show

I don't know how the article's author obtained the emails, which evidently contain a few redactions. If this correspondence is authentic, it suggests to me that chess . com makes an effort to help those who have cheated "come clean" and be able to rejoin the chess world.

Does anyone have any information about whether this article is accurate?

"We have written confessions from many of the players we've closed, including from some inside the top 100 in the world."

www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating

i wonder how they got the emails. sure puts Dlugy in a bad light if true.

So Chess . con collects private data on every user to publish it, whenever they need to discredit someone.
What a disgusting website.

To: new-player_123:
We don't yet have any information about how the email correspondence was obtained.
It's not fair at this point to accuse chess . com of the "disgusting" practice of collecting "private data" in order to "discredit" people the website seeks to harm.
If you have information (actual evidence) about malicious behavior by chess . com, please feel free share it. But I think we all have had more than enough of the unsupported slinging of accusations.
We will probably find out more, maybe soon.

@new_player_123 said in #4:
> So Chess . con collects private data on every user to publish it, whenever they need to discredit someone.
> What a disgusting website.

I am also astounded. It is backhanded. What about Naroditsky chat log with Firouja during the titled Tuesday, where he supposedly asked Firouja to throw their game?

I don't agree with what Dlugy did, if the email is authentic, it's clear that chess.con are co-ordinating a particularly sinister campaign here, and I it's terrible for chess.

They could have just shown their analysis of Hans' public over the boardgames without any legal recourse. So they are clutching at straws in the hope there are enough stupid people to fall for it.

I'm not sure how you are reaching the conclusion that "a particularly sinister campaign" is being coordinated here by chess .com.
As I read the correspondence (assuming it's what it purports to be), the exchange of email messages between chess . com and Maxim Dlugy indicates that chess .com is taking pains to be respectful of chess players who have been caught cheating, and the website seems fully open to (even hopeful for) second chances and rehabilitation---provided the players who have cheated actually come clean.
I don't have any inside knowledge, but that's how it appears to me.

.@jadubovic said in #7:
> I'm not sure how you are reaching the conclusion that "a particularly sinister campaign" is being coordinated here by chess .com.
> As I read the correspondence (assuming it's what it purports to be), the exchange of email messages between chess . com and Maxim Dlugy indicates that chess .com is taking pains to be respectful of chess players who have been caught cheating, and the website seems fully open to (even hopeful for) second chances and rehabilitation---provided the players who have cheated actually come clean.
> I don't have any inside knowledge, but that's how it appears to me.

It has been released subsequent to Magnus indirectly claiming that Dlugy was Hans Niemanns "mentor" in cheating

@jadubovic said in #5:
> To: new-player_123:
> We don't yet have any information about how the email correspondence was obtained.
> It's not fair at this point to accuse chess . com of the "disgusting" practice of collecting "private data" in order to "discredit" people the website seeks to harm.
> If you have information (actual evidence) about malicious behavior by chess . com, please feel free share it. But I think we all have had more than enough of the unsupported slinging of accusations.
> We will probably find out more, maybe soon.

It says in the article it was provided by chesscom.

We don't know who "released" the information, or why.
Let's not assume the worst motivations on the part of other people.
Even if you disagree with me about something, I respect your humanity and hope you will respect mine.
Maybe your suspicions will turn out to be warranted, but for now I think we need to reserve judgment.

When Magnus Carlsen mentioned the name Maxim Dlugy several days ago, the world champion was excoriated by some for defaming GM Maxim Dlugy and there were posts to the lichess forum urging Dlugy to bring a defamation lawsuit against Carlsen for insinuating that Dlugy had cheated. If the email correspondence is correct, such a defamation suit against Carlsen would almost surely result in defeat.