Kramnik accuses Chessbase India | Drama at the Olympiad

Vladimir Kramnik raises issue with Chessbase India keeping phones in the playing hall to record games. Sagar Shah responds and clears the air. But drama is afoot at 45th Chess Olympiad 2024.

[sodatta]

Old vlad has become so salty over the years that he can literally make millions selling salt. Go for it vlad.

[nabangshusinha]

Can someone explain why chessbase india suddenly became the Indian team? If an Indian journalist does something you don't like, you can accuse the Indian team? Should I start accusing Mr. Kramnik for what other Russians are doing?

[vinayparadkar]

Kramnik not able to digest that India is @ rank 1. Give him some ENO.

[revolutionarythinker]

he was 2800+ elo in chess, . now ZERO elo in commonsense 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Striker-xxcu]

Kramnik forgot he has 2 verified cheaters (yakuboyev and sindarov) in his team? 😂😂😂

[pramodkakoriya]

Sagar explained everything. If they are allowed by fair play team, blame them

[Adarsh-vdjw]

Chessbase India didn't do anything wrong, they were authorised by the fide officials before installing the phones as cameras

[davidc]

There's an old saying "Even paranoids have enemies".

[priyangshu]

Those devices are fide approved. Chessbase cleared that the phones were on airplane mode and had no sims.

[anmolverma]

In this way, Cameras should also be banned because any communication device can be planted inside Camera.

[youarenotthisbody]

Maybe he's not aware of the current state of technology. Even cameras could be connected to wifi and be used to transmit moves. 😅

[LDubz]

Sour old man. The young Indian stars are the up and coming Kings of chess.

[swanand]

Already chess has such limited viewership... If we curtail this also how will chess fans enjoy the games..

[dnameisbondjamesbond]

Some people cannot handle the fact that they have lost relevance.

[laalBaadshahs]

irst of all Someone should explain to Mr. Kramnik that Chessbase india is there as a media firm and is not related to team India any way . Secondly CBI has all approvals for the camera to be in there, and even if the mobile phones have communication capabilities how would it interact with the player if the players themselves don't have anything on them . Also given technology is so advanced how can he be so sure that the cameras dont have transmission capabilities. even my camera has a bluetooth and wifi feature on it .

[pankajkumaryadav]

Wow! is kramnik coming to playing hall for first time or what ? Its round 9, is he not seen any mobile phone till now? Its looks like a tactic to me to distract players!! Apparently it worked Indian faltered first time in tournament

[machineFa]

Kramnik must stick to chess and stop talking kak as he usually does.

[divyanshukumar]

Kramnik can see ghosts.... I'm pretty sure.

[sidenews]

Typical distracting tactics. Shame on kramnic

[wiseguyknowsall]

For any sport to be successful, spectators are important. Chessbase India is doing a great job & they need videos.