Personal Statement of Elisabeth Pähtz

Mods, sorry if posting this is against any rules. Feel free to move, close, delete, whatever. I think it is important for the community though.

www.chess-international.com/?p=25785

One of my team members has logged into my lichess account (without my knowledge and just wanting to help me) and has lost 1421 games.

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully this statement resolves any further potential problems. Edit: after looking further into it. Yikes

The statement circumvents what happened during the tournament. Kind of fishy altogether.

I don't like her anyway because she spends time with TheBigKek

Hmm - strange.
I really do hope she has proofs convincing FIDE and DSB.

What her statement says and what this article says perlenvombodensee.de/2020/08/09/paehtz-vs-lichess/ is confusing me ..

:/

The tweets about her immediately after the tournament is unavailable
where is the video on her channel which this article mentions

"Elisabeth Pähtz said in the comments on her YouTube video that she wanted to contest the Lichess decision. Whatever the outcome, the case could be a first test of the DSB's soon to be installed code of honor for its squad players. A voluntary commitment to adhere to the principle of fair play also in online chess will most likely be part of this code."

"All Arabs use engines," read Aghiad Mero from Bahrain in the chat after he had beaten Pähtz in three-minute lightning. Said chess friend has earned a Lichess Blitz rating of 2350. His rating according to his profile: 1534. He documented the game and its chat on his YouTube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bT_9d91m6g

twitter.com/iamibrahimwardi/status/1292209234524897283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw (Unavilable tweet)

Most of the tweets critical to her are now removed

and videos are privated (e.x www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uPZ0nVKICM)

Though she is keeping the evidence under lock-and-key for legal reasons, I currently see no reason not to believe her. I think this news/announcement deserves to be spread as quickly as possible, even if only to raise awareness. Thanks for sharing this, @Sarg0n.

@AsadsWorld according to Fide the rating of Aghiad Mero indeed is a meagre 1534. And a player in that league seldom performs constantly like elo 2200 and certainly not at fast timecontrolls. Leaves some questions about LiChess capability of hauling in the cheats.