One comment about the source (chess.com): it has a conflict of interest in this topic and has a clear bias in what it does and doesn't say. They omit that the cheater in question is a prominent member of their own chess platform, who has been scoring first-place in high-profile sitewide tournaments [0]. IMO the most interesting question here, which this source would prefer to elide over, is whether or not this over-the-board (meatspace) cheater has also been cheating for profit on the internet platforms—something that's technically much easier to do than in a professional, arbitrated tournament setting.
This is sort of an existential question for their business. Chess.com currently operates one of the two major online chess platforms. Their top public-image controversy, going back years, is whether or not their anti-computer cheating methods are effective and accurate. (This question has even made it into the Wall Street Journal [1]). Their system is a "security by obscurity" type, which both relies on cheaters not knowing how it works, and asks paying customers to trust the company's claims, without evidence, that their competitive platform is fair and fundamentally sound.
I think this revelation is going to (rightly) enflame that debate—though you won't read much about it on chess.com's own blog.
[0] https://www.chess.com/news/view/shevchenko-svane-win-titled-... ("GMs Kirill Shevchenko and Frederik Svane are your winners for the October 8 editions of Titled Tuesday")
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085649 ("Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times (wsj.com)" (2022))
This is sort of an existential question for their business. Chess.com currently operates one of the two major online chess platforms. Their top public-image controversy, going back years, is whether or not their anti-computer cheating methods are effective and accurate. (This question has even made it into the Wall Street Journal [1]). Their system is a "security by obscurity" type, which both relies on cheaters not knowing how it works, and asks paying customers to trust the company's claims, without evidence, that their competitive platform is fair and fundamentally sound.
I think this revelation is going to (rightly) enflame that debate—though you won't read much about it on chess.com's own blog.
[0] https://www.chess.com/news/view/shevchenko-svane-win-titled-... ("GMs Kirill Shevchenko and Frederik Svane are your winners for the October 8 editions of Titled Tuesday")
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085649 ("Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times (wsj.com)" (2022))