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Chess.com banned Jobava without warning
19 Feb 2023
After Baadur Jobava ranted about alleged cheating during the Airthings Masters qualifier on stream, Chess.com banned him for a year from all prize money events and marked him as a racist and sexist. The platform never replied to our question if the trashtalking Georgian for whom English is only his third language had been warned. Now Jobava published an apology for his misplaced words and states that he was neither warned nor confronted, protesting against stating an example on him when the real problem is cheating. He had left Lichess earlier when he felt that the platform allowed alleged cheaters to overtake him.