If he's 2400, he can still analyze. This leads me to believe that the dude is just trolling. IDK. I haven't watched all his interviews, but he seems like a troll.
None of us know for sure and it’s all speculation at this point. He could be trolling. He could be cheating. At some level he lied in his apology interview. He has not acknowledged the statement chess.com made in which they accused him of lying and cheating more often and more recently than he admitted. There’s just a lot of suspicion and sometimes where there’s smoke there is fire. My guess is he is a strong grandmaster that desperately wanted to be a super gm and took some shortcuts to get there.
To do the second, you need to still be extremely good at chess. Way beyond the level required to do any type of analysis.
"Perhaps the analysis was whack exactly because he wasn’t thinking and calculating deeply in these critical positions as magnus suggests in his statement."
You'd still need to calculate, if you're "just cheating a little"
Throwing suspicion over your career is great way of destroying it, and what for? trolling?
What you suggest is akin to being a cop and trolling other cops by doing suspicious things to pretend to be dirty cop... for jokes?
I don't really like the guy TBH. I don't watch his interviews because I don't think he's funny or entertaining or informative.
I'm just saying, he says a lot of weird shit - but other GMs do, too.
I'm not saying he's trolling by cheating ???
in his case it would be to pretend to cheat so everybody looses their shit.
being edgy , wierd or socially anxious is not trolling when its not on purpose.