Why would the circus have an adverse effect on Carlsen? He seems to be perfectly happy in his role (non-answers, i.e. insinuations that may not be legally relevant, are part of it), and he still gets lots of fan support.
To answer your questions: According to chess24, Dlugy was "accused of cheating on chess.com in the past". Apparently this refers to a Titled Tuesday event in April 2017 where Dlugy was seemingly disqualified.
Again quoting chess24, 2019 refers to "facing an unprecedented wave of criticism in Norway over his attempts to get the Norwegian Chess Federation to accept sponsorship from a gambling company". Illegal by Norwegian law, and Carlsen's trick had been to suddenly found a chess club with several hundred members in order to manipulate results of a Norwegian federation election (number of votes per club depended on number of members). Carlsen still lost this democratic election and then officially left the Norwegian Chess federation (while still representing Norway in some team events).
As for the circus having an adverse effect on Carlsen, there are both virtuous and selfish reasons why it might bother him. The selfish reasons: yes, there are plenty of people on his side, but also plenty of people - including a fair number of his peers - who think he has done the wrong thing, and that unless he has some evidence what he's doing is disgraceful. Unless one is a psychopath, it's not pleasant to have one's name publicly dragged through the mud by significant numbers of people.
I'll leave an elaboration of the virtuous reasons as an exercise for you.
Why would the circus have an adverse effect on Carlsen? He seems to be perfectly happy in his role (non-answers, i.e. insinuations that may not be legally relevant, are part of it), and he still gets lots of fan support.
To answer your questions: According to chess24, Dlugy was "accused of cheating on chess.com in the past". Apparently this refers to a Titled Tuesday event in April 2017 where Dlugy was seemingly disqualified.
Again quoting chess24, 2019 refers to "facing an unprecedented wave of criticism in Norway over his attempts to get the Norwegian Chess Federation to accept sponsorship from a gambling company". Illegal by Norwegian law, and Carlsen's trick had been to suddenly found a chess club with several hundred members in order to manipulate results of a Norwegian federation election (number of votes per club depended on number of members). Carlsen still lost this democratic election and then officially left the Norwegian Chess federation (while still representing Norway in some team events).
Thanks for your answers to the questions.
As for the circus having an adverse effect on Carlsen, there are both virtuous and selfish reasons why it might bother him. The selfish reasons: yes, there are plenty of people on his side, but also plenty of people - including a fair number of his peers - who think he has done the wrong thing, and that unless he has some evidence what he's doing is disgraceful. Unless one is a psychopath, it's not pleasant to have one's name publicly dragged through the mud by significant numbers of people.
I'll leave an elaboration of the virtuous reasons as an exercise for you.