The questions were sent by email and he replied in the same way. Is that an interview? I don't know. What do you mean by interview?

They did prove it. He got off (temporarily for now) because of some legal technicalities.

Why he keeps denying I don't understand. (Self-delusion?) How does he explain the huge number of sms messages with moves sent during the game?

@Peter: "One of the participants is Sebastien Feller who, for the first time it seems, fully denied that he cheated in Khanty-Mansiysk last year."

For the first time, pff, how can you say that? Aren't you the same guy who wrote the following article here on ChessVibes?

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/three-french-players-accused-of-cheati...

The ones over at ChessBase: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7471

I wonder what the black market in chess clocks is like?! I read that at the British Championships someone stole a couple of laptops being used by the main web designer/guy doing the live video (I think).

What do Feller's peers think? Are they uncomfortable playing against him?

The message is: Do it, because you're up against others who do it. Do it, even if you might get caught it's a long shot for the federation to prove anything.

Which photos do you mean? BTW, the tournament (groups B, C and D) has another scandal, a rather innocent and unusual one: Today's round had to be postponed until tomorrow - because overnight 230 clocks were stolen from the venue.

Judging by some of the photos it seems as though the spectators are already acting as though they're banned from the playing hall :)

Thanks for sharing! To add on this: The interview (and the FFE website) mentions that live transmission was/is delayed by 30 minutes. But Fressinet would like even more drastic measures, namely to ban spectators from the playing hall - indeed a strange atmosphere, at least bordering on paranoia.

To avoid misunderstandings, this is my deduction. I'm here in Caen and I've spoken to Feller, but he didn't go into details about the case because it's stil open. I will interview him tomorrow, live and without lawyers (or anyone else, for that matter). I have no idea if someone will publish my interview though... it's my own assignment :)

Let justice do the job and keep doing what you are best at .
Do you know more about prosecutor's opinion and complainant’s credibility ?
This guy is just innocent till the cheating case has been proven .
And that's that !

feller looks like a 1600 player in that game...

I can understand the thirst for truth we all have, and I'm aware that many comments are inspired by this, but it's a bit out of reality to try to find a logic in everything human beings do, especially when it comes about doing something illegal (it's the case here, even if we don't know which side did it).
History has proven that human beings don't act in the most logic or efficient way.
If we started with the logic arguments, there are many for each side of this story.
Whatever version is the real one, they both contain a great number of absurd things.
It goes without saying, though, that if they really wanted to ruin this guy's career, chosing such a big event, where all the world participated, would have had a huge resonance and involved every nation's chess community at any level.
You can't deny that the only thing that we _really_ know about FFE is that they made their BEST to make EVERYONE know about this fact and that they've spread lots of information about the case and against Feller long before it was, if not legal, at least advisable, also considering the guy was some 19 years old at the time.
They chose to have a public trial in the media, and this of course attracts many fans, because the public just loves it when they're told information in a way they can understand, but now this strategy is backfiring, because jurisprudence is a completely different story and when you have to prove something, you have to do it with more than 'I've run my engine and 90% of the moves were the first choice of the computer'. This claim, without any other serious variable taken into account, is just crap that only general public and not a single court would take into consideration. For example, without knowing exactly how it took to make a move, how the process to transmit the move to the player took, which computer were the cheaters running, you just don't know which move the computer is suggesting, also, you should of course not consider the theory moves and forced ones. As a matter of fact you also should take some decisions on which moves to consider or not, which is, of course, arbitrary. Well, I tried to do the same analysis, and not only I didn't have the same results as Fressinet, but I also don't agree with my own analysis (if I use different parameters, things changes).
But, as I said, this is not a simple case, and I will write an article about it, so I'll shut up from now on. :)

Good luck Istratescu ! He is a wonderful talent from Romania playing now for France. Hope you will become a 2700+ player soon.

Chessbase.com came up with a genius solution to the cheating dilemma.......Feller should reveal the sms messages. Strange that nobody thought of that, and especially Feller himself will be gratefull to chessbase. Thanks to chessbase he will soon be declared innocent.

Ok, more rightfull claimers for that exceptional insight..........and I thinking maybe chessbase was taking us for a ride. ; )

Where there is smoke, there is fire...

I just witnessed Argentinian GM Pablo Lafuente cheating a 12-year old kid in a south African tournament. How low can you go..
Lafuente was coaching the opponent and the match was for the title of that division. Lafuente was allowed on the playing area as he was a 'visiting dignatary'. He used a similar system to Feller (Lafuente played in the 39th Olympiad as well). He counted off boards at empty tables and stood there facing each compass point to indicate the piece to move.
Many people were shocked if not outraged at the incident given it happened at a junior tournament and by a GM.

I played this games from these Feller from some tournements. All computermoves.
It was so very clear. And then years later he does it again. Many chess moves in his sms on his phone. Pfff. They must bann this "chess players" for live.
They harm the noble sport. Don t want to see his face anymore.
Can t they do something about this please?
It s such a shame.