Archive for Cheating
Thursday, May 23, 2013 13:05
Unfortunately the topic of cheating in chess is still quite topical. In this article we sum up a number of recent developments, helped by the Facebook group No more cheating in chess!! Cheat=ban for life.
Borislav Ivanov
The Bulgarian Chess Federation has suspended Borislav Ivanov from official events for a period of four months. (See PDF)
The...
Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:14
The Irish Independent has reported about a cheating incident at the Cork Chess Congress which took place last week. During one of his games, Gabriel Mirza (a former Irish Chess Union Secretary) spotted his 16-year-old opponent using a computing device. Mirza decided to kick the door in and drag the player outside (despite being asked to 'calm down...
Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:21
The Italian Chess Federation has accused Loris Cereda, a former mayor of the small town of Buccinasco, Italy of cheating at chess. Cereda is the first person ever to have been kicked out of the federation, who accuse him of using a tiny camera in his glasses while playing games. It is "a milestone in fighting computer-assisted cheating" says Yuri...
Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:40
In a week when the biggest story in the mainstream media is about Lance Armstrong possibly admitting the use of doping to Oprah, the chess world has its own cheating story that seems to be dragging on. Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Ken Regan made an analysis and wrote a piece that addresses the question "What constitutes...
Sunday, December 30, 2012 14:04
During the Zadar open, held 16-22 December, a Bulgarian chess player was strip searched after being suspected of cheating. The arbiters didn't find anything and apologized, but the news did reach Croatian main stream media.
Borislav Ivanov, untitled and rated 2227, had the tournament of his life at the Zadar Open which concluded last week. The 25-...
Monday, October 29, 2012 23:11
Last week, when I read about the recent cheating scandal in the German Bundesliga, GM Falko Bindrich's open letter responding to the accusations and especially the comments below the article, I immediately thought of a book on cheating I happened to be reading: Dan Ariely's The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How we Lie to Everyone - Especially...
Thursday, October 25, 2012 20:38
Falko Bindrich today denied that he cheated during the first Bundesliga weekend. In a document of five A4 pages, the 22 year old German grandmaster rejected the suspicion of fraud and declared that his smartphone was "always switched off".
Falko Bindrich responds to allegations of cheating | Photo © Georgios Souleidis courtesy of the Bundesliga...
Monday, October 22, 2012 12:01
In Sunday's second round of the Bundesliga in Germany the chess games were overshadowed by an incident of suspected cheating. Falko Bindrich's game was declared lost by the arbiter when the German grandmaster admitted that he had his smartphone with him while visiting the toilet, but refused to show it.
Falko Bindrich, suspected of cheating |...
Monday, July 30, 2012 11:39
The FIDE Ethics Commission has confirmed the French Chess Federation's suspension of Sébastien Feller, Arnaud Hauchard and Cyril Marzolo for cheating at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk in September 2010. The judgement was published today at the FIDE website.
The French Chess Federation's website announced the news on Saturday, FIDE two days...
Sunday, May 27, 2012 18:05
David Navara finished 3rd at the Reykjavik Open two months ago in Iceland, during which he gave a long interview to Grandmaster Vasily Papin. The interview – where the Czech grandmaster talks, for instance, about his doubts about the life of a chess professional, Bobby Fischer and how he fell victim to Viktor Korchnoi’s legendary sharp tongue –...
