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Cases of cheating in chess.
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This
page is one that was created in April, 2015, it is dedicated to documented
cases of cheating
... I thought that it would be handy to have one page dedicated to this topic.
(Especially in lieu of the fact that the Georgian Chess Champion, GM G.
Nigalidze, was caught cheating vs. T. Petrosian, see the numbered entry {#3}
below.)
Of
course - for me - the mother of all low-life, useless, scumbag cheaters would
have to be the extreme punk, Borislav K. Ivanov. This was a player - who
perhaps in his very first international tournament appearance - was possibly
cheating. [An FM, who was at this tournament, said that he heard a rumor that
another player had accused Ivanov of having a keypad taped to his leg ...
underneath (long) gym pants. His behavior was always bizarre, he never used any
time to (really) think about a move, always taking 1-2 minutes to play a move
... no matter how complicated the position.] He later disappeared, and then
re-surfaced - this was about the time that he began to defeat GM's with the
greatest of ease. Some of this player's fans touted him as ... "The next
Garry Kasparov." Of course, this was total nonsense!!! There were quite a
few incidents where he was suspected of cheating and the TD's (TD
= tournament directors) at a FIDE tournament requested him to remove his
clothing ... and/or (to remove) his socks and
shoes. (He NEVER did both!) He
was eventually caught red-handed with some type of electronic device - taped to
his skin - underneath his shirt. He has now been banned (for life) by the
Bulgarian chess federation and FIDE has deleted his name from the their rating
lists and all of their records.
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- His page on CG website,
I am user "LIFE
Master AJ" on that
website. [ Please go back to the very first
page of kibitzing -
- on that site, for Borislav Ivanov - and
read all of my comments there ... I think I first weigh in on this debate on
page 10 or 11.
(And ... it is humorous to see how all the fish,
trolls, and other idiots ... on the CG site
... continuously bash me. And how the
owner of this site - D. Freeman - not only
allows, but appears to encourage ... and even reward it.) There are many links on
this page to the reports
on the ChessBase website,
these document how S. Ivanov was first suspected of cheating ...
he went on to
defeat many really good players, including Georgiev. Of course, Ivanov
should get NONE of the credit, all of
his games are suspiciously close {or a perfect match} to the Houdini chess
program/engine. ]
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- Search
the Internet - using the Google
search engine - for this player.
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- B.
Ivanov announces the end of his chess career.
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Another
<infamous> case of cheating involved a real player, GM Sebastian Feller
of France. Apparently, he is a real player (unlike B. Ivanov) ...
... but ... somewhere along the way ... he decided to cheat during a FIDE
Olympiad. (He was banned for over two years.) Will he return to
chess?
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Saturday; January 5th, 2013: I have covered
the topic of cheating ... on my web pages, many, many times. (If you are a
regular reader, than you would know this. I even had one website
closed, because the cheaters on ICC and the Playchess server objected to my
naming their handles.) Many years ago (1991?) - at a World Open, no less - I
witnessed one of the first attempts to cheat by one "John
Neumann." (He had an ally, someone who had a very strong program <telephone
link?> in the hotel room, and they communicated via a radio
keypad.) We had a French GM cheat a while back - at the FIDE Olympiads - and
he was stripped of his title. Rybka 4 was stripped of its title when it
became obvious that the first version of this program was simply a
clone/copy of a strong "freeware" program. Now, once more, the
specter of cheating has, once again, raised its ugly head.
(Click HERE.) [More
on this story.]
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Monday; February 4th, 2013: A
new case of cheating ... it is almost too funny, it's a politician who
is (also) under investigation for corruption!
(As an aside, there is another
case of cheating where I actually know someone who was involved. This
person sent me a game and asked that I check it - and I did. Although I
dismissed it - I felt sure that USCF would have taken the proper precautions
to prevent such an event - it now appears that I was sadly and grievously
mistaken. I think that all members must now demand that USCF STOP allowing
ANY electronic device to record a chess game ... period.) (GM
Serper tackles this topic.)
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Sunday; April 12th, 2015: Many years ago, I
warned against cheaters in chess. (This warning got my website closed,
but only in a very bad way. It seemed that the haters FALSELY ALLEGED that
my website
was full of all kinds of bad stuff. Because it came from someone with clout,
they closed it on their word, {alone} only to
find out - later- that they had lied. Later - they re-opened the website,
but I had already moved everything. I don't know if anything good came out
of this whole incredible episode, it did make a lot of extra work for
me.)
G. Nigalidze. Now, yet another
titled player has been caught cheating. [His
FIDE card.] (more)
(a second
article)
(About 6 months to one year ago, a player sent me one
of this player's games.
I looked at it, and found it to be VERY suspicious! I commented that a lot
of the moves matched engines like Rybka and Houdini. He posted this on
another website, after which I was subjected to about 30-50 e-mails of a
horrible, abusive nature. In fact, it was so bad, that I stopped looking at
my e-mails for a long time. {Many days.} One writer commented that: "I
am a regular on the CG website and I know your bs reputation. You always see
cheaters where none exist, you are nothing but an old, paranoid jerk."
Despite these kinds of opinions, it seemed that I was right - yet again.)
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Yet
another case of cheating in chess ... a 1500 beats a GM ... and
when they search the player in question, they were in for a big surprise.
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This
is not a CLEAR case of cheating, yet I have to be HIGHLY
suspicious!! (Shades of Ivanov, they remove this lady player's games OFF the
live (internet) broadcast, and instead go to a DELAYED format ... and she
loses.
(Click
HERE.)
I found this article on this page.
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