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Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating

Posted by timothy on from the neither-kosher-nor-cricket dept.

cf18 writes "The French chess federation has suspended three top players for violating sporting ethics at a chess olympiad in Siberia last September. The allegation claims while the first member was playing, a second member would watch the game via internet, use software to find the best move, and send it to the third member via SMS. The third member would then sit himself at a particular table in the competition hall. Each table represented an agreed square on the chess board."

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  1. Hand gestures by denshao2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would have been much easier and less obvious than changing seats for every move.

  2. Re:naughty naughty by vux984 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You've obviously never played MMORPG. :)

    People will PAY EXTRA to cheat depriving themselves of any glory in accomplishment... for the empty bragging rights that come with having something you didn't earn, and which has no inherent real world value.

    But they still do it in droves.