Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating

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."

Comments

Re:PATHETIC.

[MarkRose]

Surrender?

Re:PATHETIC.

[LoP_XTC]

So the French can't even pwn at Chess without cheating? What CAN they do without stooping to low ethical levels?

Shoot down Libyan jets after they have landed back at their home air bases? :)

A worthy effort

[eyenot]

Chess is for autistic, gullible, unimaginative people who should be stuck im the dark ages if at all and in any way possible.

That it teaches strategy is a misnomer; the limitations on the game's entire possible data set is a cul-de-sac that the player enters willingly, with one ruse: that white is entering the room with black behind holding the knife, whereas in actuality the first player "leads" in the sense of gesturing into the room (wherein lies the end) and follows as black is forced to respond to the initial gesture.

If two gods were to play, white would forever win. This we *do* know as indisputable fact. Icingly we can also store all nine piece endgames -- ALL of them, possible, probable, or not -- on a singlle Digital Video Disc.

Chess does nothing but pigeomhole otherwise useful mental cycles. I't's all niches and workout, no payoff or analogy. Even simple study of naval warfare would be a better exertion for every single one of chess's claimed passive benefits. For the active, well, modern gameplay has surely provided better. Golf. Football. Flight sims. aNYTHING is closer to reality.

Some people believe chess is mystical because we cannot yet compute it all. The same people believe human conciousness can exist in electrons and transistors (but not the equivalent in even a trillion abacii). Chess is an abacus compared to what we can achieve today in challenges and discoveries. The holdover is entirely for nostalgia.

These young men showed it up is all. If the scheme had been more actively encryptable, and the answers to questioning prepared more carefully, they would have ruined exhibition chess for the rest of eternity.

So saying, they have done so by proxy. I applaud their genius and so should every instructor alive today, for the liberation they exposed.

Re:A worthy effort

[eyenot]

Oh my god, shut up.

You think you can flagrantly insult me without base and find a foothold? You're a hapless romantic, nervously prizing chess for purely sentimentalist motives. You're no intellectual or you would be able to find no quarrel in any of my conjectures.

If you just want to troll, there's 4chan (or so i hear). If you need more there's irc. But you've officially earned te reward of "longest response to an obviously unmotivated troll in over ten years".

From yours truly,
Eyenot

P.S. You dont't even know me, whar a laugh! Please, roast me again in the future, troll!