By Chess Tutor William Stewart Original Article on Chess Cheating available here. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) released a public statement on June 28, 2011 declaring the ultra-strong computer chess program Rybka guilty of plagiarism, specifically alleging that...
Procedural infractions on the side of the federation
Feller’s Case”: decision of the FCF about disqualification suspended There is a continuation of “Feller’s case”. Yesterday Versailles trial court suspended the decision of the French Chess Federation (FCF) about disqualification of Sebastien Feller and Arnaud Hauchard due to...
Four world championship titles stripped
Computer chess champ stripped of its four titlesBy Claire CourchaneThe Washington Times9:40 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2011 Yet another world champion has been brought low for suspected use of a banned performance-enhancing substance. Rybka, the chess-playing computer program that...
Cheating at chess has long, dark history
Players caught ‘trying ah ting’ Cheating at chess has long, dark history Published: Thu, 2011-06-16 23:10 Carl Jacobs In Trini parlance, Milan Matulovic was obviously “trying ah ting.” At the Sousse Interzonal chess tournament in 1967, the Yugoslav Grandmaster...
Another cheating scandal
Player caught cheating at German Championship 4 June 2011, 18.15 CET | By Peter Doggers A participant of the German Championship, which concluded on Friday in Bonn, was caught cheating. FM Christoph Natsidis used a chess program on his...
Reaction from French Chess Players
Réaction des joueurs français – Reaction from French chess players, presented by Europe Echecs Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Some known chess cheating cases in the past
Chess cheating cases over the years Over the years there have been many high profile and intriguing case of cheating in chess, using differing levels of sophistication. Wired-up chess player banned In January 2007, an Indian chess player who...
Heading to the court?
White knights catch French grandmasters cheating by textBy John Lichfield in ParisFriday, 25 March 2011 The tranquil world of international chess has been thrown into uproar by accusations of intricate “cheating by text message” against three senior French players....
The French cheating allegation verdict
The verdictAfter deliberating for 2 hours, the commission found the three players guilty of violation of sports ethics at the Khanty Mansiysk Chess Olympiad. The committee condemned International Master Cyril Marzolo and gave him 5-year suspension. Grandmaster Sebastien Feller...
Prizes frozen in cheating probe
Posted on Wed, Oct. 28, 2009Sudoku prizes frozen in cheating probeBy John TimpaneInquirer Staff Writer Officials of The Philadelphia Inquirer National Sudoku Championship have frozen payouts of the top prize awards from Saturday’s finals pending an investigation of suspected...