The race for the US$13,000 top prize has intensified as a large chunk of the highest-rated seeds dropped out of the leaderboard, but it was a suspected cheating incident by one of the tournament’s lowest-rated players that stole the...
Can cheating be stopped?
Can chess checkmate the cheats? Cameras, Morse code buzzers and smartphones in the toilets – how these cheating gambits could be damaging the integrity of a beautiful game Stephen Moss Tuesday 8 September 2015 19.05 BST thletics is not...
Morse Code Chess Cheating
Italian chess player ‘cheats’ using Morse code and spy pendant Italian chess player allegedly uses a spy pendant containing a hidden camera to cheat during Italian tournament By Alice Philipson, Rome 5:32PM BST 07 Sep 2015 An Italian chess...
The man who catches Chess Cheats
Ken Regan Published July 2, 2015 By MICHAEL FLATT Reprinted from AtBuffalo When the chess world suspects someone of having cheated in a tournament, Ken Regan, UB associate professor of computer science, is the guy who gets the call....
Cheating with an iPhone
Shelby Lyman on Chess: In the Loo, With an iPhone Sunday, May 3, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, May 3, 2015) I first became fully aware of the practical implications of developing chess technology during a 1987 conversation with...
Player caught for cheating
‘Outside’ help lands chess player in trouble NEW DELHI, April 30, 2015 Updated: April 30, 2015 02:47 IST RAKESH RAO Cheating in chess is rampant with mobile technology increasingly playing a role. Lesser-rated players taking ‘outside’ help during a...
Cheating from the bathroom
Chess grandmaster cheats in tournament … from the bathroom By Holly Yan, CNN Updated 12:00 PM ET, Mon April 13, 2015 (CNN)Sometimes the best ideas come from the bathroom. But Gaioz Nigalidze’s ideas from the loo were a little...