Questions concerning cheating in various forms, for example using a chess computer in tournaments or throwing a game.
Questions tagged [cheating]
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If Hans Niemann is cheating, how?
Yesterday, Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup 2022 after his loss to Hans Niemann in Round 3. Multiple tweets, streams, comments, and security checks later, the accusation of Niemann cheating is pretty obvious!
Magnus Carlsen lost to…
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Can you say anything if you see cheating at another board?
Let's say you see that player A on the board next to yours violates a rule such as touch-move or changes the move after releasing the piece, but their opponent, player B, doesn't notice. Can you say anything to player B, and if so, could B make a…
itub
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Bathroom cheating
A serious threat to human chess competition seems to be phone-in-the-bathroom cheating. Is anything being done to address this problem?
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How did IM Gotham discover cheating before the game?
In a recent scandal, IM Gotham correctly pointed out a cheat even before the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAY_pC3yc0c&ab_channel=JustForFunHD
The video was in a low digital quality so I couldn't see the screen properly. Not sure where to…
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Was Ilya Makoveev cheating?
I don't know the veracity of this link, but it says the wunderkind Ilya Makoveev is disqualified for cheating. I could also see this as well. Is it true? What happened actually?
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