http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4238
Summary: Dutch player in team match left the playing hall to 'get some fresh air', the arbiter followed him and caught him using pocket fritz. whether he did this to analyse the game was not clear.
Anyways, he's banned for the rest of this season and the next two seasons as well.
The guy has a dutch ELO of 2220. Makes one wonder how many of those points he cheated out of others.
Originally posted by schakuhrMaybe he didn't cheat and he was analysing the game. It is allowed.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4238
Summary: Dutch player in team match left the playing hall to 'get some fresh air', the arbiter followed him and caught him using pocket fritz. whether he did this to analyse the game was not clear.
Anyways, he's banned for the rest of this season and the next two seasons as well.
The guy has a dutch ELO of 2220. Makes one wonder how many of those points he cheated out of others.
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What I don't understand is why the guy didn't just go into a toilet cubicle and use his pocket Fritz there? That way he could have cheated quite easily without any danger of being caught.
Maybe arbiters should be given permission to search everyone before the game and confiscate anything that can be used as an aid. That would include mobile phones, pocket chess sets, PDA's, etc. But what if someone refused to be searched? Would they be automatically defaulted? If there were female players, they would probably need to be searched by another female. But female arbiters are very rare.
Originally posted by chessisvanityI agree, it would also introduce a fun minigame of booting your opponent hard under the table to try to get them to fall off their chair thus losing the game.
lol sealed moves are gone with the dodo.
i say 1 hour on the clock for each player and if you leave the table you resign.