Look Out For the Cheater

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  • Look Out For the Cheater

    It never stops. Human Nature 101.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/sport...ntl/index.html
    "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
    "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
    "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

  • #2
    Originally posted by Peter McKillop View Post
    a quote from the article:

    "According to a statement by Chief Arbiter Óscar Bruno de Prado Rodríguez, a mobile device was later found in a toilet cubicle, alongside a note in a script similar to the 22-year-old’s handwriting, Chess.com reported."

    Peter, doesn't this arouse your suspicions? Could a GM actually be so stupid as to cheat with a mobile phone and leave the phone and a handwritten note in a toilet stall, waiting to be discovered?

    What we might have here is a setup. I would assume that the organizers of this event collect mobile devices from players as they enter the playing area. Do they document whose mobile devices they collected? If yes, where is that document and did this GM have his phone collected? If yes ... where are the collected phones kept? Who has access to them?

    could someone find someone's mobile phone among the collected phones, steal it, put it in a toilet stall along with a "forged" note?

    There might be more than 1 way to cheat in these events.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Pargat Perrer View Post

      a quote from the article:

      "According to a statement by Chief Arbiter Óscar Bruno de Prado Rodríguez, a mobile device was later found in a toilet cubicle, alongside a note in a script similar to the 22-year-old’s handwriting, Chess.com reported."

      Peter, doesn't this arouse your suspicions? Could a GM actually be so stupid as to cheat with a mobile phone and leave the phone and a handwritten note in a toilet stall, waiting to be discovered?

      What we might have here is a setup. I would assume that the organizers of this event collect mobile devices from players as they enter the playing area. Do they document whose mobile devices they collected? If yes, where is that document and did this GM have his phone collected? If yes ... where are the collected phones kept? Who has access to them?

      could someone find someone's mobile phone among the collected phones, steal it, put it in a toilet stall along with a "forged" note?

      There might be more than 1 way to cheat in these events.
      Interesting points, Pargat. It does seem extraordinary that someone with GM-level smarts would allow himself to be caught so easily.
      "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
      "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
      "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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      • #4
        So disappointing.

        Frank Dixon
        NTD, Kingston

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