top French players banned for years

[Alan Baljeu]

Re: top French players banned for years

And then there's bridge:
http://books.google.com/books?id=9GB...ingers&f=false

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: top French players banned for years

In the 1970's, a respected Montreal chess expert/master was caught cheating at bridge, and sanctions were imposed. I believe he still plays bridge at a high level (I haven't seen him involved in chess for years)..

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: top French players banned for years

As a sometimes arbiter at the Olympiads, I've pointed out before that there is scant reason to allow the captains into the playing area. Certainly for all the years that pairings were Swiss and standings were by game points. It's a tradition.

In early 2007, Kramnik suggested a 15- or 20- minute delay on move transmission, which would make broadcast-based cheating more difficult. For the 2007 Canadian Open, I inquired of Mon Roi, who told me that the only way they could delay transmission would be to unplug the ethernet cable. Impractical.

Of course, you make cheating more difficult, cheaters become more resourceful.

Kramnik and I seem to have at least one predecessor: Frederic Friedel. He reports that his attempts have met with apathy from FIDE. Another moment for Parkinson or Murphy. Parkinson wrote something like: "the amount of time spent by a committee is inversely proportional to its importance" (so it takes hours to decide whether to buy a box of staples, but minutes to buy a new office condo), but while looking for the exact formulation, I came across this:

Sweeney's Law
The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

:)

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: top French players banned for years

And then there's bridge:
http://books.google.com/books?id=9GB...ingers&f=false

Interesting read, but the most amazing is that google's quoting 55+ meaty pages of a book isn't some sort of copyright infringement... or did they license the material from the publisher?

I had heard of this series of incidents, but wonder what is the reason for revisiting it in such excruciating detail. Is it still being denied in Britain, over four decades later? If you have to show that the information transmitted changed the play (as the British court case seems to have entertained), then that is a criterion that the FFE Three will want to pursue.

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: top French players banned for years

As of 6:55pm (Ont. time) tonight, CBC Radio (Kitchener-Waterloo - 89.1 FM , & possibly Toronto & other areas) are picking up the Olympiad story as well (maybe check the "As it Happens" or other programs that run between now & 10pm). http://www.cbc.ca/

[Larry Bevand]

Re: top French players banned for years

Kramnik and I seem to have at least one predecessor: Frederic Friedel. He reports that his attempts have met with apathy from FIDE. Another moment for Parkinson or Murphy. Parkinson wrote something like: "the amount of time spent by a committee is inversely proportional to its importance" (so it takes hours to decide whether to buy a box of staples, but minutes to buy a new office condo), but while looking for the exact formulation, I came across this:

Sweeney's Law
The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

:)

ON CBC radio tonight...it looks like cheating happened (still to be proved)...I am listening as I type..

this is serious

I witnessed a question of cheating in Canada a few years ago...the world has changed...and we have to change with the changing times...very sad

[Ken MacDonald]

Wow! See the Article by Short in the Current New In Chess Magazine

Very interesting developments in the case. I have been following the games of GM Feller for a while and always thought it was extremely impressive the way he manhandled many strong GM's flawlessly.

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/fr...e-says-guilty/

Issue # 2, 2011, gives 2 pages to an article by Short (Short Stories) entitled French Fraud. Outright accusations of various cheating incidents in chess that have taken place over almost 30 years. He names those involved and I don't mean subtle comments, these are direct accusations!