“An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone’s Bluetooth connection to win games,”this news article says.”The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals.
Mr Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall, who then used a computer to relay moves to him, Indian chess federation secretary D.V. Sundar said on Wednesday”.
Cheating at chess
- December 28th, 2006
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by Jim_Downing
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Comments
@ 23:38
It may sound like fun when cheating in small games but tournaments are another matter. Frankly, I fail to understand this man because no cheating method is perfect and eventually, he was bound to be caught. But ofcourse, the idea of rapid gain might have sounded lucrative to him and like any other human being, he was succeptible to temptation.
I believe that we should all take a lesson from this and not try to cheat in major events like this man did, lest the addiction get us into trouble.
Aditya Y