Chess cheating cases over the years

Chess cheating cases over the years: "Over the years there have been many high profile and intriguing case of cheating in chess, using differing levels of sophistication. Wired-up chess player banned. In January 2007, an Indian chess player who stitched a mobile phone ear-piece into his baseball cap to get assistance from an accomplice with a computer was banned from the game for ten years. Umakant Sharma, 25, came under suspicion after he suddenly began thrashing players who were ranked many places above him - winning the All-Indian Chess Championship despite being ranked outside the world's top 50,000 players only a year previously. Text message moves. At the Dubai Open in ..."