10 April 2011

Chess world rocked by French cheating scandal

Chess world rocked by French cheating scandal: "Three top French chess players have been found guilty of cheating in last year's world championship, using an ingenious messaging system. The French chess federation has suspended Sébastien Feller, a 20-year-old grandmaster, his team-mate Cyril Marzolo, 32, and Arnaud Hauchard, 39, the French team captain. It said they used mobile text messages, a remote chess computer and coded signals to beat the opposition. The fraud, which took place during last September's Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, has rocked the chess world, which prides itself on its code of honour. Rival teams have been known to accuse each other of cheating, but in this case the whistle-blower was ..."

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