Maybe this would dissuade all these drug users and other runner cheats! https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27182239/grandmaster-flush-chess-player-cheated-toilet
Maybe this would dissuade all these drug users and other runner cheats! https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27182239/grandmaster-flush-chess-player-cheated-toilet
How dare you publicly shame him!
Is LAPD ready for another one?
French law will punish those who recorded the toilet users.
I think it's a year in prison and ~50000 euros fine for each offense in general for recording secretly w/o consent.
Don't know if the toilet angle increases the penalty or not.
First prize was 1000 euros. And French police are going to be enthused over this?
BTW, in 2010 the French Olympiad team coach was found guilty of helping one of his young players cheat.
It's interesting that they didn't just suspend the player, but contacted the French police too. What would it take to get the police involved in a running related cheating incident? Prize $$? Thinking about how USATF has 'stolen' from it's athletes, perhaps an APB should be put out for Max, Stephanie, et.al........
kmaclam wrote:
Maybe this would dissuade all these drug users and other runner cheats!
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27182239/grandmaster-flush-chess-player-cheated-toilet
Do they ever test chess players for drug use?
https://www.inverse.com/article/27054-chess-performance-enhancing-drugs-doping-vassily-ivanchukConundrum wrote:
kmaclam wrote:
Maybe this would dissuade all these drug users and other runner cheats!
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27182239/grandmaster-flush-chess-player-cheated-toiletDo they ever test chess players for drug use?
In video games too.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/13/432073720/video-game-league-announces-random-drug-tests-for-competitorsNot drugs but cheating in bass fishing. A life of it apparently.
https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/
Nope.! wrote:
French law will punish those who recorded the toilet users.
I think it's a year in prison and ~50000 euros fine for each offense in general for recording secretly w/o consent.
Don't know if the toilet angle increases the penalty or not.
Yep, now the admins are back-pedalling off, and threatening those who "spread such rumors" with ethics bans for damaging chess.
Classic Bureaucracy 101.
http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/files/u5/Foto-8/2019-07-14_025008.jpgSomethingFishy wrote:
Not drugs but cheating in bass fishing. A life of it apparently.
https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/
Dang, someone really needs to start FishInvestigations! So many cheaters
Conundrum wrote:
Do they ever test chess players for drug use?
Yes. I think it was instituted largely to position chess for the Olympic Games, but that hasn't panned out. Chess does have its own Olympiad, and there was a famous case in which the great Vassily Ivanchuk refused to be detained by a doping tester and stormed out of the playing hall after a final-round loss. The players overwhelmingly supported Ivanchuk, who is a very entertaining and possibly crazy character, and Ivanchuk was ultimately not banned.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/ivanchuk-escapes-doping-ban-1099Really Fishy wrote:
SomethingFishy wrote:
Not drugs but cheating in bass fishing. A life of it apparently.
https://sdfish.com/general/dark-secret-americas-big-bass-guru-mike-long/Dang, someone really needs to start FishInvestigations! So many cheaters
That bass-tud!
I'm glad you posted this story. I was going to, but I was concerned that its proximity to a similar cheating scandal in running would get the thread deleted.
I follow international chess very closely, so when Igors Rausis showed up in the top-100 rating list last summer, 25 years after his one brief entry into the top 100 for a few months during 1983, I was surprised and a bit suspicious. Chess ability typically peaks in the twenties and early thirties, and while a few of the best players in the world can remain competitive against top-flight players into their fifties, I'm not aware of any other case in which a player has become a top player in his fifties or later, and Rausis is about 58 years old and playing stronger than ever -- and much stronger than he played in the previous couple of decades.
Over the past year, I've seen Rausis move all the way up to number 53 on the rating list. When I checked the internet chess chatter a couple of weeks ago, I saw that others were suspicious, too. The general view has been that Rausis inflated his rating by playing in obscure competitions against much weaker players, taking advantage of a known quirk in the rating system to increase his rating by a fraction of a point with each win over a much lower-rated player. Still, it was impressive that he was able to thrash those players so consistently, with a winning percentage of close to 98%. Turns out -- to the surprise of very few, I imagine -- Rausis was not merely gaming the rating system, but likely using computer engine assistance as well.
There have been other cases involving similar schemes -- cell phones have been banned in playing areas and players' restrooms for this reason -- but Rausis may be the highest-rated player to get caught.
Avocado's Number wrote:
last summer, 25 years after his one brief entry into the top 100 for a few months during 1983
1993, not 1983.
Track athletes: EPO
Baseball players: Steroids
Chess Players: Unlimited minutes and texting.
Whether it's pharmacology or technology, it's still cheating, folks!
Even as an amateur chess player I am thrilled that ESPN, a sports network, reported on this.
Here's an article (with video!) of a visually impaired 52-year-old chess player who was caught using a bluetooth earplug during a game against a nine-year-old girl last year. Since he had previously served a two-year ban for cheating, he received a lifetime ban this time. Like so many others, he refused to admit that he had cheated, and declined to appeal his ban because, he claimed, a serious medical condition required him to give up the game.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/life-time-ban-visually-impaired-player-for-cheating
Here's an article posted today about two cyclists being suspected by other racers of using electric motors in races and people getting mad. They refused when the race director wanted to inspect the bikes for motors. Police were called. There are sporting fraud laws in Europe where they actually do things about cheaters.
I've cheated in the dunny many times.
Often I sit in there farting away but not crapping.
Taking up valuable time with my Wife.