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Chess player banned after cheating with Bluetooth
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| 12/28/2006, 3:20 PM ET
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Posted on 12/28/2006 3:44:22 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
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.
"We have banned him for 10 years," he told Reuters. "We wanted to send a clear message to such people."
Chess officials were also probing whether another player had similar advantages through such illegal means, he added.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dumbass
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10 year ban? I would've thought that he'd earned a lifetime ban on this caper.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
What's it with India these days? First the woman runner that wasn't and now this....
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:46:07 PM PST
by
Dutch Boy
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Given the life expectancy in India, it MIGHT be lifetime!
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:47:54 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Cheating at Chess! He should be shot! /S
Really though computer chess is so good if not caught he could of been the next World Champion.
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:49:05 PM PST
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Technically it's possible for a computer to play chess flawlessly but it was take millions of years to make a move.
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:49:45 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Under his cloth cap? What a knitwit.
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:50:21 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"10 year ban? I would've thought that he'd earned a lifetime ban on this caper." I think Bud Selig is the Commissioner of the Indian Chess Federation.
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:50:29 PM PST
by
fat city
(What part of cognitive dissonance don't you understand?)
To: fat city
Check and Mate!!
Meadow Muffin
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:00:27 PM PST
by
rwgal
To: rwgal
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:09:55 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
i just don't understand people who have the desire to cheat... and then to actually act on that desire... why pretend to be something you're not? "oh--you're so great... the best... " but in reality, the person is a cheater... no character...
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Bluetooth, the Chess world's version of steroids.
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:22:15 PM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Borges
Depends on the level. Judging from him qualifying for national championship - probably a master. Regular computers are playing at this level, one doesn't need the Deep Blue [which has been disassembled long ago, anyway].
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:24:20 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: saganite
"Umakant, the computer says Bishop to F7 checkmate"
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Kind of like Goldfinger cheating at cards, eh?
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:36:04 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: GSlob
Standard Over the shelf computer programs like Fritz, Shredder and other Chessbase.com computer games can beat any Grandmaster.
Computer Chess Programs are on par with the greatest of the current chess players. Humans are a sub-par player now.
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:45:19 PM PST
by
FLOutdoorsman
("If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.")
he should have tried for a surgical implant, like Hugh O'Brian usd in Search.
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:47:50 PM PST
by
isom35
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
How were his "associates" determining which moves to feed him? How did he know that their moves were any better than the ones he would make by himself?
If I had been advising him, he would have been mated before he'd advanced his queen's pawn!
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:03:24 PM PST
by
IronJack
(=)
To: latina4dubya
To: IronJack
If he was better than a computer, then he wouldn't have felt a need for it. Clearly, he's worse than a computer.
To: billybudd
Have you played Fritz lately?
Heck have you even played ChessMaster 10 lately?
These mainstream engines are pretty dog gone strong.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:32:35 PM PST
by
ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
(To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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