It has come to my attention that one of our Club members has again been banned for cheating in our inhouse tournament 7!

Of the 7 inhouse tournaments that I have run 6 of those have had banned club members involved 5 winning medals.  Now two players have been banned both in the Quarter Finals, so they are not going to win a medal.  The newest player caught for cheating is chessnoob.  So again if you are in this club and you cheat, you represent this club.  I can't even imagine people would cheat against their own club members.  But If you read this and you cheat in chess, get the f out!  Over and over again it keeps happening in this club and I do not like it.  It is not funny, it is not warranted, there are many of you that are legit.  But obviously we have some that do not care about this club, or anyone that participates in our club events.

Chessnoob was banned and beat Sean Tobin our Fide Master in the quarter final.  Sean just messaged me about it, and here i am up late night having to deal with the reprecussions.  So if you are in this club and you cheat on chess.com,  I do not want you in this club . It is not fair to anyone else.

Lastly somehow 13 players that were not in this club, and never have been in this club, somehow entered this tournament.  I do not know how it happened.  One of which was banned immediately.  Chessnoob just was banned. Another 600 elo exited the tournament after winning every game and after I made the first announcement about cheating in inhouse tournament 7.  There are 5 non club members in the semi-final, and only 3 of our club members still vying for the four spots in the final.  I already have a hunch another non member is cheating in the semifinal.

When the final is complete I will have a recap announcement.  In the mean time, Please play fair, follow fair play policy of chess.com and do not cheat.

Thank You!