Is Cereda a cheater?

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(This topic is become too common or it's just me?)

Hello all: i'd like to hear some opinions in the last chess scandal: here the news, here the (google translation) sentence, here the appeal of Mr Cereda (google translation).

AFAIK it's a prime for a life ban!

Chers!

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The evidence isn't publicly available.

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He could just be an occasional genius who likes to wear camera glasses.

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SmyslovFan ha scritto:

The evidence isn't publicly available.

Sorry, what do you mean? I've linked the full test of the sentence, which (of course) contains all the evidences gatered

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Hi everybody,

on the 30th of april, Cereda was cleared of all charges against him.

Here you can find the verdict (sorry, it's in italian: I don't know how to automatically translate it).

Avatar of niceforkinmove

Was he in fact wearing glasses with a camera plus an ear piece?

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The answer is: there is no evidence he was.

It seems important to me, to point the fact that there has never been any evidence against Cereda, only the testimonies of three other players stating they had the suspect he was cheating during three (unrated) games.

Why did they have such suspect? They say because they noticed Cereda had something in his ear, and in one or two of the occasions he was wearing some "strange fashioned" glasses he was not used to have in other occasions.

They did not face him in none of the occasions to clarify the issue or get him caught red handed, even if months passed between one game and another. They spoke only months later, wich seems at least a bad decision.

Cereda says little about the ear-plug, and states that those glasses were a cheap model he bought to replace his own when he broke them, and that they had lights for reading in the dark.

The verdict also stresses there were incoherences between the testimonies.

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cordata wrote:
... and that they had lights for reading in the dark.

 

Until this moment, I thought I had heard it all. Laughing

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Mmh, I think I would have preferred to accept the accuse of cheating, then admitting I was wearing... that thing.