Well said, Mr. Loquitur.
Ivanov speaks out!
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The Italian Chess Federation just banned some guy called Loris Cereda for cheating while using a micro camera in his glasses, along with an inner earpiece...exactly what we have been discussing here. The article is on chessvibes.
Here it is-
Italian mayor accused of taking bribe banned for chess cheating
The Italian Chess Federation has accused Loris Cereda, a former mayor of the small town of Buccinasco, Italy of cheating at chess. Cereda is the first person ever to have been kicked out of the federation, who accuse him of using a tiny camera in his glasses while playing games. It is "a milestone in fighting computer-assisted cheating" says Yuri Garrett, Board Director of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP).
Loris Cereda | Photo © Scacchierando
As the mayor of Buccinasco, a small town 7 km southwest of Milan, Loris Cereda was filmed in March 2011 allegedly taking a €10,000 bribe in exchange for handing out a lucrative public contract for a shopping centre. Cereda was arrested with five other officials, accused of corruption and the falsification of public documents. The trial is still under way.
Now Cereda is reaching the headlines once again, but this time for cheating at chess. Following outstanding results in recent chess games while he was wearing dark glasses, the Italian Chess Federation claims that he had a tiny camera installed in his glasses and, using an earpiece, received advice from someone with access to a computer.
On January 22nd, the Federazione Scacchistica Italiana published a note on its website that informed its members that Loris Cereda had been banned on the basis of a complaint submitted by three team mates with whom he played until 2012. The charge relates to the use of unlawful means during at least three team matches. The three have given testimonies and there is also some circumstantial evidence, which together has been considered sufficient to impose the ban from the federation.
Cereda has denied the accusations, and filed an appeal.
I have a question for everyone here....after examining his games, it is clear that he is a cheater. But, HOW did he cheat? Obviously he used an engine, but how can you pull something like this off in a strong tournament? Is it like the thing that happened to Kramnik....just repeated "bathroom" breaks? Or some sort of microphone in his ear with a partner running his positions through houdini? I guess I'm just worried that OTB chess tournaments might slowly disappear if there are ways that someone could use an engine and hide proof from the arbiters.
That guy sounds like a total scumbag in his interview too...seems like he was quite arrogant that he was able to pull off cheating in a higher class tournament.
abiogenesis23 wrote:
I guess I'm just worried that OTB chess tournaments might slowly disappear if there are ways that someone could use an engine and hide proof from the arbiters.
They just need to start using metal detectors. Handheld sets are fairly cheap.
FirebrandX wrote:
Sounds like they caught on to him when he started suddenly playing computer-strong out of the blue. I noticed Chessbase also mentioned the Clark Smiley cheating scandal that happened in the USCF. In that case, he didn't even have to wear a hidden device. Instead, he just pretended to be using a notation app on a handheld, when he was actually getting moves from an engine on it. He managed to cheat for several months before getting caught, though of course he denied cheating until the moment he got caught.
Whatever happened to Clark Smiley, Did USCF impose any kind of ban or did he just get away with nothing?
SmyslovFan wrote:
jesterville wrote:
"Jesterville, you overstate how weak his playing level was before his transformation. Lilov also made some gross exaggerations, which weakened his entire argument.
Ivanov was about 2200 before this, unless you think he's been cheating since 2009."
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Smyslov, I am not questioning his rating of 2200, I am merely indicating what his results actually were in Tournaments between 2011 and 2012, just prior to the miracle. Lilov actually questioned his rating and estimated it to actually be about 2000...but I am not doing this. The fact that he has never beated a 2200 player was also presented by Lilov as well. All I have said in my arguement actually took place.
Repeating a falsehood doesn't make it true.
Ivanov beat several players rated +2200 before 2011. In April 2010, he beat GM Boris Spassov.
http://ratings.fide.com/individual_calculations.phtml?idnumber=2903741&rating_period=2010-07-01&t=0
This does not exonerate or explain his current behavior, it only weakens your own arguments against him.
The problem with Spassov is that I don't understand how he/she can be a GM, the rating is 2335. Mistakenly I thought GM had a higher rating.
Lilov is just a FM, and his rating is 2433.
Feb 1, 2013
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iacogio wrote:
The problem with Spassov is that I don't understand how he/she can be a GM, the rating is 2335. Mistakenly I thought GM had a higher rating.
Lilov is just a FM, and his rating is 2433.
Liuben (not Boris!) Spassov became a GM in 1976. He was 67 years old when he lost to Ivanov, and his rating dropped by about 100 points since then.
It seems that either the cheating is increasing at the pro level, or just that they are being caught more often now. Criminal activity tends to be like an iceberg...you only see the top.
I didn't know that mayor of Buccinasco was a chess cheater. I knew they arrested him for bribes. However, it seems the problem is becoming huge, and like FM Lilov said this could bring the end of OTB chess.
It is really a disgrace that FIDE or USCF are not taking measures to stop this phenomenon. Maybe there could be a way to oblige these institutions to take care of the problem organizing a boycott of the yearly enrollment fee. That could be a wake up call.
I can see the future of OTB chess: metal detectors, signal jammers, X-ray scanners, body searches, cctv cameras, isolated tournament rooms, and possibly lie detectors as well.
We may as well play OTB chess in a maximum-security prison.
Really? That surprises me sunshine.. On a nude beach. Wow, I never expected to hear that from the naked pawn 
But it is ok for me.
Feb 2, 2013
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Many, many posts ago, I pointed out that Lilov's attack was a hatchet job that Chessbase gave credibility to with its prominent displays. I also pointed out that Kenneth Regan posted a compelling argument backed up by data and reproducible statistics. He explained the likelihood of anyone having such a high match-up rate.
Magnus Carlsen plays better than Ivanov did, but has lower match-up rates with Houdini. (Anyone who doubts this should ask what Carlsen's score in that tournament would have been.) While there is no "smoking gun" in the sense of someone witnessing him in the act of receiving moves, Ivanov clearly cheated.
The only remaining questions are whether he tries to cheat again, and if so, will he be caught?
There is also another question. Given the amount of "cheating" that has taken place at the pro level over the past 24 months or so, why has there been no action by FIDE to put in place preventative measures? Clearly the horse has left the stable already...why is the Landlord still absent? What will it take for meaningful measures to be introduced to slow the spate of fraud that has awaken?
I think the Landlord is still probably out tooling around with the Sirians...
Ouch! That really hurt.
His games that were broadcasted before they cut off his last 2 from speculation. Were right on the money with fritz! not cheating and beating houdini and rybka 10-0 is impossible. You can tell by the way he worded some answers he is lying. His is also a computer programmer which he doesnt mention in this interview.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
To claim that out of the blue a 2200 player can suddenly start playing unassisted moves that match the leading chess engine strongest choices as well or better than super-GM's moves would is an extraordinary claim. Nothing like it has happened in the history of chess so far as I'm aware.
Whereas players have cheated in chess games for so long as there have been chess games.
Res Ispa Loquitur.