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"Cheating and Chess"
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richie_and_oprah wrote:
Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:
People are punished the second they are accused.
Serious bullsh_t.
Jan 29, 2016
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#25
Yesterday, in the college I played someone who don't know the value of one's anger.Actually he was much weaker player than me.So I should have surely wins that match, but their comes a rules which is specific to my college.
Since it was a free tournament the players don't has to pay money to play at the tournament so the Chess officials didn't even bothered to bring chess clock to all the matches of the tournament.But here comes a twist.
The rules of the match was to play 1 hours between the two players regardless of how many time individual player uses at his disposal.The total time uses by the two player will be added and their sum should be equal to one hours.the winner shall be declared by typical chess point system.The value of the rook was given five point , Bishop three points and pawn one point etc.
So after some opening lines I miss one tactical elements and he was able to exchange my rook to his bishop.After that he became selfish and acted cowardly by not playing his moves fast and used to spend and waste time unnecessary by waiting for a long time and by doing that he was also able to eat up my time because he knows he would win by two points if he managed to stay two points clear above me till the time limits over.So he didn't even bothered to play his moves afterwards. In some sense he was a cheater also, which I felt during the match and after the match.When I asked him to play his moves first during the match he said that he was thinking hard about a good move and after the match which I lost and was complaining about the match rules to the Chess officials my opponents came and said to me that I lost because I blunder a piece and not because that he was afraid to grind out the match because of fear of losing it.
So what are my chances of actually winning against him?: i see my chances are nill.I cannot post the game because they also didn't have papers to write the Chess moves which me and my opponents made during the match but anyways who cares when my opponents didn't wanted to move his pieces 
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Jan 29, 2016
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#26
He was very much a cheater. Tournaments should be done by a certain time per individual.
Feb 1, 2016
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#27
richie_and_oprah wrote:
JamieDelarosa wrote:
When the site becomes overrun with engine users, it will collapse.
It is already there and has not collapsed.
It could be worse.
Feb 1, 2016
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#28
Marignon wrote:
Jamie,
First thing first: everyone needs to read something about the author of this article
http://polarbearspalaver.blogspot.ru/2011/06/blacklist-of-active-known-chess.html
Second: Capablanca never met Stalin. You can also check the games of 1935 and 1936 Moscow tournaments and see that talks about quick draws are not true.
As always, you quote dubious sourses without due research.
The source, to the best of my knowledge, is recorded by Edward Winter, quoting to former Mrs. Olga Capablanca:
In C.N. 4950 Francis E.W. Ogle (Medwood, NJ, USA) referred to reports that Capablanca complained to Stalin that Russian players were cheating in a 1930s tournament in Russia, and in that same item we commented that the Cuban’s widow, Olga Capablanca Clark, had mentioned the subject to us a number of times. For example, on 26 July 1989 she wrote to us:
‘It is little known, I believe, that Stalin came to see Capablanca play, hiding behind a drapery. This happened in Moscow in 1936. Capa had mentioned it to me en passant, so I am a bit hazy about the details, such as who had accompanied Stalin – seems to me it was Krylenko. However, the gist of this encounter remains quite clear in my mind.
Capa said to Stalin: “Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score.”
According to Capa, Stalin took it good-naturedly. He smiled and promised to take care of the situation.
He did.
From then on the cheating had stopped and Capablanca had won the tournament all by himself. This was an important conquest, proving to the world that Capablanca returned to his own great form.
As he told it to me Capa added: “I had promised you to be again the best chessplayer in the world. So I have done it for you.”’
What do Russian sources (chess and non-chess) say about whether Stalin was indeed present at Moscow, 1936 (and/or Moscow, 1935)?
Feb 1, 2016
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#29
From the same article quoted in the opening post:
After World War II, there may have been an effort by the Russians to execute Paul Keres for playing in German tournaments during the war, but Mikhail Botvinnik may have intervened to prevent this. Keres may have owed Botvinnik his life. In 1948, in the world championship match-tournament, Paul Keres (1916-1975) may have been ordered by the Soviets to throw his games to Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship. Keres played well against his three other rivals, but lost his first four games to Botvinnik. Years later, Botvinnik gave an interview stating that Stalin had given orders for Keres and Smyslov to lose to Botvinnik so that Botvinnik would become world champion.
Feb 1, 2016
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#30
Someone commented earlier about Garry Kasparov's touch-move faux pas.
A humorous account of a similar situation is found here:
In 1967, Grandmaster Milan Matulovic (1935-2013) of Yugoslavia was playing against Istvan Bilek (1932-2010) in the 9th round at the Interzonal in Sousse, Tunisia. Matulovic made a losing move with his bishop (38.Bf3??), pressed his chess clock, and soon realized he had made a mistake. So he took back his bishop move, moved his king (38.Kg1), and only then said “J’Adoube” (“I adjust” – which is said before adjusting pieces on a square). Matulovic then wrote his move on his score sheet as if nothing happened. Bilek went to the tournament director to protest, but Matulovic replied, “But I said j’adoube!” There was an argument, but the tournament director, having only Bilek’s word against Matulovic, refused to require Matulovic to make his original move with his bishop, as the rules of chess state. Bilek protested three times to the tournament director, but was ignored. The game ended in a draw. After this incident, even the Yugoslav players shunned Matulovic. Ever since this incident, Matulovic has been referred as “J’adoubovic.” A few days after the game with Bilek, Matulovic choked on a bone and had to be taken to a doctor. From then on, the joke in the tournament was that the doctor couldn’t find a bone, but the world “j’adoube” was found stuck in Matulovic’s throat.
The Sousse Interzonal was probably one of the worst ever FIDE competitions. That was the one Fischer quit while leading!
Feb 1, 2016
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#31
And another funny one:
In 1970, at the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, Mark Taimanov was paired with Milan (J’adoubovic) Matulovic in the final round. It was alleged that Taimanov or his Soviet Federation paid Matulovic $300 to lose the game so that Taimanov would qualify for the 1971 Candidates matches. Taimanov needed a win to qualify. Matulovic showed up 20 minutes late, lingered at the board, looked at the previous day’s tournament bulletin, then finally made a move. Matulovic, normally a slow player, played at a fast pace and lost after about an hour of play. Taimanov qualified for the Candidates match and then lost to Bobby Fischer in Vancouver, with a 0-6 score. In 1971, Matulovic was sentenced to 9 months for killing a woman by dangerous driving. No evidence that he said “J’adoube” before hitting her.
Feb 2, 2016
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#32
Jamie, there are no references to such meeting outside Olga Capablanca's memories.
I personally find them 100% improbable for the following reasons:
1) Stalin (unlike Lenin) was not interested in chess. He read all notable contemporary novels and books, had a good taste for drama and opera, but chess was out of his scope. He never met Botwinnik or other Soviet leading chessplayers. The highest authority for them was Molotov.
2) Stalin's life and his meetings are meticulously documented. We have lists of all people he met day-by-day. There is no Capablanka. So what we have are the phantasies of a very old woman.
And the accusation is absolutely untrue, I urge you again to examine the games.
Feb 2, 2016
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#33
Olga Capablanca had been previously married to a White Russian army officer. She remained well-versed in Soviet-era politics. Stalin may not have been intenselky interested in chess, but his confidante, Krylenko, was.
Jose Raul Capablanca also held diplomatic credentials from Cuba as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. It would have been perfectly reasonable for Stalin to have met with him as a courtesy.
The cross table of the 1936 Moscow tournament shows that none of the Soviets in the tournament, nor Lililenthal (a Hungarian living in USSR and soon-to-be Soviet citizen), nor Flohr (a Czechoslovakian Jew born in the Ukraine, and later a Soviet citizen), dared to defeat Botvinnik.
I am reviewing the games slowly. There is nothing, at this point, which disproves Capablanca's allegation.
Fantastic topic! Couldn't stop reading it including in the site, to see the complete combo! The one which I was gasped the most was that ones with more than 1 IP to improve their ratings matching themselves!
Feb 3, 2016
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#35
marcusrg, that practice is called "ratings manipulation," and is also a form of cheating.
It is fairly easy to spot this type of cheating, because every game played is recorded in the players' game archive. Usually,a staff member, rather than the Cheat Detection Team, will simply look at the evidence reported, and close the cheater accounts. No "cheater badge" will be shown on the closed account - that is reserved for engine use.
It is very nice to find a good chess site like this, Jamie. It is good to know that a serious work is beeing done here. Here I intend to improve my chess skills, and I am also learning and reading all the articles and forums one by one, so many interesting things to read and to know! For example, I read about the movie Pawn Sacrifice, and I had watched it today. By the way, there is a moment in that movie that Fischer complaints that the russians were drawing their games to stay strong in the points! :-)
Feb 3, 2016
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#37
That complaint by Fischer was the basis of his famous article in the American sports magazine, "Sport Illustrated."
More about that here: http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4564/full
Good evening Jamie. I'd like to know what you think of this cheating method:
https://www.chess.com/blog/OBIT/gain-rating-points-in-online-chess-guaranteed
Feb 3, 2016
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#39
JamieDelarosa wrote:
This topic wasn't really intended to be about this site. But whatever.
And the discussion should really not continue down that road either. The historical discussion is interesting to read but if people aren't careful the topic will get locked 
@AaronGo: I thought someone might have bought that crown for her to resign a won game!