Sad case of high school chess cheating

The USCF's web site shows the last event being the Virginia Scholastic & Collegiate Championship of 2012. His membership is lapsed.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Not as skilled as Ivanov

It seems he is now attending George Mason University:

https://www.facebook.com/clark.smiley.1?fref=ts

I hope all of his professors keep a close eye on him when he takes his exams.

As a tournament player, I know how hard it is to win just a couple games in a row. And he had eight tournaments with clean sweeps?  A 45-3 record?  And his blitz rating is only about 1000? 

Give me a break.  If all of that doesn't indicate he's been cheating during this entire span, nothing does.

I hope the USCF does ban him for life.

Of course, I'd really like to see him reimburse all of the players he took money from, the ones that would have won some money had he not cheated.  If he did that, I'd forgive the little cheater and allow him back in the USCF.  (If it was up to me, which of course it's not.)

Hold it for a second....u shouldn't cast cheating in such a (-) way - at this point. This is being too short-sighted. Think early stages and see it as a testing ground to combat future more elaborate methods....almost like a beta testing center, wouldn't u think ?  

Awesome!

He knew exactly what he was doing:)

haha my OTB results have been so bad the last 4 years that I'd be the last person to be accused of cheating

Unless you're a worse cheater than chess player.

lol well then atleast there'd still be hope for my legit chess skills ;p

Very interesting article.  As a society, we should be more aware of how much technology is necessary.  Using technology (eNotate) to log in moves of a chess game is rediculous.  Human beings are perfectly capable of using a pencil and paper.  If the tree huggers out there want to cry about it, then we can just go ahead and use recycled paper.

If competitive chess is going to keep moving forward, tournament organizers are going to have to ban any form of technology in a designated tournament site.  Human beings have survived thousands of years w/o cell phones, and all the other gadgets humanity has gotten itself addicted to.

The plus side of MonRoi and eNotate is that (I'm not sure about this capability in eNotate) they can transmit games live. Also, I go to some of Muradian's tournaments. He and some others have a rule that devices must be put on the table, and the opponent can ask to see it. I have witnessed a lot of sandbagging, but no cheating in OTB.

Good catch. I meant computer assisted cheating.

is it hard to cheat in chess tournaments?

Stop bumping dead threads unless you have something significant to add...

"By pushing all the right buttons on a good chess engine, any Kardashian sister could conceivably checkmate Fischer." 

Is this guy kidding? Fischer would tear Houdini, Stockfish and Rybka to pieces in a blindfold simul. :-)

I tried to cheat once, but i brought a toaster to a tournament, instead of a chess engine.

Why even alow electronics at the tournaments?