Metro News, England
Thursday, January 11, 2007

One of the world’s leading chess players has been accused of cheating – with a mobile phone.
Umakanth Sharma, 25, was banned for ten years after a wireless earpiece was found in his hat during a competition.

It is believed the device enabled Sharma to receive instructions from a pal who was using a computer programme to figure out the best moves.

This scandal has never been seen in the 1,500-year history of chess.

… The scandal is just the latest to rock the normally geneteel world of chess.

In June last year two grandmasters reportedly came to blows over female chess beauty Arianne Caoili, 19.

… And in October last year the title holders of chess’s two rival world federations had a bitter dispute – over toilets.

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