At the 2007 World Open, more cheating accusations took place. When big money is one the line, anything can happen. Even though nothing was found, is it fair for players to subject themselves to sometimes baseless accusations just because he/she is doing well? How do you suggest to eliminate the cheating problems at the World Open?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Anytime you involve money, there will be possibilities of cheating. I don’t think anything will be done to change this. Goichberg is making millions with his CCA and it’s not his interest to change it.
If it involves move-matching evidence, send it to me at regan@cse.buffalo.edu—and don’t publish reports of match rates unless backed by logs of the tests that were done.
1. everybody should strip and put on a chess uniform sponsored by the event, bug free.
2. play in an FBI facility where all incoming transmission is stopped, checked, distorted.
3. play a prescribed opening, assigned through a lot in a sealed envelope
4. roll dice each game to decide who gets white
5. keep the players chained to the playing tables at all times.
Sadly without concrete proof, the assusations will always be held as baseless. The only solution is smarter monitoring of all players. Accusations without proof should be banned. They serve no purpose other than to create an atmosphere of bad blood.
They should rename tourament to World Sandbagger’s Open!
In class sections you always have at least 10 or more sandbagger’s playing two levels above class section they joined making a true class player no chance to win big money prize.
As far as cheating goes, better steps need to be taken to stop this. It is difficult in a World Open type tournament to enforce anti-cheating measures effectively.
1. Create a new rating system from scratch. A key provision of the new system would be that a player’s rating may remain unchanged or go up; but may NEVER go down. This would also provide increased incentive for players to compete in more events.
2. Accusations by one player against another should be deemed as “unacceptable” behavior and dealt with in an appropriate manner.
3. In big-money events a private third party should be hired for the specific task of accumulating and documenting evidence against any and all suspected cheaters.
4. Proven cheaters should be banned for life from leaving any (of the organizer’s) chess events with any monetary prize.
whg
I always thought the HB Global did an excellent job of preventing sandbaggers and other cheaters.
– Enrique
I see no accusations here. Again, you’ve asked us to comment on a story without telling us exactly what the story is. That’s a bad habit to encourage.