caught cheating but wearing a helmet

[bdbafh]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/tc_nm/india_chess_dc_1

a few tasty snippets:

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10
years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's
wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
....
Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials
discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which
he always pulled over his ears.
....
"We have banned him for 10 years," he told Reuters. "We wanted to send
a clear message to such people."

-bdbafh

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article om>,
"bdbafh" > wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/tc_nm/india_chess_dc_1
>
> a few tasty snippets:
>
> NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10
> years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's
> wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
> ...
> Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials
> discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which
> he always pulled over his ears.
> ...
> "We have banned him for 10 years," he told Reuters. "We wanted to send
> a clear message to such people."
>
> -bdbafh

Believe it or not, there have been several recent cheating scandals in
chess. The MO here seems like that of the others.

The availability of commercial chess programs that, running on modern
PCs, are better than most amateur chess players has made the temptation
pretty great.

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to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

[Davey Crockett]

"bdbafh" > writes:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/tc_nm/india_chess_dc_1
>
> a few tasty snippets:
>
> NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10
> years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's
> wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
> ...
> Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials
> discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which
> he always pulled over his ears.
> ...
> "We have banned him for 10 years," he told Reuters. "We wanted to send
> a clear message to such people."
>
> -bdbafh
>

Shoulda been stoned

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[Donald Munro]

bdbafh wrote:
>> NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10
>> years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's
>> wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> The availability of commercial chess programs that, running on modern
> PCs, are better than most amateur chess players has made the temptation
> pretty great.

I see a market for a chess computer implant:
http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2006/02/molecular_compu.html

Perhaps Bruyneel could even implant a few controller implants into the
Discovery riders so as to be able to control them from his laptop.