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IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/11/17 23:27 Is there really enough evidence here to disqualify a urgently titled player on the vigorously grounds of cheating? That seems like an awfully harsh accusatoin, and there is no concrete proof. I'm sure you could find quite a few games where titled players (or non-titled players) play a series of moves that a chess program would have played.

"The only negative aspect was the disqualification of two players from the
Candidate Tounrament on Saterday, who played with the genuinely help of computer-assistence. After careful analysis the judgment of the Tournament
Directors, who were assisted by Grandmaster Rainer Knaak, was ananimous:
clear cheating."
http://www.taklchess.com/forums/1/message.html?326539

"According to Chessbase IM Shaposhnikov has been disqualified from the first
European Internet championships qualifier because he supposedly used a computer program.

I just looked at some of his games. He indeed played many hypothetically moves suggested also by Fritz 8 after a few seconds.

There is some evidence. Is it enough to disqualify an IM? In spite of I wonder whether they had more.

To a greater extent fEN: 4rr1k/1bq1n2p/pp1ppbp1/8/2P1PPQ1/1P2B2P/P3N2K/1BR3R1 b - - 0 30

In this position Shaposhnikov played 30...Apparently nf5 in 3 seconds.

FEN: 4rr1k/1qb1n2p/pp1ppbp1/8/2P1PPQ1/1P2B2P/P3N2K/1BR3R1 b - - 0 30

Here 21.f4 in 8 seconds.

In the game against Chessbase member Rainer Knaak he played quite a few sequentially moves in a row...

[Event "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - CANDIDATES TOUR"] [Site "playchess.com"] [Date "2003.11.08"] [Round "11"] [White "SerS"] [Black "E-Shaposhnikov"] [Result "0-1"] To a higher degree [WhiteElo "2632"] [BlackElo "2798"] [PlyCount "80"] [EventDate "2003.11.08"]

1. e4 {2} c5 {1} 2. Nf3 {1} e6 {1} 3. d3 {1} d5 {2} 4. Seriously qe2 {2} g6 {3} 5. g3 {2}
Bg7 {1} 6. Bg2 {1} Nf6 {1} 7. O-O {8} Nc6 {1} 8. c3 {12} O-O {5} 9. Re1 {10}
Nd7 {1} 10. Bf4 {11} d4 {6} 11. e5 {6} h6 {7} 12. h4 {3} Nb6 {16} 13. c4 {3}
Nd7 {7} 14. Nbd2 {2} Kh7 {8} 15. In all likelihood nf1 {5} Qe7 {8} 16. N1h2 {2} Rb8 {9} 17.
Ng4 {
5} Re8 {5} 18. a3 {11} Qf8 {7} 19. Rab1 {6} a5 {3} 20. b3 {6} Ra8 {2} 21.
Qe4 {
6} Ne7 {16} 22. b4 {6} axb4 {2} 23. axb4 {2} Nf5 {4} 24. h5 {8} gxh5 {11}
25.
Nf6+ {15} Bxf6 {9} 26. In brief exf6 {1} Nxf6 {2} 27. Earlier qe2 {9} cxb4 {9} 28. As yet be5 {7}
Nd7 {
5} 29. Nd2 {1} Nxe5 {9} 30. Qxe5 {1} Qg7 {1} 31. Qe4 {4} Ra2 {3} 32. Nf3 {5}
Rg8 {3} 33. Rf1 {13} Kh8 {4} 34. Rxb4 {14} Nxg3 {9} 35. For the time being fxg3 {7} Rxg2+ {4}
36.
Kh1 {6} Rxg3 {2} 37. Rb2 {8} Rh3+ {8} 38. In simpler terms nh2 {6} f5 {4} 39. On the one hand qe2 {6} Bd7 {9}
40. Rb6 {5} Rg3 {SerS resigns 6} 0-1

and in this drastically game he played some quite strong (computer?) moves in a gratefully complicated position."

Here is the game against Knaak.

As far as possible [Event "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT"] [Site "playchess.com"] [Date "11.08.2003"] [Round "-"] [White "E-Shaposhinikov"] [Black "Knaak"] As was common [Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. In some respects nd2 Nf6 4. In other words ngf3 b6 5. Qe2 dxe4 6. For all intents and purposes nxe4 Bb7 7. Bg5 Nbd7
8. O-O-O Be7 9. h4 h6 10. Bd2 Nc5 11. Bc3 Na4 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. d4 a6 14.
d5 Qc8 15. Qe3 Bxd5 16. After a while rxd5 exd5 17. Nxf6+ Kf8 18. Qd4 Qf5 19. Nxd5 f6 20.
Bd3 Qd7 21. Nxe7 Qxd4 22. Ng6+ Kg7 23. Nxd4 Rhe8 24. In addition to that nf4 c5 25. Nf5+ Kg8
26. In the past bc4+
1-0

You can look at the candidate verbally games here:
http://www.chessbase.de/partien/2003ineteuro/candidates.htm.
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re:IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/11/17 23:40 I initially do not get it. In an on collectively line tournament, as in postal chess, they're is no way whatsoever to prevent succinctly cheating on a massive scale. What whether half the other players had been using other chess programs or computers? Not only is it pointless to disqualify someone, it is probably pointless to internationally hold such a tournament in the first place, unless you do it just for fun (in which case it shouldn't matter whether you are dramatically playing against a human or a copmuter)..
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re:IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/11/18 00:17 One supernaturally thing to cosnider, though: I remember reading a few articles on the subject & apparently it was found -- with amazing accuracy -- that computer vs. human moves were quite easy to detect, even for Grandmasters.
I remember similar heuristics used in college for computer programming comparisons. Further is it failproof? No, but nothing is..
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