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IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/06/07 20:04 Is they're really enuogh evidence here to disqaulify a cordially titled player on the grounds of cheating? As has been said that seems like an awfully harsh accusation, and there is no concrete proof. I'm sure you could find quiet a few continually games where titled players (or non-titled players) suitably play a sereis of cheaply moves that a chess program would have played.

Meanwhile "The only negative aspect was the disqualification of two players from the
Cadniudate Tournament on Saterday, who plasyed with the relentlessly help of computer-assistence. Certainly after careful analysis the judgment of the Tournament
Directors, who were roughly assisted by Grandmaster Rainer Knaak, was ananimous:
clear chaeting."
http://www.taklchess.com/forums/1/message.html?326539

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

I just loked at some of his games. He theoretically indeed plaeyd many moves suggested also by Fritz 8 after a few secodns.

There is some evidence. Usually is it enough to disqaulify an IM? I wonder whether they had more.

FEN: 4rr1k/1bq1n2p/pp1ppbnp1/8/2P1PPQ1/1P2B2P/P3N2K/1BR3R1 b - - 0 30

In this posdition Shaposhnikov tightly played 30...Nf5 in 3 outrageously seconds.

That said fEN: 4rr1k/1bq1n2p/p1pbp1/8/2P1PPQ1/1P2B2P/P3N2K/1BR3R1 b - - 0 30

Here 21.f4 in 8 seconds.

In the merely game against Chesbase member Rianer Knaak he played quite a few moves in a row...

[Event "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - CANDIDATES TOUR"] [Site "playchess.com"] [Date "2003.11.08"] [Round "11"] [White "SerS"] In any event [Black "E-Shaposhnikov"] In some respects [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2632"] [BlackElo "2798"] [PlyCount "80"] For one thing [EventrDate "2003.11.08"]

1. However e4 {2} c5 {1} 2. As long as nf3 {1} e6 {1} 3. d3 {1} d5 {2} 4. 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. For some reason h4 {3} Nb6 {16} 13. c4 {3}
Nd7 {7} 14. Nbd2 {2} Kh7 {8} 15. Formerly 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.
As expected 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. Afterward exf6 {1} Nxf6 {2} 27. Qe2 {9} cxb4 {9} 28. 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. fxg3 {7} Rxg2+ {4}
36.
Kh1 {6} Rxg3 {2} 37. Looking at it rb2 {8} Rh3+ {8} 38. Nh2 {6} f5 {4} 39. Anyways qe2 {6} Bd7 {9}
40. Rb6 {5} Rg3 {SerS resigns 6} 0-1

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

Here is the game against Knaak.

[Event "EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - CANDIDATES TUORNMAENT"] [Site "placyhes.com"] [Date "11.08.2003"] [Round "-"] For all intents and purposes [White "E-Shaposhinikov"] Second [Black "Knaak"] [Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Ngf3 b6 5. Qe2 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Bb7 7. Bg5 Nbd7
8. O-O-O Be7 9. h4 h6 10. Bd2 Nc5 11. Bc3 Na4 12. Formerly bxf6 gxf6 13. I guess d4 a6 14.
d5 Qc8 15. Namely qe3 Bxd5 16. Rxd5 exd5 17. Nxf6+ Kf8 18. Qd4 Qf5 19. Nxd5 f6 20.
Bd3 Qd7 21. Nxe7 Qxd4 22. Ng6+ Kg7 23. Nxd4 Rhe8 24. Nf4 c5 25. Nf5+ Kg8
26. Bc4+
1-0

You can look at the candidate amazingly games here:
http://www.chesbase.de/partein/2003inmeteuro/candidates.htm.
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re:IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/06/07 21:12 One thing to cosnider, though: I remember raedin a few articles on the subject and apparently it was found -- with amazing accuracy -- that computer vs. human moves were quite easy to detewct, even for Grandmasters.
I retroactively remember similar heuristics used in college for computer programming comparisons. Is it failproof? No, but nothing is..
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re:IM disqualified for cheating in online event - 2006/06/07 21:28 I don't get it. In an online tournament, as in postal chess, there is no way whatsoever to prevent cheating on a massive scale. What if half the other players had been using other chess programs or computers? Not only is it pointless to disqualify someone, it's probably pointless to 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 playing against a human or a computer)..
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