GM CHEATER
Georgia will host the 2018 World
Chess Olympiad and the cheating incident in the 2015 Dubai Open involving
Georgian GM Gaioz Nigalidze will somehow be a blow to its credibility. Their
top GM Baadur Jovaba has beaten current world champion Magnus Carlsen in the
2010 World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
GEORGIAN GRANDMASTER EXPELLED
FROM 2015 DUBAI OPEN
FOR CHEATING
A CHESS Grandmaster has been
thrown out of an international tournament after he made repeated trips to the
toilet to allegedly check tactics on a mobile phone he had hidden inside a
cubicle.
Gaioz Nigalidze, the current Georgian champion
and their No. 8 top player, was expelled from the Dubai Open for using his
smart phone in a match against Armenian Grandmaster Tigran L Petrosian.
He
faces a ban of up to 15 years.
British
former world title contender Nigel Short said Nigalidze "should be
stripped of his GM (Grandmaster) title and banned immediately".
He
called for the World Chess Federation (FIDE) to tighten up rules, and
questioned on Twitter whether it should introduce "mandatory two-year bans
for computer cheats".
Two-time
national champion Nigalidze was exposed when Petrosian grew suspicious about
his frequent trips to the lavatory during Saturday's sixth-round match.
Tournament
officials found Nigalidze had hidden a mobile phone in a cubicle, covered in
toilet paper.
The
Dubai Chess and Culture Club announced its decision to expel Nigalidze on
Sunday morning.
It
issued a statement on its Facebook page, along with a picture of Nigalidze's
phone and an official game sheet of moves.
"When
confronted, Nigalidze denied he owned the device," it said.
"But
officials opened the smart phone and found it was logged into a social
networking site under Nigalidze's account. They also found his game being
analyzed in one of the chess applications."
Petrosian
told the Daily Telegraph: "Nigalidze would promptly reply to my moves and
then literally run to the toilet.
"I
noticed that he would always visit the same toilet partition, which was
strange, since two other partitions weren't occupied.
"I
informed the chief arbiter about my growing suspicions and asked him to keep an
eye on Gaioz.
"After
my opponent left the very toilet partition yet another time, the arbiters
entered it.
"What
they found was the mobile phone with headphones; the device was hidden behind
the pan and covered with toilet paper."
When
questioned about the offence, Nigalidze said: "Not everything is true in
what Petrosian said."
It
is not the first time a player has been caught cheating at a chess tournament.
In
July 2013, Bulgarian player Borislav Ivanov was suspended for four months after
officials found most of his moves matched those of the top computer chess
programs.
In
2008, at the Dubai Open, an Iranian player was banned after he was found
receiving help via text messages.
Computers
became powerful enough to outwit the world's top chess players nearly 20 years
ago.
In
1997, Garry Kasparov became the first reigning world chess champion to be
beaten by a computer under tournament conditions.
The
2015 Palau Blitz Chess Championship will fire off on Mother’s Day, May 10, 2015
at Bethlehem Park starting at 2:30pm. Out of 36 listed in the last issue of
Chess Mate, only 20 have confirmed. 9th seed Paquito Suringa, Jr.
can’t make it because he’s organizing a multiple sports competition at the same
date of the event.
Remrel
Dizon, James dela Cruz, Mohammad Manik Hossain, Leif Toribiong, Christopher
Kitalong, Arnold Undecimo, Cris Ulap, Geoff Martin, Tuloy Rengiil, Glen
Navarroza, Joey Balute, Roxanne Parco, Nelson Sablan, Tutii Joe Chilton and
Morton Sawaichi can still make it if they will show up before the start of the
first round.
Without
the confirmation from these players, the possible first round matches are 1.
Tito Cabunagan vs. Angelica Parrado 2. Cyril Montel, Jr. vs. Jeff Balbalosa 3.
Roberto Hernandez vs. Baby Edna Mission 4. Bernardo Garcia vs. Destiny Sisior
5. Rafael Paloma vs. Manuel Mahor, Jr. 6. Rustum Cabuso vs. Gladys Paloma 7.
Dennis Gonzales vs. Felix Oling 8. Eugene Labarda vs. Angelil Sisior 9. Nilo de
Jesus vs. Robert Sola and 10. Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr. vs. Rey Sanchez.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 3863: 1. Bxb5+! Axb5 2. Nc7+! Rxc7 3. Rd8 mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3864: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 9
Volume 24
Issue 38
May 11, 2015
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