JustinHorton wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:13 am
Paul McKeown wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:22 am
I'm not sure that the win against the WGM would be cast iron evidence of cheating if the player were rated 2000+, as it appears to me that the WGM faced an opening gambit she were inadequately prepared for, whereupon she made an early bad choice (6... d5) after which her position looked absolutely untenable, and duly got smashed. Surely a player of your standard (170ish in old money) would expect to give their opponent a complete battering after 6... d5 and un-developing all their opponent's pieces within the first ten moves, whilst completing their own development?
Admittedly, seeing a 1600 player give such a comprehensive display does raise questions.
Seeing the game against Nick Pert, though. That really is dreadful. The 1600 played like a blithe spirit in the opening casting aside tempi as if he had not a care in the world, and then in the middle-game proceeded to batter a GM to blithereens in what can only be described as a game of two halves. A very clear example of assisted play, indeed, one can assume.
All of that looks right to me, but of course the problem is that it was the same player in each instance, which makes it harder to think of these two games as two separate cases. I missed this controversy at the time - did anything come of it?
that player and another player (both from Limerick chess club) were banned by chess.com
mention in the guardian here: scroll down
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... ampionship
but
synopsis here from the main organiser:
Hi All,
I’m guessing that most people reading this will know who I am, and before I go on with my post here, I’d just like to point out that I am speaking privately here, I’m not speaking on behalf on the Bunratty Organising Committee. I’d like clarify a few things here, if I may….
• Bunratty announced before the event that prizes would not be paid out until up to 2 weeks after the event, this was to allow time for Chess.com to do their “deep dive” data analysis of the event
• While the event was going on, no member of the Bunratty Committee was involved in the running of the event in any way, Chess.com ran the event for us
• After Chess.com finished their analysis of the event, two players had their accounts closed due to breaches of the Chess.com Fair Play Policy
• One of these was Hari Prasad who withdrew from the event after his round 5 victory over Nick Pert GM, he was not ejected from the event
• The other player was Michal Surowka who did complete the event, ending up on 6/9
• As far as I know, both players are members of the Limerick Chess Club
I’d also like to say that it’s a bit disappointing to read through 3 pages of posts and find the only subject being discussed is possible cheating in the event. All the committee worked very hard to put this event together and we’ve had some lovely emails thanking us for this. We even had one of the prize winners refuse the prize, thanking us for a very enjoyable event and asking us to have a few drinks on him as a thank you. Personally, I think Diana Mirza’s Twitch channel coverage of her participation in the event was very good and captured the spirit of the event very well.