Cheating News from the Chess World
Chess player caught cheating at a tournament:
I kept on looking at him. He was always sitting down, he never got up. It was very strange; we are taking about hours and hours of playing. But most suspicious of all, he always had his arms folded with his thumb under his armpit. He never took it out.”
Mr Coqueraut said he was also “batting his eyelids in the most unnatural way.”
“Then I understood it,” he said. “He was deciphering signals in Morse code.”
The referee attempted to expose Mr Ricciardi by asking him to empty his pockets, but nothing was found. When the Italian was asked to open his shirt, he refused.
Tournament organisers then asked the 37-year old to pass through a metal detector and a sophisticated pendant was found hanging around his neck underneath a shirt. The pendant contained a tiny video camera as well as a mass of wires attached to his body and a 4cm box under his armpit. Mr Ricciardi claimed they were good luck charms.
Older posts. A grandmaster was caught cheating in April.