23-06-2013, 10:13 PM
Couple of replies to Andy Burnett
“The recent articles which mention that he 'doesn't move at all at the board or from the board during games' provides a big hint for where we should be looking. Probably some visual technology coupled with sensors/transmitters of some kind?! The technology exists of course, it's the practicalities of using them during a chess game which would have to be overcome.”
Yes though if he isn’t using the tournament transmission after all, I think we’re talking much bigger bucks for a setup that would work well enough. Someone asked why there are no video clips of Ivanov in play. Why have we only got videos of Lilov to look at? Strange that while telling us about all the fancy ways he must be cheating, the Bulgarians haven’t managed to organise a simple video camera themselves.
“Access to computer records, e-mails/texts/etc. and financial records would provide leads. Interviewing Ivanov, his friends/family/associates might result from this . If evidence existed it would be found pretty quickly I would imagine.”
Good points - he has won money and is therefore presumably under suspicion of fraud as you suggested. Though, he must have an accomplice who would presumably have kept the trail from leading to him. If he is cheating he’s done such a superb technical job that I think he’d have covered all the usual mundane avenues too. The perfect crime!?
“Instead of banning him, it would be useful for an organiser to insist that he analyse his games afterwards a la the London Classic? In real-time in front of an audience! Then we'd see how strong a player he really is!”
Yeah - I also wondered how he expects to function in Bulgaria, doesn’t he move in chess circles, analyze his games afterwards? Maybe he does, and that’s why the GM’s are so certain!
“The recent articles which mention that he 'doesn't move at all at the board or from the board during games' provides a big hint for where we should be looking. Probably some visual technology coupled with sensors/transmitters of some kind?! The technology exists of course, it's the practicalities of using them during a chess game which would have to be overcome.”
Yes though if he isn’t using the tournament transmission after all, I think we’re talking much bigger bucks for a setup that would work well enough. Someone asked why there are no video clips of Ivanov in play. Why have we only got videos of Lilov to look at? Strange that while telling us about all the fancy ways he must be cheating, the Bulgarians haven’t managed to organise a simple video camera themselves.
“Access to computer records, e-mails/texts/etc. and financial records would provide leads. Interviewing Ivanov, his friends/family/associates might result from this . If evidence existed it would be found pretty quickly I would imagine.”
Good points - he has won money and is therefore presumably under suspicion of fraud as you suggested. Though, he must have an accomplice who would presumably have kept the trail from leading to him. If he is cheating he’s done such a superb technical job that I think he’d have covered all the usual mundane avenues too. The perfect crime!?
“Instead of banning him, it would be useful for an organiser to insist that he analyse his games afterwards a la the London Classic? In real-time in front of an audience! Then we'd see how strong a player he really is!”
Yeah - I also wondered how he expects to function in Bulgaria, doesn’t he move in chess circles, analyze his games afterwards? Maybe he does, and that’s why the GM’s are so certain!