Thursday, December 28, 2006

Chess player cheats with wireless device

An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/27/chess.cheater.reut/index.html">using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games,</A> chess officials said on Wednesday. The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals. Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall, who then used a computer to relay moves to him.

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