When Chess Cheaters Get Caught

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players often spend hours thinking about the best move that would lead them to win the game, some players have found cheating methods to achieve very questionable victories, starting with this player who challenged Grandmaster Eric Hansen to a 1 against 1 for $250 and Since this player only has a rating of 978, Eric knew this would be an easy match, but after the first moves are made, things start to look suspicious. He is playing very well and he didn't know that he knew this line and followed his opponent as soon as possible. 12 moves his King to H1 Eric knows that he is not facing a player with a rating of 900, as he is definitely a cheater.

Both players make multiple moves before Eric corners his opponent's king with his Queen and his Bishop attacking him. If Eric can win here, he will. being one of the only people to have defeated a

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cheater, but unfortunately the cheater finds the best move by moving the Rook to G1 with the idea of ​​playing G5 which after the Rook H3 would trap Eric's Queen forcing him to abandon it, but after Eric plays H6. hoping to stop G5, his opponent does it anyway, an incredibly strange move after thinking for a long time, Eric takes the pawn with his foreign bishop, after which the cheater creates a huge attack by cornering the black king before The sight of two Brooks and a lady, the trickster plays.

Queen A2 threatens to checkmate Eric's King, which Eric defends before having to give away his Queen and after a few moves loses to Queen E4 Checkmate as the King has no squares to move to after the game, The opponent was shown to have a 97 accuracy rate and was soon reported and banned on chess.com, but what happens

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a cheater like ESAT plays against the best player in the world? When world champion Magnus Carlson was playing online on a live stream, a player named Alexander K was challenging him and while watching completely normal, this player would be secretly cheating Magnus starts the game by moving his Knight to G3 to which Alexander responds moving his Pawn to F5 after making a few more moves, the game becomes a variation of the Dutch opening, but Magnus is no stranger to this and after Alexander takes his pawn, Magnus follows up with the D3 bishop attacking the knight.

Alexander defends his knight and Magnus exchanges the knight for the bishop, after which queens are exchanged while Alexander cheats. Magnus Carlsen is the real driving force here, knowing the endings of the games better. than any human and with that Magnus places the Knight on G5 threatening to bifurcate the king and the rook in a deadly attack. Alexander immediately blocks this threat by moving his king back, both players continue to develop their pieces and while the trickster has an extra pawn, Magnus is able to win quickly. this back that after a few more moves decides to take the pawn with his Knight giving Magnus a slightly better position than his opponent Alexander, although he still has more ideas up his sleeve and plays his Rook to d8 asking to exchange with Magnus, it is At this point , Magnus begins to realize how perfectly his opponent is playing and therefore takes a safer approach by moving his pawn to F3.

Both players continue to try to slowly build an advantage over each other and another set of pieces is exchanged, bringing both players closer to the goal. At the end of the game, Magnus now also realizes that he has some chance of winning, yes this guy is playing very well, but he quickly disappears

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the player moves his knight back, the best move, after which Magnus realizes that he is physically playing with a cheater, a pair of rooks are exchanged and both players move. in an extremely close finish, but while Magnus has over a minute and 30 seconds, his opponent is running out of time.

Alexander plays his Knight to D4, which Magnus brings his King closer by giving a triple attack on the night Alexander defends this again and with no way to outdo each other, both players keep moving their pieces before Alexander's time. runs out, completely destroying his chances of beating the world champion. It was later confirmed that Alexander had been using dried fish, meaning that even the world-renowned chess robot was unable to defeat Magnus Savage, but here's what. The game would be much crazier as during a charity event the world champion viswanathon Anand would face a player who cheated online.

This was nikhail kamath, an indian billionaire who became one of the richest men in the world after founding the company zeroda and his next opponent would be vishyanand now nikhil hasn. His online rating is 400, which means that statistically his chances of beating Vichy are non-existent, but as both players continue to move, it becomes obvious that Nikhil is much better than anyone would have thought. However, things are starting to look suspicious as on Nikhil's webcam it appears he is still looking at something on the side, which is a clear sign that he may be cheating, yet Anand has an advantage in the game by having a additional pawn on the board.

Vichy is up there and I think he'll find a way to turn this, but he won't. It's easy and not so clear to see how, but this advantage would disappear soon after, when it is now Nikhil who has all the threats with one night without being attacked twice along with a pawn that was about to fall, things were not looking good for the world champion. and after a few moves, his Knight to G4 to take the pawn on H4, which Anand has to stop and does so by playing his Queen to E8, putting the king in check.

At this point, the comment haters are stunned by what they're seeing. and after nikhil places the Queen on C5 with check, forcing Anand to move his King to the corner and after nikhil looks to the side once more, probably looking at a motor, he plays the best move from Rook to C1, which Anand blocks with his Knight when the Keel is completely winning in this game, his time is running out and Anand knows he can mark it. Nikhil plays his queen to D1 by threatening to take Nikhil's knight with a checkmate on the back rank, with Nikhil only having 13 seconds left on the clock.

Anand has the decision to win. He wins the game on time or he quits, which will probably expose Nikhil as a cheater. She quickly calculates this idea before deciding to quit, which after Nikhil wins, she shows no emotion at all. Later, Nikhil was exposed as a cheater on chess.com and his account was banned, which made him apologize to the entire chess community.