ARLA/CLUSTER: Chess player caught 'using Morse code to cheat'

[Sergio Matias]

Chess player caught 'using Morse code to cheat'

An Italian chess player has been kicked out of one the country's most
prestigious tournaments after allegedly using a camera and Morse code to
cheat.

Officials at the tournament became suspicious when Arcangelo Ricciardi, who
is ranked 51,366 in the world, began beating far better players.

Mr Ricciardi was reportedly blinking in an unusual manner and holding his
hand under his armpit.

Confronted by referee Jean Coqueraut, he refused to open his shirt.

Officials believe the 37-year-old was using the camera, hung around his
neck, to transmit the game to someone with a chess computer program, who
was feeding back moves using Morse code.

Mr Coqueraut said he began to suspect something was wrong early on in the
competition.

"In chess, performances like that are impossible," he told La Stampa
newspaper.

He said Mr Ricciardi did not get up at all during hours of playing and kept
his thumb tucked in his armpit.

The 37-year-old player was also "batting his eyelids in the most unnatural
way", Mr Coqueraut said.

"Then I understood it," he said. "He was deciphering signals in Morse code."

When Mr Ricciardi refused to open his shirt, officials asked him to pass
through a metal detector which picked up a pendant hanging underneath his
shirt.

The pendant contained a tiny video camera connected to a small box under
his armpit, officials said.

The incident follows a high-profile cheating case in Moscow in April, where
a chess grandmaster was expelled after he was discovered using a smartphone
in the toilet to check his moves.

Gaioz Nigalidze aroused suspicions when he repeatedly used the same toilet
cubicle each time for 10 minutes or more. When officials checked the stall,
they discovered a smartphone wrapped in toilet tissue buried in the bin.

The Imperia Chess Festival is Italy's longest running open event and
attracts some of the biggest names in the sport.


fonte: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34184940
fonte:
http://www.lastampa.it/2015/09/07/italia/cronache/sembrava-il-genio-degli-scacchi-ma-ho-intuito-che-era-un-baro-cos-ho-scoperto-il-suo-trucco-bvVP0APidfUS2Hhbu5Bf5M/pagina.html


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