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Telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday 26 March 2013

Chess cheat: how the French chess scam worked

The suspected system required French grandmaster and federation member Cyril Marzolo to follow the game in real time via internet from France.

The system required French grandmaster and federation member Cyril Marzolo to follow the game in real time via internet from France.
Cyril Marzolo followed the tournament on the internet from his home 
Henry Samuel
By , Paris
7:00AM GMT 25 Mar 2011
It is thought he logged the moves into a powerful chess computer, then texted via mobile phone its suggested moves to Arnaud Hauchard, the team captain, who was present in the tournament room in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The moves were encrypted as codes hidden within phoney telephone numbers, the authorities claimed.
For example, the numbers 63 and 68 within a 10-digit number signified a move from F3 on the chessboard to F8.
The captain then allegedly communicated these to 19-year old Sébastien Feller, fifth in the world junior chess rankings, during his match.
He is thought to have done this by standing next to a particular player at a given table. Each contestant represented a pre-agreed letter and a number. For example, the first player represented A1, the second B2 etc. The captain first stood by one player to convey the letter, then another to give the accompanying number.
Mr Feller had only to briefly check his captain's movements to know which piece to move and where, the authorities claimed.
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