Is this good enough for you, OmarBadu? Is 6 hours old too old?

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-12-27T131221Z_01_DEL165454_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-CHESS1.xml

Reminds me of students at my university who were caught cheating using a blue tooth headset under their headgear!

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"Who knew you could cheat at chess? Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:12 AM ET NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone's wireless device to win games, 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, Indian chess federation secretary D.V. Sundar said on Wednesday. "We have banned him for 10 years," he told Reuters. "We wanted to send a clear message to such people." Chess officials were also probing whether another player had similar advantages through such illegal means, he added."

12/28/2006 1:55:14 PM

who cares about chess

12/28/2006 1:58:34 PM

that was yesterday's news which is 30 hours old. and on tww, yes 30 hours is too old

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 2:00 PM. Reason : ^ exactly. like i said in TT, no appeal, that's why nobody made a thread in the last 2 days about it]

12/28/2006 1:58:48 PM

hahah [new] to me, and quite funny.

12/28/2006 2:00:50 PM

shit, i messed up. i thought it said dec 28.

anyway:

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"^ exactly. like i said in TT, no appeal, that's why nobody made a thread in the last 2 days about it"

so someone says who cares about chess, and you say exactly? is that the level of sophistication you have? and how do you know someone saw it in the last 30 hours?

STFU AND STOP BEING A JERK.


Look at a handful of hundreds of gems you have created:

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=452369
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=452328
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=451848
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=451677 (where's that thread)
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=451069
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=450842

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 2:15 PM. Reason : LOG OFF]

12/28/2006 2:03:37 PM

those are chit chat threads. 99% of threads in chit chat are like that.

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"Hundreds of people browse the message board each day. Before you post something, think to yourself, "would the majority of the users want to read this?". If the answer is "no", then don't post it."

and i'm not saying that nobody cares about chess. some people do. but when the appeal is low, this is what you can expect. and the main point i was making is that you were getting your panties in a bunch about it being new enough when it was actually relatively old and covered by several major news outlets

12/28/2006 2:20:08 PM

Interesting.

12/28/2006 2:22:24 PM

ok, 1 month is "relatively old", but 30 hours is not. if you think it is, you have a twisted mind.

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""would the majority of the users want to read this?". If the answer is "no", then don't post it.""

my anwer was "yes".

how you gonna argue with that? we are not robots, you idiot. some of us have our own minds, and may come up with answers different to those of others to subjective questions. and you have several threads to which only one person bothered to respond. so, take your own advice. wait, now are you going to tell me reading a thread is different from responding to a thread?

p.s. not that it matters, but:

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"those are chit chat threads. 99% of threads in chit chat are like that"

was that your excuse for being a silly perverted mindless follow-the-herd idiot?

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 2:27 PM. Reason : ]

12/28/2006 2:23:30 PM

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"we are not robots"

yet

12/28/2006 2:25:43 PM

gg

12/28/2006 2:40:39 PM

I need a device to help me cheat at online chess. Where can I get one?

12/28/2006 3:08:21 PM

wow, qntmfred is a dumbass

12/28/2006 3:15:39 PM

thx

12/28/2006 3:16:57 PM

I wonder how often stuff like this happens with poker games in the US. Not so much on a tournament level, but more on a local level... I bet people get cheated out of shit all the time. It always surprises me that people are allowed sunglasses and whatnot in the professional poker tournaments. I dunno why I just always expected them to have some crazy james bond shit. Haha I watch too many movies

12/28/2006 9:55:07 PM

your life really sucks when you get banned from chess...

12/28/2006 9:58:15 PM