How FIDE tries to ensure there is no cheating at prestigious event like Chess World Cup
A couple of hours before the playing hall for the FIDE World Cup at Goa’s Resort Rio opens its doors to grandmasters and spectators, a dedicated team of nine fairplay officers go about sanitising the spacious playing hall. It’s these men and women, whose job it is to keep the tournament’s integrity intact. The complexity of the job at hand for these fairplay officers comes from the fact that most of the players also stay in the same compound at Resort Rio as the playing hall. Cheating in chess has been in the news over the past year, thanks to former world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s crusade against online cheaters. While those who play the sport – and those who officiate it as arbiters – are keen to emphasise that online chess and over-the-board chess are two completely different beasts, an event like the Chess World Cup always puts the global governing body of chess, FIDE, on high alert to ensure fair play. Story continues below this ad Method behind the process So how do FIDE …
