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Garry Kasparov
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I'm a proponent of online play & Chess 960 ("Fischerandom"), but if important events like world championship qualifiers are online, security must eliminate the potential for cheating.
I'm preparing for my own Chess 960 match in St. Louis in a few days, so I was watching some matches in the FIDE online qualifier. An unknown guy beating two strong GMs & taking Grischuk to armageddon is curious at best, but then you look at the games and it's a joke.
I see this bs all the time playing blitz online. And while I don't expect organizers or arbiters to be able to detect machine play as easily as top GMs can, they must eliminate the possibility with proctors on-site in important events.
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