What is your opinion about the following case(cheating?)
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:01 am
There was a team tournament at time control of 20 minutes per game+5 seconds per move between children under 8 years old.
In one of the rounds the coach of player A saw that in the next round player A is supposed to play against player B(because player A is board 1 of team 1 when player B is board 1 of team 2).
Player A already played with player B in the past so the coach of player B wanted player B to be prepared for some line that he expected to be in the game in order to win(based on the logical assumption that player A repeat the same opening).
Until now everything is ok and of course everybody is allowed to prepare at home against their opponent.
The problem is that the coach of player B did not prepare player A in the right time.
The other games in the tournament already started and people from the team of player B asked the arbiter to wait and not press the clock because player B needed to go to the toilet(and usually the organizers of the tournament allow a small delay of a game because of this reason).
Player A waited 10 minutes before player B came back and the result was that player B played the opening moves fast and won the game and player B admitted later that he prepared the opening at the time that his opponent waited.
Player A claim that his opponent was cheating.
Of course player B could also prepare before the game at home but it is not a preperation that is easy to memorize and by preparing exactly before the game at the time he was supposed to play,
player B got an unfair advantage.
Player B had less than 10 minutes on the clock at the end of the game that he won so it is not clear if player B could win the game assuming that player B started with 10 minutes on the clock instead of 20 minutes.
What is your opinion?
1)Should people take steps against player B or against his team or against the coach?
2)Should people cancel the result of the game in a way that it is not considered for rating.
In one of the rounds the coach of player A saw that in the next round player A is supposed to play against player B(because player A is board 1 of team 1 when player B is board 1 of team 2).
Player A already played with player B in the past so the coach of player B wanted player B to be prepared for some line that he expected to be in the game in order to win(based on the logical assumption that player A repeat the same opening).
Until now everything is ok and of course everybody is allowed to prepare at home against their opponent.
The problem is that the coach of player B did not prepare player A in the right time.
The other games in the tournament already started and people from the team of player B asked the arbiter to wait and not press the clock because player B needed to go to the toilet(and usually the organizers of the tournament allow a small delay of a game because of this reason).
Player A waited 10 minutes before player B came back and the result was that player B played the opening moves fast and won the game and player B admitted later that he prepared the opening at the time that his opponent waited.
Player A claim that his opponent was cheating.
Of course player B could also prepare before the game at home but it is not a preperation that is easy to memorize and by preparing exactly before the game at the time he was supposed to play,
player B got an unfair advantage.
Player B had less than 10 minutes on the clock at the end of the game that he won so it is not clear if player B could win the game assuming that player B started with 10 minutes on the clock instead of 20 minutes.
What is your opinion?
1)Should people take steps against player B or against his team or against the coach?
2)Should people cancel the result of the game in a way that it is not considered for rating.