Idea: Anyone want to enter a USMB chess tournament?

[TNHarley]

Have any of you participated in a USCF tourney? Or anything legit like that?
I did once. My first opponent was 2K on chess.com. He was also in my chess club. He was around 75. I played well but he beat me.
Fun times.

 

[Votto]

Have any of you participated in a USCF tourney? Or anything legit like that?
I did once. My first opponent was 2K on chess.com. He was also in my chess club. He was around 75. I played well but he beat me.
Fun times.

I do all the time

Just know the knives tend to come out when you play in those mosh pits.

I can't tell you how many notifications I have gotten saying your opponent cheated.

LOL.

 

[TNHarley]

I do all the time

Just know the knives tend to come out when you play in those mosh pits.

I can't tell you how many notifications I have gotten saying your opponent cheated.

LOL.

How do they cheat? They are sitting right across from you lol
EDIT: I bet it is their move cards

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

How do they cheat? They are sitting right across from you lol
EDIT: I bet it is their move cards

On-line cheating is pervasive at the higher levels..usually by using a computer chess program to respond to your unseen opponents moves~

Vladimir Kramnik takes legal action over Chess.com ban for “harmful” cheating accusations - Dexerto

Vladimir Kramnik is taking legal action after chess.com banned him for making nonstop cheating allegations against other players.

www.dexerto.com

Hans Niemann says Chess.com ‘can’t be trusted’ and is biased towards streamers - Dexerto

Controversial chess star Hans Niemann is accusing chess.com of being biased and says the platform can’t be trusted.

www.dexerto.com

Then there is the famous case of the vibrating anal beads

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann-anal-beads-cheating

 

[TNHarley]

On-line cheating is pervasive at the higher levels..usually by using a computer chess program to respond to your unseen opponents moves~

Vladimir Kramnik takes legal action over Chess.com ban for “harmful” cheating accusations - Dexerto

Vladimir Kramnik is taking legal action after chess.com banned him for making nonstop cheating allegations against other players.

www.dexerto.com

Hans Niemann says Chess.com ‘can’t be trusted’ and is biased towards streamers - Dexerto

Controversial chess star Hans Niemann is accusing chess.com of being biased and says the platform can’t be trusted.

www.dexerto.com

Then there is the famous case of the vibrating anal beads

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann-anal-beads-cheating

Im referring to in person tournaments.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Im referring to in person tournaments.

Anal beads.

That’s the most recent chess cheating scandal in-person.

 

[TNHarley]

Anal beads.

That’s the most recent chess cheating scandal in-person.

Im not even going to ask.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Im not even going to ask.

Yea I don’t blame you, lol.

I wish I was making that up.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Yea I don’t blame you, lol.

I wish I was making that up.

Well, you kind of are. That was a tossoff joke by a Twitch streamer. Got.picked up and went viral. He wasn't seriously suggesting it.

 

[JoeMoma]

Anal beads.

That’s the most recent chess cheating scandal in-person.

I think that is unproven. At any rate, the accused GM chess player denies it.

Also, how would it work? Morse code Perhaps?

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann-anal-beads-cheating#:~:text=%22Have%20you%20ever%20used%20anal,I%20can%20tell%20you%20no.%22

 

[XponentialChaos]

I think that is unproven. At any rate, the accused GM chess player denies it.

Also, how would it work? Morse code Perhaps?

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann-anal-beads-cheating#:~:text=%22Have%20you%20ever%20used%20anal,I%20can%20tell%20you%20no.%22

It’s not proven of course.

Several prominent members of the chess community believe that something suspicious happened. That was the theory that the internet came up with, and it went viral from there.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It’s not proven of course.

Several prominent members of the chess community believe that something suspicious happened. That was the theory that the internet came up with, and it went viral from there.

Then Neimann proceeds to get consistently smashed by the top tier players, which feeds that suspicion.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Votto

Thanks for the game. I found my main mistake on move 12. I could have kept the game even.