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Jul-05-19
 | | ketchuplover: Carlsen v. Rausis. MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW! |
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| Jul-12-19 | | fabelhaft: Rausis has apparently been caught cheating. |
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| Jul-12-19 | | Bobby Fiske: <Jan-17-19 alexmagnus: So, who <is> Rausis? Why did he suddenly get back into top 100 at the age of 57?>
BREAKING: He is just caught cheating in a tournament in Strasbourg. |
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| Jul-12-19 | | Bobby Fiske: UPDATE: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/gm... |
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| Jul-12-19 | | whiteshark: Rise and Fall of Igors Rausis |
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| Jul-12-19 | | Gallicrow: This player doesn't have a picture in his chessgames.com profile. Can I suggest using this one?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_SC3-b... |
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| Jul-12-19 | | Bobby Fiske: <Can I suggest using this one?> A-ha, that's the photo proof from the tournament when he was caught cheating with a mobile in the rest room. |
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| Jul-12-19 | | Christoforus Polacco: Topalov said - ''My children it will be the last generation of professional chessplayers''. Topalov said also that chess will be the part of our culture in the future but not a sport. Computers and human's dishonesty will kill chess as the sport... Probably Magnus Carlsen is the last undisputed chess hero. He doesn't need ''cheating'' during the game. He is almost like computer :)) |
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| Jul-12-19 | | wordfunph: the shame and sorrow of chess..
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa... |
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| Jul-12-19 | | nok: I think he's calling to ask for another roll of paper. |
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Jul-13-19
 | | MissScarlett: Is there no privacy left in the world? |
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| Jul-13-19 | | MrMelad: <MissScarlett: Is there no privacy left in the world?> Ehm... Not really. For better or worse. But you have to admit it’s a perfect photo.
I hope his GM title gets stripped, that he will return all prize money he won in the last 20 years and a good hefty fine is also in place. After that I hope he gets sued privately by people he conned and by FIDE and I also I wouldn’t feel sorry for him if he goes to jail for fraud. For his family I would though. But I doubt any of this will happen, probably just a flick on the wrist and some long term ban. |
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Jul-13-19
 | | tamar: I would be surprised if Rausis were the only older journeyman GM who has succumbed to temptation in order to get weekend prize money. Judit Polgar pinpointed the problem years ago when she said that 2500 range GMs were the likeliest to risk cheating, since they understood enough to only need confirmation, and could plausibly achieve any result on their own. Rausis had promise in his youth, beating Browne |
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| Jul-13-19 | | Hodor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_SC3-b... On this photo you can clearly see that the man is desperately looking for a blood pressure-lowering tablet in his tablet box. He is then disturbed by a mini spy drone. So far it has already come ... I think you all owe him an apology! |
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| Jul-13-19 | | BUNA: <I hope his GM title gets stripped, that he will return all prize money he won in the last 20 years and a good hefty fine is also in place.> In the last 20 years? The iPhone was invented in 2007 and serious chess software for smartphones even a few years later. Rausis' unusual rating progress started in 2015 if I'm not mistaken. Regarding the prize money I have to remind you that Rausis specialized in events with lots of players under 2100 Elo. In such tournaments you earn hardly any money. He didn't do it for the money, he apparently just wanted to reach a certain rating. |
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| Jul-13-19 | | csmath: Yikes, another one, 58-year-old cheater. looks like he started all of this a lot earlier. |
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Jul-13-19
 | | WannaBe: Its now on espn... Guess it must be true!! =))
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/i... |
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| Jul-14-19 | | Nina Myers: As I often say, you can’t fix stupid, but strangely, stupid has a way of fixing itself. |
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| Jul-14-19 | | MrMelad: <BUNA> You are probably right that Rausis started cheating only recently but can we know for sure? There are many ways to cheat, you don’t need an iPhone if someone in the crowd signals you the correct moves and the obvious spike in his rating may have started when he lowered his guard. Not likely but plausible. Once a cheater always a cheater and should be treated as such until proven otherwise. |
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| Jul-14-19 | | Hodor: When you play the <Game of Throne>, you win or you die. |
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| Jul-14-19 | | whiteshark: From the commentaries of the chess24 article (BUNA's link): <I decided to check his record in the previous year, if Im not mistaking <from May 2018 till yesterday the guy had a run of <149 games unbeaten...>>> 1) Is that right? Can someone confirm this..
2) How many of these chess games were won by cheating? 3) How much prize money was won by this fraud/scam? |
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Jul-14-19
| | MissScarlett: Let's hope he comes clean, but, if not, remembers to wash his hands. |
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| Jul-14-19 | | DrGridlock: < Sally Simpson: ***
He is a FIDE arbiter and is possibly doing this as an experiment/test to show up this amusing flaw in the rating system.>At least we know now that the 400 point rule is not a flaw in the system. Most likely, Rausis was playing in the lower-rated events because they had less security than the top events. |
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| Jul-14-19 | | DrGridlock: < BUNA: <I hope his GM title gets stripped, that he will return all prize money he won in the last 20 years and a good hefty fine is also in place.>
In the last 20 years? The iPhone was invented in 2007 and serious chess software for smartphones even a few years later. Rausis' unusual rating progress started in 2015 if I'm not mistaken.> I would say that from this data:
https://cdn.chess24.com/ffA1QnIMQTO... He started cheating around January 2013. It's simply not likely for a player's classical rating to rise by 400 points with no corresponding rise in rapid or blitz rating. (It's not possible to take a "bathroom break" during a blitz game to cheat with your phone). |
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Jul-14-19
 | | Dionysius1: <I hope his GM title gets stripped, that he will return all prize money he won in the last 20 years and a good hefty fine is also in place. After that I hope he gets sued privately by people he conned and by FIDE>. It's interesting that when someone does something obviously wrong and disgusting for which there is no straightforward legal redress, people tend to come up with completely OTT penalties. Here's to proper law and proper process. |
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