16-04-2015, 05:10 PM
Phil Thomas Wrote:Serious question here.
Is this the first offence by this player?
If you look up his rating progress on the FIDE site.
He went from 2224 grade to 2422 in just 6 months and 46 games.
Suspicious - in the previous 4 years he had adavanced from 2157 grade to 2224.
It's dangerous to go on grading rises alone, particularly if the person is still relatively young, although it certainly could be an indicator.
As an 'oldie', as far as modern chess goes, I myself jumped from 2193 to 2305 in about 5 months last year, simply due to the fact that I studied very hard and played many more strong tournaments than I had for the previous years.
More concerning is that fellow players had suspicions about his play for a while and nothing seems to have been done about it?! I don't, however, know if these suspicions were reported to organisers or not, nor whether anything was done subsequently to monitor his actions during events.