GabrielGale wrote on 02/23/09 at 10:25:45:
I was not present when it happened (I plaid - very badly - in the C tournament which was held during the morning while the A1 and A2 were plaid in the afternoon).
Now to be honnest, I do not think Kurnosov did cheat (even if he did not play so good at the end of the tournament / after the conflict):
- many players were leaving their place after playing their move and went to the hall to smoke a cigarette. Kurnosov was not the only one to do this
- each "smoking" player looks at the other ones in the hall and it would be very difficult to start trying to use Rybka in such circumstances
- you could go to the toilets to use Rybka, but doing this after each move would have been seen by a lot of people and the arbiter would have noticed it without any problem.
- you could also try to go to your room. The problem is the rooms for the players were on the other side of the hotel complex where the tournament was held. I needed once to go to my room (because of having left my lighter there) and it took me about 8 minutes to get there and come back. If Kurnosov did so after each move, it would have been noticed by the arbiters AND he would have lost very soon on time.
I do not say it was impossible to cheat but the circumstances were not really favorable for this type of behaviour...
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