A couple of thoughts on that latest video:

--again some overstatement (you can't calculate Ne4 and g3 with two minutes on your clock).
--Lilov's way of talking reminds me of the term "pressure of speech."

Well, he's back in the news: http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211/PostId/4009997/the-show-goes-on-ivanov-i....

Anyone know if he still maintains his performances when they do NOT broadcast the games?  It was a few tournaments ago, but one of the most damning things about the first incident was when the broadcast of games was stopped in the last round, he fell apart like a typical 2100 player against a GM.

MartinC wrote on 05/17/13 at 12:26:51:


Well, it's hardly a human right to be allowed to play a chess tournament - if he was banned from the tms for having shown offensive behaviour, I think most players would support it, so ostentatiously cheating should be on the same level. 

One can compare with cafés that don't allow people with baby carriages - parents with whiny screaming kids go to the newspapers and complain, but so far I haven't seen anything about them winning any court case...

Well it was clearly just getting impossible to actually run a tournament with him in so some pragmatic sense.

Objectively though, this really is getting into rather dangerous territory. Banning people without a really reliable, concrete case against them?

You'll get hauled up in court and very likely lose with it. Quite rightly too really. This is one thing that a reliable, universally agreed, statistical test might give you a chance to defend against.

RdC wrote on 05/16/13 at 07:55:22:



But then, could you ignore all the complaints (from other GMs)? What is the critical amount of the complaints that matters? 

If you are to think deep about the legal rights of all the involved..it turns out this is a very complicated matter.
As long as there are no authorities or regulations to deal with such cases, no other than a real mess would happen..
Let's say I'm an amateur in chess and I go for a weekend tournament just to play chess for fun. I pay the fee and enter the open tournament. Then I have to play against this (or other) man in the first round. What to do? Play...or complain to the organizers? On what ground? Suspicions?.. Do I have to buy an electronic set in order to catch a possible fraud?
Or the other case: I'm a professional in chess and I enter an open big tournament which takes time (let's say a week). I expect to win this tournament or at least to be in the first three.. And then I have the misfortune to meet this guy in the 7th round.. What to do? 
As per the tournament organizers: they call their tournament "open".. But if they don't allow him to participate, is it really "open"? Or closed? Or "just for friends"?
What if I (as an amateur) win against two GMs in a row just by accident (or on account of my deep preparation taken from my correspondence chess analyses)? Would they suspect me in cheating? Would they complain to the organizers? Would I be let to play in the next tournament because of such suspicions?
And if I wouldn't, can I take my lawyer's advice and bring this case to court pleading discrimination? 
Do I have to continue?..
As you can see, nothing is easy as it seems. And I think all sides lose in this case.

Vass wrote on 05/15/13 at 22:03:14:


Would it be so hard to arrange a collection among the players to buy the equipment? 

The most surprising thing to me is that the organisers still allow him to play if they're so sure he's cheating. They could just add "We reserve the right to refuse entry to the tournament for players with an unsportsmanlike reputation" to the tournament invites...