The Chinese Chess Association issued an announcement on Monday in response to rumors that Yan Moumou, the champion of the 2023 National Chess Folk Chess Championship, was suspected of cheating. The announcement mentioned that due to the athlete's misconduct in the hotel room after the game, the Chinese Chess Association withdrew the awards and titles, did not issue bonuses, and cancelled Yan's qualifications to participate in the chess tournament within 1 year from the date of the punishment decision, but it could not be confirmed that Yan Moumou had cheating.
On December 17, the finals of the 2023 National Chess Folk Chess Championship held in Hainan came to an end, and Yan Moumou from Henan won the championship, won the title of "Folk Chess King", and received a bonus of 100,000 yuan. But soon, Yan Moumou's misconduct in the competition area**.
After the game, after Yan Moumou checked out of the hotel, the hotel staff found that the bathtub was very turbid and suspected of excrement. After investigation, Yan Moumou drank alcohol with others in the room on the night of the 17th, and he himself excreted in the bathtub of the room where he lived on the 18th, which damaged the hotel's public property, violated public order and good customs, and had a negative impact on the tournament and chess projects, and was very bad in nature. The outside world speculated that Yan Moumou had "" cheating in the game, so the cheating tools had to be excreted and cleaned. In this regard, after investigating and collecting evidence, the Chinese Chess Association imposed the above punishment on Yan Moumou in accordance with the relevant disciplinary guidelines and punishment regulations. The association said in the announcement that it could not be confirmed that Yan Moumou had cheating.
Interestingly, this is not the first time that a chess tournament has been embroiled in a similar controversy over cheating allegations. On December 15, FIDE just released the results of an investigation into suspected cheating in a chess match in 2022, and concluded that there was no evidence that American player Niemann cheated.
The fifth tournament of the 2022 Chess Super Tour, the Sinkefield Cup, was held in the United States in September of that year, and the world chess champion Magnus Magnus lost to the teenager Niemann in the third round, ending his unbeaten streak in 53 slow games. The two met again two weeks later in the preliminaries of the Baer Intergenerational Cup, and Magnus Magnus conceded defeat after just two rounds of the meeting and turned off the camera to leave the match, further escalating the incident. On the Internet, many voices questioned Niemann's use of "" to cheat, which made the incident a hot topic.
Niemann has admitted to cheating in matches when he was 12 and 16 years old, but he has denied cheating in the match against Magnusson, and the head referee of the Xin Cup also found that there was no such behavior in the game. At the end of September 2022, FIDE set up an investigation team to investigate, and this month concluded that there was no evidence of cheating at the 2022 Sinkefield Cup, nor was there any evidence that Niemann had cheated in the tournaments he participated in in the past three years.
However, this does not completely rule out the possibility of Niemann cheating in the match. A foreign team produced a "fake" TV show in which British chess champion Daniel Fernandez unknowingly played against a novice with only three months of experience. The novice's name is Archie, and he is a magician by profession. He stuffed £95 worth of equipment into his body, a vibrating instrument, and Archie's colleague Josh was in charge of the off-field team, using an artificial intelligence system to calculate the best solution, and Archie decided what to do next based on the number of vibrations. As a result, after more than 90 minutes of competition, Daniel, who has 21 years of chess experience, lost to the novice Archie.
Archie later described the feeling of wearing the "": "The whole process was very tense and uncomfortable, and the vibration was actually very uncomfortable, not enjoyment, but more like torture!."When vibrating, you have to maintain a natural facial expression, otherwise it will be easy to be noticed. In this experiment, the whole team is also complaining: the design of the is very simple, but it takes a lot of time to practice, especially to think about the password and cooperate tacitly on and off the field.
According to public information, Yan Moumou was born in 1975 and won the men's individual championship in the chess final of the mass competition of the 14th National Games in 2021, and served as the coach of the Henan chess team. The severe punishment imposed by the Chinese Chess Association shows that the official attaches great importance to maintaining the image and fairness of the game. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Jin Lei).