Reports | January 08, 2009 19:32  Is cheating always newsworthy?
HandheldAs various blogs have already reported, a 14-year-old
chess player from Australia has been caught cheating while
playing a game of chess. It immediately led to a debate among
the ChessVibes editors: is it newsworthy?  At the current The
Norths Chess Club Centenary Year Under 1600 Tournament, a side
event to the Australian Open Championships in Sydney, yesterday
a player was caught using what the arbiter called a "hand held
machine" in the toilets. The game was declared lost and the boy
was expelled from the tournament.  The 14-year old was using the
program ChessMaster on a Playstation Portable, and that was
probably the reason why the moves were not particularly strong:
It's the first example of a chess player getting caught while
using an electronic device in Australia, and so it quickly
became a big story in the relatively small Australian chess
community. It was mentioned at The Closet Grandmaster (who
posted the game notation give