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Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-20)
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Hello to all.

The website detected 2 'probable' cheaters registered (one playing), with a 1400 rating.

Of course, FICGS will face problems encountered by all correspondence chess sites but I think it will be minimal here, as I'm enforcing detection rules so that aliases couldn't register anymore.

Important : Games forfeited without a valid explanation won't be rated, and the account for the player closed. A player who may forfeit should send an email with explanation to : ficgs (at) ficgs.com

Thanks.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-20 15:12:34)
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All games played against Daniel Grecu (forfeit) won't be rated in this tournament. Sorry about that.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-24 11:00:22)
Forfeit , 2006 April 24

Paul-Iosif forfeited all his running games. Only games 87, 149 and 150 will be unrated. (too few moves played)

Sorry about that.


Herbert Kruse    (2025-07-24 09:12:23)
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is there a process to detect it today?


Ulises Pineda    (2025-08-05 01:14:13)
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I've seen many games recently where the games are lost on time in equal positions, by players that let their clock run until they have 0 days and then play from the increment. But they seem random, so not sure.


Herbert Kruse    (2025-08-25 11:02:18)
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if they are random, they should banned from tournament and all games should be nulled, so that is still a fair tournament


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 14:58:16)
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@Unlise Pineda, I do not think those situations are random. Because last one month, at least once, I had 3 or 4 games by "different" players, that have been doing so (letting their time run down to around one day or less) when I got all of their moves within 5 or 10 minutes of one another, very strange.


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 14:59:40)
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Pech/Pechova, I'm looking at you


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 21:02:56)
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The only explanation I can think of is that they are all friends/family and can only access the internet every so often, and do so at the same time. But that seems pretty far-fetched


George Jempty    (2025-10-07 17:20:01)
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You know what angers me about these players, is that I entered a tournament when one of them was around 2150 and me around 2000, and I stood to GAIN rating points by drawing. Well they've forfeited a bunch of games and there rating is down to close to 2000, whereas my latest rating was 2125, and my future rating is over 2150 at the moment. So now if I only draw against them I stand to LOSE rating points, unless they forfeit against me, which may or may not happen,


Thibault de Vassal    (2025-10-27 18:45:17)
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I understand... I'll have a look at that soon.


Paul Guralivu    (2026-04-16 10:15:06)
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"Pech/Pechova, I'm looking at you"

this might actually be true:
Stepan Pech ... is in vacation until 2026 April 17 4:20:21

Hana Pechova ... is in vacation until 2026 April 17 4:21:1

Taking vacation in the morning, 40 sec difference.

Trully, someone needs to look close at it!


Paul Guralivu    (2026-04-16 10:26:37)
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you should add to analysis:

Jiri Mach ... is in vacation until 2026 April 17 4:18:57


Paul Guralivu    (2026-04-16 10:46:43)
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Matej Pech ... is in vacation until 2026 April 17 4:19:39


Paul Guralivu    (2026-04-16 10:51:02)
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Pretty SUSPECT that 4 players, atleast 1 not part of the family,

take vacation AT 4 AM (in the MORNING!)... minutes or seconds from one-an-other!


Thibault de Vassal    (2026-04-16 13:24:19)
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Indeed. I observe it for years, but obviously rating is not the motivation so...


George Jempty    (2026-05-28 12:45:46)
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See, this is the sort of response that has led to my disillusionment with this site. These players, Pech, Pechova, Mach, etc. SHOULD BE BANNED. I have hated playing against them this several months.


Thibault de Vassal    (2026-05-29 16:21:07)
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Hello George. Feel free to tell me why (in private messages). Any feedback may be useful.


George Jempty    (2026-05-31 13:18:33)
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Thib, you said you'd look into LAST OCTOBER. In the meantime, Paul Guralivu has provided even more evidence as outlined above. I think you have everything you need to make a decision, without me emailing you. Thanks though.


Ulises Pineda    (2026-06-01 03:15:35)
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Let me play devil's advocate here: It makes sense that all these players take a vacation at the same time if they're from the same family, presumably the family goes together on vacation and are expected to come back together as well.

What shouldn't be allowed is if they play each other and let the game run out of time to give the win to one of them, that's not random, but I haven't seen that happening, anyway.


Paul Guralivu    (2026-06-06 18:16:18)
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@Ulises Pineda: there is not vacation...

"they" take those vacations often, just for 24-48 h...

when they don't take those vacations, they just let the clock go close to ZERO and then take vacations for 24-48 h AND then make the move!

Plus: Mach Jiri is part of the "situation".

and I believe Koudela Arthur is part of the situation also.

guess what: in the WCH... Mach Jiri, Pechova Hana and Koudela Arthur are in the SAME group -- playing each other!


George Jempty    (2026-06-06 20:54:00)
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And yet Thib continues TO DO NOTHING. Fuck FICGS