Cheating is not unknown in the chess world. In the highest-profile incident in recent years, Magnus Carlsen, then the world champion, lost to a player named Hans Niemann at a competition in St. Louis in 2022, and then withdrew from the tournament. — Photo by Jose Castillo on Unsplash
A top chess player was expelled from an event in Spain this week after being accused of cheating by using a phone during bathroom breaks between moves.
The player, Kirill Shevchenko, had been going to the bathroom for extended periods during games, and officials searching the stall he had used found a phone, which could have been used to get help from a computer program.
