Mr. Goran Tomic published interesting information about the false tourney investigation results. It all started when IM Miroslav Shvarts informed German Chess Federation about his third GM norm achieved in double round robin tourney in Kali Cup GM 2004, which was supposedly played in Mindzentkalla, Hungary.
German chess federation official Mr. Christian Krause found this suspicious and asked Hungray Chess Federation (HCF) for more information about this event. HCF started proper investigation and afterwards sent report to FIDE Ethics Commission:
"Tournament named Kali Cup GM 2004 is complete deception. Such event was never held. HCF Disciplinary Commission decided to punish participants.
- Organizer IM Lajos Istvandi is suspended from all chess activities for the next two years.
- IA Gyorgy Fazekas, who wrote rating reports on the organizers request, is suspended for 18 months.
After receiving this report, FIDE Ethics Commission has suspended other players who have "participated" in this event:
- IM Vadim Eschenko (Ukraine), IM Timofey Galinsky (Ukraine), GM Mato Damjanovic (Croatia, 80 years old!) and GM Attila Czebe (Hungary) for one year starting from March 1st, 2006.
- IM Miroslav Shvarts is suspended for 30 months starting of March 1st.
- GM Juraj Nikolac (Croatia) is free of charge as he always claimed that he never played in this tournament. This has probably helped the investigation.
If you look at FIDE website, Shvarts is already removed from rating list. Certainly good news for chess world which is sick and tired of things like that. Hopefully, this will encourage other people to report similar attempts. We still have "Alushta" case unresolved. There is also "Kreiman" case in US. And I know that some of SCG titled players have bought their norms in fixed tournaments in Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. But it's not my job to investigate that.
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If I’m not mistaken, IM Miroslav Shvarts also convicted at playchess.com to use computer assistance during the Chess event.
That event was sponsored by the Chess Chronicle
C'm on, who are the uncovered title buyers? Are you sure? Just would like to know.
I know one famous titled player from SCG who never in his life bought a point or other in - blitz, rapid, classical, or any other games of chess! Can you match that in any other country I ask you?
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