Cheating?

Nowadays, it is very easy to cheat during at the tournament because of the modern gadgets, what makes this really interesting is, does strong players cheat too? the answer is "I don't know". In my own opinion it's nice to sweat, get exhausted and eventually earn the whole point because you have something to be proud of and the best way to gauge your level too. Well, cheating is just for a "weak" player (level of playing and also level of personality) I don't know if you guys would agree but this is just my opinion.

Personally, I knew someone had committed cheating and eventually got suspended for the whole year. I would say that I know them but we are not that close, those guys are the Coaches, Assistant Coach and Head Coach at one of the top University in the Philippines. This issue is on the record so any lawsuits and legal actions won't work to me. Anyways, what makes this issue so interesting is those guys are strong enough to cheat! GM Laylo and IM Dableo, so why are those guys cheating? isn't it so embarrassing to see a strong player cheating while we are all working hard to be a strong?

Well, if you guys think that is the whole point of this write up "you are wrong"! the following issue would be more stunning!

Few days ago I was trying to fire up myself playing more chess and finding some ways how to get some motivation to start with my serious study (normally I don't want to open my books if I don't feel like it, just wasting a time) so I had some idea to watch some elite GM's games at the youtube specially blitz, those games are so entertaining until I found this annoying thing, watch this carefully;




Did you watch it? watch it again and try to remember the position and each move they make, now watch this one and pay attention to the position of each games how they move the pieces and what the move they make.



I am not jumping to any conclusion here, but I don't really understand what is going on here, is there any way for the same player to play the same game from beginning up to the end? probably up to 23rd move after the theory ended is highly possible, but how about this? this is obviously a different game because as you can see they have a different board was using at that time.

It is so funny that these games ended with the same reason by "flagging down" and isn't it a coincidence that the last move is ... Kg3?, that's a whole bunch of coincidence then. If this is a drama I would say that these two elite US GM are great actors a Hollywood caliber and their rehearsal have paid off well.

As a professional chess player I am just wondering if there's anyone of you my fellow chesslover would try to enlighten this?

Play like a Rockstar!

It's been a long time that I haven't updated my blog, I can't even remember the sequence of my games that I played without looking the pairing board and names. Well, at this game I am a little proud that I play a bit Super GM's style but at the other part of it I wish that I could play this way against Master's from Russia!

I am so inspired after the Far West Open, because I don't play really bad specially against two IMs (but IM Sevilliano is basically worth as a Super GM) and two masters from Moscow and also a former Nevada State Champion. I felt that I overcome all of my bad habbits including playing hip-hop music while playing Chess, isn't weird?

My friend and I look at the game between IM Sevilliano- GM Kraii at the restaurant and I am so impress while asking myself "how could a strong GM losses like a poor Class-E player?" if i could do that to Mr. Viktor Pupols or Igor Marguilis I would be happy.

So I draw my games and try to find out something close to that performance level and I come up with this game CLICK HERE TO REPLAY