CHESS CHEATER

The International Chess Federation suspended a player at a tournament in Strasbourg, France after the man was “caught red-handed using his phone during a game.” Igors Rausis, a 58-year-old Latvian-Czech player who won the grandmaster title in 1992, was caught last week. A phone was found in a bathroom stall that had just been used by Rausis during a bathroom break. Whether he was using his phone to get assistance from a chess engine is not clear. He later admitted that the phone was his, and later said, “I simply lost my mind yesterday.” Rausis had reportedly been under suspicion for cheating for a long time.
* So he’s had a checkered past?
* “Dammit! They’re always one move ahead of me!”
* Ah, the old Hide-The-Phone-In-The-Toilet-Stall Gambit, not seen since Sergey Aslanov in 2016. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.
* Maybe he just had an addiction to check his Facebook. He wouldn’t be the first.
* What was he doing in the bathroom stall? Banging the bishop?