A 25-year-old chess champion named Gaioz Nigalidze was recently caught cheating via his iPhone while playing at the 17th annual Dubai Open Chess Tournament.
According
to tournament investigators, Nigalidze made suspiciously frequent trips
to a bathroom stall where, come to find out, he had hidden his iPhone
behind a toilet, appropriately wrapped and concealed in wads of toilet
paper.
Nigaldze’s
opponent, a grandmaster named Tigran Petrosian, initially became
suspicious when he noticed Nigaldze consistently running to the toilet
after making a move. Petrosian lodged a complaint which then prompted an
“on the scene” investigation, according to a report in The Telegraph.
When
the toilet paper covered iPhone was discovered, Nigalidze denied it was
his, a plea which comically fell on deaf ears once investigators began
poking around and discovered open social networking apps which clearly
belonged to Nigalidze. Not helping matters was an open chess app that
just so happened to be analyzing Nigalidze and Petrosian’s ongoing
match.
Naturally, Nigalidze was banned from the tournament. What’s more, the
validity of his entire career is now being called into question. A
purported rising star within the chess community, Nigalidze was the
reigning Georgian Chess champion for two years running.
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