Chapter 1707: Foreigners Don’t Have Sportsmanship

Kaxin ostentatiously treated the two girls to a "magical" self-heating hot pot, then borrowed their chess sets and insisted on playing chess with Xiao Peng.

As Xiao Peng's personal bodyguard, Kasim knew Xiao Peng didn't know how to play chess. It's no exaggeration to say that Xiao Peng didn't even understand how the pieces moved.

Kaxin had been crushed by Xiao Peng in every way for so long! Although he didn't say anything, as a man, he couldn't accept this in his heart. Now that he had finally found something that Xiao Peng couldn't play with, why didn't he quickly get back at him?

So Kasim dragged Xiao Peng to play chess with great interest. In fact, it was almost as he guessed. He easily won three games in a row against Xiao Peng.

Just when Kaxin was feeling extremely proud, Xiao Peng told him that he had learned the rules and could play chess with Kaxin properly. Then Kaxin faced his nightmare - he was defeated by Xiao Peng and was left with nothing.

Vika and Vesta both watched this scene, and unable to contain their curiosity, they decided to play chess with Xiao Peng. Just like Kasin, they were quickly defeated. When they faced Xiao Peng, they always felt like they were playing against a supercomputer!

Of course, the two began to question Xiao Peng's level. Vika even suspected that Xiao Peng was imitating Eagles-Lousy and insisted on checking whether he was cheating.

Knowing their thoughts, Xiao Peng was helpless - I was just wearing pajamas, where could I go to cheat?

But Vika was not convinced, and simply checked Xiao Peng's hair, ears, etc. to determine whether Xiao Peng had any cheating tools hidden on him. He even checked Xiao Peng's private parts!

If Xiao Peng hadn't thought she was a woman... Ugh! If Xiao Peng hadn't felt that he had a clear conscience, he would have thrown Vika out of the window and out of the train!

By the way, Iggers-Lousy is also a great figure in the history of chess!

He holds dual Latvian and Czech citizenship and is a true world-class chess master. He was awarded the title of "Grandmaster" by the World Chess Federation in 1992 and is the oldest player in the top 100 of the World Chess Federation rankings. He is considered a highly respected figure in the chess world—while others achieve fame at a young age, he is a late bloomer. After maintaining a rating of around 2500 for over a decade, he has experienced a sudden surge in recent years, increasing his rating by nearly 200 points to 2686—the current highest rating in the world is 2872. Given his rapid growth, he could very well reach world number one in his sixties!

As a result, in July 2019, at an international chess tournament held in Strasbourg, France, Grandmaster Lausi was caught red-handed while running to the bathroom to use chess software on his mobile phone to cheat in the middle of a game... and his rapidly rising rating was also suspected to be the result of cheating. Anyway, he caused chaos in the entire international chess community.

Eagles-Lawsey's cheating is not an isolated phenomenon or an isolated case. Chess cheating is a long-standing problem.

Especially with the development of computer technology, chess, known for its logical operations, was the first chess game to be conquered by computers. As a result, various cheating methods have emerged one after another, and many chess cheating cases have shocked the world.

For example, in 1993, at the Philadelphia World Chess Open, a chess player named John Van Newman emerged.

Before that World Open, the chess world was completely oblivious to such a figure. Then, in that match, John van Newman stunned the world. As a novice player, he drew with Grandmaster Aulas in the second round. In another match, he lost after playing only nine moves before running out of moves and losing by timeout. In one particularly fascinating game, there was only one reasonable move: a pawn capture the bishop, which 100% of players would have chosen. Yet, Newman deliberated for over forty minutes, finally going to the restroom before making the pawn capture the bishop move and winning the game.

In that tournament, Newman won the 'Best Newcomer Award'. Before giving him the prize money, the tournament organizers asked him to solve a simple chess layout. As a result, Newman directly refused and left the tournament without even taking the prize money. He never appeared in any chess tournament again.

Newman's approach is still a bit "childish", and it is really nothing compared to the German chess player Clemens Overmann.

Before he was 55, Overman was a third-rate chess player with a rating of around 1900. Even in Germany, his ranking was around 10,000. However, he suddenly broke out in 1999. In the Berlin Open, he faced various chess grandmasters in nine games without losing a single game and won the championship, becoming the second best chess player in Germany after Arthur that year.

It would be strange if there were no problems here. At that time, various mainstream media directly ridiculed that "a new German genius who surpasses Goethe, Beethoven and Einstein has arrived!"

Then people investigated carefully and found that all his moves were exactly the same as those of a chess software called 'Fritz'!

Afterwards, people began to investigate and learned that Overman used to run an electronics store equipment business, and during the game no matter how hot it was, he always wore a dark suit and a dark tie. People speculated that he hid the micro camera in his tie, and long hair and glasses made it easier to hide the receiver.

The meticulous Germans took direct legal action to investigate the issue, eventually locating the store that sold Overman the electronic equipment. The owner of the store specifically stated that Overman had purchased a wireless transmitter and a minimal receiver. However, the investigation ultimately fell through due to "insufficient evidence" and "no one observed him using electronic equipment during the match." He was, however, banned from Bavarian Chess Federation events and never achieved a rating above 2,000. And now? With advances in mobile technology, and especially with tournaments shifting to online events due to the pandemic, cheating has become even more prevalent. In one match, five of the top six players were disqualified for cheating. Even in-person tournaments have banned mobile phones since 2014—but some cheating players, like Iggers-Lausee, hide their phones in the restroom before matches.

There are even "chess detectives" who specialize in catching chess cheats. There are so many people working in this field that many professional players have simply given up their careers to become "detectives" because the income is extremely high and the business is booming - who can blame the fact that there are so many cheaters?

Look, foreigners are not that sportsmanlike either.