The current coach of the Uzbekistan chess team and former champion Vladimir Kramnik questioned the presence of a phone and lodged a formal complaint during the match against the Indian team in the round 9 game on Friday.
Kramnik had issues with the cellphone recording the Indian players during the game. However, Kramnik later clarified he wasn’t accusing the Indian team of wrongdoing or ChessBase India, whose cell phones they were.
India and Uzbekistan played out a 2-2 draw as India ended the ninth round with a two-point lead over the rest of the chasing pack. While India has 17 game points after nine rounds, the USA, Uzbekistan, and China have 15 points.
In the game between India and Uzbekistan, there was controversy early on after Kramnik complained about the presence of cell phones near the members of the Indian team.
Chess24 reported that Kramnik had filed an official complaint about phones in the playing hall. The popular chess website ChessBase India recorded all four boards with Indian players on them in the open section with individual cell phones. They have permission from the organizers to do so.
.“Summary of today’s story. It’s time for FIDE to take anti-cheating seriously and professionally, instead of just pretending. Anti-cheating regulations implementation must be WAY more strict. Allowing mobile phones, and lots of random guests in the playing hall, should not be allowed. All checkings before games, causing participants troubles and time, make little sense if you let almost anyone into the playing area after the start and give away permissions to bring devices and even film in the middle of a round using a mobile phone, I have seen it many times here (sic),” Kramnik tweeted on Saturday morning.
While the phone was taken away for time being, it was returned back to original position and the matter was resolved as ChessBase India had the necessary permissions.
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