Meet Chess Grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko, who has been handed three-year ban for dishonest with telephone in rest room

Romanian Grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko has been handed a three-year worldwide ban by FIDE with one yr suspended for
dishonest throughout the Spanish Workforce Championship final October. Shevchenko had confessed to hiding a cell phone in the bathroom and utilizing it throughout his video games within the occasion that had taken place in Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the North African coast. The 22-year-old, nevertheless, has denied utilizing the telephone to cheat with an engine.

Because of the invention, his attracts within the first two rounds had been changed into defeats. Shevchenko had raised suspicion for his frequent visits to the bathroom throughout his video games, and it was throughout his second-round assembly with GM Francisco Vallejo that the arbiter determined to get the cubicle that the Ukrainian-born GM had been visiting, the place a locked cell phone was discovered together with a hand-written notice.

World governing physique FIDE introduced that Shevchenko was responsible of breaching Article 11.7(e) of the FIDE Disciplinary Code. As per the choice by the EDC Chamber, he can return to play on 18 October, 2026. Nevertheless, the sanction’s suspended portion that extends to 2027 might be activated if he’s discovered responsible of dishonest once more.

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Whereas involvement in dishonest often results in a participant dropping his/her Grandmaster title, Shevchenko will get to maintain the title for now in a uncommon exception.

Shevchenko, ranked seventy fifth on the earth, thus turns into probably the most high-profile participant to be suspended for dishonest by FIDE. American Grandmaster Hans Niemann had been concerned in a good larger dishonest scandal throughout his assembly with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen within the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. Niemann, nevertheless, flatly denied Carlsen’s accusation of dishonest throughout their sport and didn’t obtain any suspension, both by the match organisers or by FIDE.

Who’s Grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko?

Shevchenko, born in Ukrainian capital Kyiv, had earned his Grandmaster title on the age of 14 years and 10 months in 2017, a yr after incomes his Worldwide Grasp title. He presently ranks seventy fifth on the earth and second in Romania with a score of 2653.

Among the many largest achievements of Shevchenko’s profession is successful Lindores Abbey Blitz in Latvia in 2021, the place he beat top-rated gamers reminiscent of Fabiano Caruana and India’s Arjun Erigaisi to the title. A month later, he can be a part of the Ukrainian crew that received gold on the European Workforce Chess Championship.

Six years after buying his GM standing, Shevchenko switched his allegiance to Romania and has been representing them ever since.