Cheating in Germany: The Sentence
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 12:09PM
Dennis Monokroussos

FM Christoph Natsidis was given a two-year ban for cheating at this year's German Championship (the old smartphone in the bathroom trick, as Agent 86 might put it). A sad tale, but at least the 23-year-old law student(!) immediately came clean after getting caught - not that there was anything obvious he could do to dispute it!

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