https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-wo ... ulia-osmakI have argued here before not in favour a zero tolerance approach to cheating but rather in favour of considering - to see if it might work. This latest episode from the chess world inclines me to think it can't work.
Clearly FIDE was not really trying to cheat, but the end result of their approach amounts to cheating against the players, in my view.
To start with, they acknowledge that they know themselves that their process is dodgy enough that they can't claim a player cheated - just that there was a whiff of doubt about a game, with an implicit acknowledgment the smell may have con from elsewhere.
But the stench of nationalism is in the air, too. At least chess players get by, just, and with plenty of rancour, administratively by (a) having an international body, (b) using English as the lingua franca, and (c) having the CAS court as a backstop.
None of these things apply in go. The mind boggles as to how an international dispute would be handled in the go world.