On December 17, Henan chess player Yan Moumou won the championship in the finals of the 2023 National Chess Folk Chess Championship and won a bonus of 100,000 yuan. However, on December 18, after Yan Moumou checked out of the hotel, the waiter who cleaned the room found that there was feces in the bathtub and informed the organizing committee of the incident. Because the staff asked Yan Moumou about this matter in the contestant's WeChat group, it aroused the doubts of many people in the group, believing that Yan Moumou was suspected of using "" to cheat in the competition. This event is also known as the "Chess Bathtub Gate".
On December 25, the Chinese Chess Association issued a notice stating that after investigation and verification, Yan Moumou drank alcohol with others in the room on the night of the 17th, and he himself excreted in the bathtub of the room where he stayed on the 18th. In accordance with relevant regulations, the Chinese Chess Association decided to withdraw all the awards and awards of Yan Moumou in the 2023 National Chess Folk Chess Championship, and no bonuses will be issued. and within one year from the date of the penalty decision, Yan Moumou's qualifications to participate in chess events will be cancelled. However, the Chinese Chess Association also said in the notice: "At present, it cannot be confirmed that Yan Moumou has the '' cheating behavior speculated by the media." ”
On December 26, the Red Star News reporter interviewed the party Yan Moumou, and he also publicly responded to the incident that caused an uproar.
"There is a reason for excreting in the bathtub,
Started saying that a fine of $100 settled the matter"
According to Yan, this happened after the game, "I had a stomach upset early that morning, so I went to the toilet. After going to the toilet, I walked to the door and felt sick again. But the hotel toilet is a bit big, four or five meters long, and it was too late to walk back to the toilet, so it was solved in the bathtub nearby. ”
Yan Moumou said that he also cleaned the bathtub at that time, but when flushing, he didn't know how to open the valve of the bathtub drainage, so he couldn't clean it, "I don't know how to get it up, and I really can't use it." On the other hand, this tub is several years old, and it is not as good as new. ”
Yan Moumou explained that the plane arranged for him by the organizing committee of the event that day was around 9 o'clock in the morning, and he needed to take a flight home from Lingshui, Hainan to Sanya's Phoenix International Airport at 5 o'clock. According to Yan, he was in a hurry to go to the airport, so he didn't have time to continue cleaning the bathtub.
After the hotel waiter found that there was excrement in the bathtub of the room where Yan Moumou was, Yan Moumou said that the original opinion of the organizing committee was to fine him 100 yuan, and the matter was resolved. However, due to the fact that this matter was exposed in the WeChat group related to the event, it also aroused the suspicion of the outside world that Yan Moumou used the "" to cheat, which in turn caused the Chinese Chess Association to further severely punish Yan Moumou.
Yan Moumou (middle) won the championship
"I admit my mistake,
But when it came out on the Internet, it beat me to death."
In an interview with a Red Star News reporter, Yan Moumou also expressed his dissatisfaction with the relevant staff for announcing the matter in the WeChat group. He said: "You deal with this matter, and you don't know my phone number and WeChat, won't you solve it by giving me a call?"
As for the use of "" to cheat, 48-year-old Yan Moumou denied it. He said: "I'm a rural person and a county person, how can I understand this! I only participate in competitions a few times a year. The so-called "" cheating is a new type of cheating method in the chess world in recent years. The smart is a bead-shaped miniature device, which uses the contraction and touch of the sphincter to form a signal exchange with nearby AI devices in the form of Morse code, transmit the information of the number of chess moves, and then after AI analysis and processing, send back the information to the smart, and transmit the coordinate code of the chess move through the vibration frequency.
In the interview, Yan Moumou also denied that he knew the Morse code.
颜某某被外界怀疑用“肛珠”作弊 图据IC photo
Yan Moumou also introduced that this time, the contestants were in a room for two people in the hotel arranged by the organizing committee of the event, "I have lived in a room with another person for five or six days, can he not know that I cheated?"
Yan Moumou said that he would definitely appeal against the punishment of the Chinese Chess Association. He said: "Originally, I also admitted my mistake to the organizing committee in this matter, and the fine of 100 yuan was solved." But because after the online report came out, they beat me to death!"
At noon today, the Red Star News reporter contacted a person in charge of the Chinese Chess Association, who said that it was inconvenient to be interviewed at present, "Everything is subject to the notice issued by the association." ”
Red Star News reporter Sun Zhao Jiang Shan
Edited by Cheng Li
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