An "example" (even if i don't know if this did happen for this move) : France - England (Round 5)

MVL vs Adams
Fressinet vs Short
Tkachiev vs McShane
Feller vs Howell

Adams is A and 1;
Short is B and 2;
Mc Shane is C and 3;
...
Feller is E and 5;
...
MVL is H and 8.

For the move 19. Nb4-c2, Marzolo would have sent the sms 06 19 24 32 xx (xx are two random digits) to Hauchard.

Hauchard would go to the table 2, behind Short (with surely a little sign) then to the table 4 (behind Howell), then to the table 3 (behind McShane), and finally to the table 2.

Maybe it was easier there to only give c2.

Anyway, without backing the hypothesis of Feller's innocence, i'd like to point out that there is still some ambiguity about this.

a) There is no single legal evidence of this (the sms are kept secret). Only the huge number of sms is known. Around 200 by game. Exactly during the game. 0 before and 0 after ...

b) The description of the system (nicknamed the "flight of the bumblebee" ) is "only" the testimony of the main accusator.

c) There is no single evidence that S.Feller did receive the coded moves, and actually play them.

Still I keep my doubts.

I played myself in olympiads and I know the game itself needs an amount of concentration to care other things. Especially an agitated captain...

If I understand correctly the explanation you gave, the move order (Of this captain!) is crucial. You miss it and instead c2 you have b3!?

This affair is not clear to me.

He hires a detective agency to follow his wife.

The wife meets with a handsome young lad and goes to dinner with him. After wards after sipping some wine they proceed to the hotel room where the detective see them kissing from the window. Then they switched off the lights.

These events were all reported by the detective to the husband, who replied:

http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/...

Something like that - it seems he won an appeal, or at least the court suspended the sentence pending another hearing: http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/f... It's hard to follow French jurisprudence, especially when translated by Google :)

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/201... FIDE Ethics Commission suspends Hauchard, Feller and Marzolo

Judgement rendered by the FIDE Ethics Commission in the case “French Team”, concerning a complaint submitted by the French Chess Federation against Mr. Sébastien FELLER, Mr. Arnaud HAUCHARD and Mr. Cyril MARZOLO, and a report submitted by the FIDE Executive Director, in reference to facts allegedly committed during the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), for an alleged violation of par. 2.2.5 of the FIDE Code of Ethics.

The Ethics Commission rules that:

- all submitted objections and preliminary requests have to be dismissed;

- Mr. Sébastien FELLER, Mr. Arnaud HAUCHARD and Mr. Cyril MARZOLO are responsible for the violation of par. 2.2.5 of the FIDE Code of Ethics;

- Mr. Arnaud HAUCHARD has to be sanctioned with the exclusion from the participation in all FIDE tournaments, as a player or as a member of a national delegation, for a period of 3 (three) years, starting from the 1st of August 2012;

- Mr. Sébastien FELLER has to be sanctioned with the exclusion from the participation in all FIDE tournaments, as a player or as a member of a national delegation, for a period of 2 (two) years and 9 (nine) months, starting from the 1st of August 2012;

- Mr. Cyril MARZOLO has to be sanctioned with the exclusion from the participation in all FIDE tournaments, as a player or as a member of a national delegation, for a period of 1 (one) year and 6 (six) months, with a suspension of the sanction for the last nine months, under probation, in accordance with the decision of the CNOS (Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français); for what concerns the effects of the present decision, the validity of the already executed suspension since 27 May 2011 can be confirmed, but it has to be affirmed the competence of the FIDE EC regarding the evaluation of the period of probation, starting from 27 February 2012 till 27 November 2012, and the French Chess Federation has to be requested to send the FIDE Secretariat a report on the behavior of Mr. Cyril MARZOLO during the above mentioned period of nine months;

- FIDE Secretariat and FIDE Presidential Board have to be informed of the present decision for all possible consequences related to the results of the games played by Mr Sébastien FELLER during the 2010 Chess Olympiad, concerning ratings, rankings and prizes;