OOPS!
My licence fee gag has drifted this thread. (I'll drag it back)
The fee is only £13.00 a month and although I was really miffed at paying the ridiculous wages of Ross and Evans
and believe BBC's daytime T.V. is a government ploy to get people off the sofa and into work I sucked it up because
I have R4 or R4 extra on all day. Now I have catch up so I can get my Lucy Worsley...
...when ever I want. (I might go to £20.00 a month just to catch her programmes. Best thing on T.V.)
Like another poster I despise adverts and try never to buy anything advertised on TV.
but I do agree, we should be given the choice if we want to subscribe to BBC or not.
Back on thread, though not online cheating (and good luck with that.) and it's not really cheating
at playing but wheeling and dealing and throwing games. (which is cheating the other players - who
after you read this may be what the other players expected. It appears everyone was at it.)
Paraphrased from BCM July 1988 (page 311
At the 1903 3rd Russian Championship Yurevich and Rabinovich pre-arranged their game would go to adjournment,
they would then play a private game and who lost that game would lose the adjourned game.
But as Black Yurevich screwed up the deal by playing 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 c6 5. axb5 cxb5 6. Qf3.
This blunder/trap was first mentioned by Greco in 1620!
Yurevich lost and complained to the committee! Rabinovich admitted a deal had been made but could
not let such 'childish play' reach adjournment. A hoo-ha blew up in the press, the committee calmed it down.
Actually no real harm done, but read on.
Same tournament, Yurevich (again) and Lebedev were accused in print by Chigorin, who noted up the
following game, of composing it to pick up (and I assume split) the 100 roubles brilliancy prize.
Yurevich claimed Chigorin is doing this out of revenge because in their game,
which Yurevich won, Chigorin made him a mid-game 'offer.' which Yurevich refused.
Lebedev admitted that the game was made up adding he had sold his game 'very profitably' to Chigorin.
The Brilliancy Prize Game.
V. Yurevich - S. Lebedev, Kiev 1903.
...more details, including Chigorin's game notes evidence here:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1739533