I once read about a funny piece of cheating in chess (and I know glee has read the same book) - a hustler in a crowded chess cafe castled with a Rook from the next board to his right and won with the aid of the extra piece while three puzzled players were wondering what had happened. 
Boy, that’s do funny!
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Sorry, chess virgin here.
Castling is a move in which, uniquely, two pieces of the same colour are moved in one turn - the King and one of the Rooks. The cheat, under pretence of castling, moved his own King but stole a Rook (a powerful piece) from the next game over instead of using his own (which he’d presumably lost earlier). In a game between two reasonably matched opponents, an extra Rook confers an advantage which usually amounts to an easy win. But his opponent and both the players on the other board were undoubtedly 
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Rook = castle?
Dare you saying that this guy reached over and snagged a piece from the board next to him? Right in front of it’s owner? Confused, my butt. How come he didn’t get set upon?
No true chessplayer ever calls a Rook a castle, but that’s the piece you’re thinking of. And I presume the actual snatch went unnoticed, or he would have been in deep trouble.
The Rook would normally have been on the corner of the board - I guess the tables must have been more than usually crowded so he only had to reach a few inches further to snag the stolen piece.
Any good chess player would know if a piece were missing.
Cheaters think everybody cheats. Liars think everybody lies. Thieves think everybody steals. it is part of the justification that we are able to do to make it acceptable to yourself. The truth is not everybody cheats or steals.
Golfers would be a class that has a lot less cheating. But it happens.
In terms of Major League Baseball, cheating has always been a part of the game, from spitballs to corked bats to pine tar to steroids. Borderline cases like sliding way out of the basepath to take out the 2nd baseman turning a double play, or A-Rod distracting a fielder… those have always been around, too.
The ones who stay completely true are rare, but do exist. Christy Matthewson (early 20th century pitcher who helped pioneer the screwball and who is 3rd on the all-time wins list) was reknowned for his honesty. Umpires sometimes even asked Christy about uncertain “safe” vs “out” calls, and Christy would just as often as not give the answer that went against his team.
Actually there is opportunity for cheating if you think of cheating as a violation of the rules. There have been accusations of players receving coaching during matches and accusations of players taking bathroom breaks in order to recover physically rather than for the intended purpose.
There have also been cases where players have “overruled” the linesman when they thought he made an incorrect call in their favor, by intentionally giving up the next point to negate the “bad” call. If that isn’t about the most ethical and sporting thing you can do I don’t know what is.
At Wimbleton they watch for all that. Today one of the men was escorted to the restroom, I presume so the official could listen for the telltale noise. Also, they have that electronic device (I forget what it’s called) that shows where the ball hit.
Where was that when McEnroe was playing?
And when Serena had her cramp, it was pretty obvious that she wasn’t faking. She did, however, wish very hard for that rain.
BTW; Her sis took the championship. Her fourth. 
I like Venus Williams.
And WHY do they watch for all that?
Are you undertaking to teach me about chess? :dubious:
We’re not talking even good club-quality chess here, but skittles games in a chess café - noisy, smoky and generally confused. And you should never underestimate the power of human incompetence - Harry Golombek, chess master and respected commentator, once annotated a game in the quiet of his study and twice castigated Black for failing to castle when earlier in the game he had moved his King and then returned it to e8. As hordes of delighted magazine readers wrote in to point out, you can’t Castle if you’ve moved the King.
A chess manual written by, IIRC, Ruy Lopez, centuries ago, advised players to always place the board so that the glare of the sun was in your opponent’s eyes. Did this constitute cheating? I dunno. But it does show that the sport has a long history of looking for advantage outside of knowing how to move the pieces.
In America the “Win At Any Cost” ethos is far advanced. I could almost hear the legions of MBAs, athletes and whatnot chorusing “Loser!” at any suggestion that cheating didn’t work or didn’t happen often.
Right. Just as in golf, eh?
And then there’s this kind of stuff. Atypical, sure. But still all too common. The guy should be listed as a child abuser.