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Only last year, the SquarknII program was banned from the computer chess championships after it was found to differ in only three small respects from the code of Robbolito 0.85g3.

The most famous scandal in recent memory had three top players conspiring to cheat using an elaborate system of text messages, software, and body language at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Siberia.

Two months ago, Pelletier brought his DIG academy to the North End. It’s a hybrid program, one that teaches eager kids soccer and chess, the skills for which are interchangeable, he argues.