Oh For Shame! The sanctity of this year’s Inky-Sponsored National Sudoku Tournament has (maybe) been violated by a New Jersey man accused of cheating! Eugene Varshavsky, HOW COULD YOU!? Varshavsky, originally a walk-up contestant, left with the $3000 third place prize, not to mention the nerd honor of meeting Will Shortz. It was only later that Varshavsky’s performance made some of the judges go hmmm… it seems that his performance ability suffered in the final round of the contest when he had to remove his headphones, which contestants were allowed to use to block out distractions. FISHY, EH? But for real, who rigs an elaborate headphone-radio-cheating system to win the National Sudoku Championships? And then OH WAIT. THE PLOT THICKENS. Apparently this dude raised eyebrows at the World Open Chess Championship in Philadelphia in 2006! Catty as ever, NPR claims that the alleged “Varshavsky” was playing “in a hooded sweatshirt”, which would clearly indicate his sketchiness, and they put quotation marks around his name because they don’t even know if it’s real. Do you even exist, Eugene Varshavsky!?!?!? Well, Sudoku-Chess-Cheater, whoever you are, we say: C’mon Son. Stop cheating nerds out of prize money, son.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pm.