Chess champ who hid phone in bathroom stall banned for 3 years

NEWS JUST BROKE LESS THAN 30 MINUTES AGO (Originally feature on Beginners and Masters, view the article here)

Kirill Shevchenko, who became a chess GM at just 14 years old, has received a 3-year ban from professional chess after being caught using a cellphone in a toilet during a match. He is currently ranked 75th in the world.

What do you think of this decision to ban the GM for cheating?

It seems a 3-year sentence is light, given he was literally caught red handed cheating during a match. How will he ever be trust again? What was the logic in giving him just a three year ban for something this egregious? 

I personally think the ban was too light. How you going get only 3 years for straight up cheating during a match?

https://www.chess.com/news/view/kirill-shevchenko-admits-cheating-incident-handed-3-year-suspension-by-fide

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but its a forum discussion

Um who looked over his stall while he was doing business???????!!!!

Probably has a suspicion he was doing it because he kept going to the bathroom. My guess is they waited for him to leave the stall, then searched the stall and found the phone w/ the records of the game on it.

That grandmaster is a bad hider.

i think given all the mitigating factors involved , the sentence was reasonable. Cheating is enough a danger in this day and age to threaten the integrity of top events but i also dont want the governing bodies to be so gung-ho on being anti-cheating that they ruin lives for nothing either.

I can see where you're coming from. I suppose since he admitted to the cheating (after being caught, that is) if you hand him a life-ban, others would be less likely to admit if they are ever caught cheating in fear of being banned forever.