GM Benjamin Tan denies accusation that he has been the beneficial party of a "match-fixing scandal". Said the Singaporean superstar on sunday, "the pairings are entirely up to the officials, I have no knowledge whatsoever of how things are done in the courtyard, and certainly there are no words exchanged behind closed doors, I don't know where those rumours came from and why it was brought up in the first place, but I find the whole incident offending to my reputation and its level of ridicule is totally off the scale".
The incident rose because of fellow participant at Sunday's National Fair Cup Championship, B-Division had found Ben to be paired up against "easier" opponent. They smelled a rat when he was consistantly up against people lesser of his calibre, something which GM Ben ruled out, "there are certainly no easy opponent here, everyone who made it here has something to show".
Despite the outbreak of the rumor Ben managed to keep a cool head and finished in the top 5 zone with a 5.5 points out of a possible 7 - in front of approxiamately 115 participants.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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