Georgian chess champion and grandmaster Gaioz Nigalidze has been thrown out of the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after he was caught cheating, the Daily Mail reports. Nigalidze was found to have been checking moves on a phone hidden in the bathroom.

A man was arrested on Sunday after he confessed to killing and then eating his landlord's heart after a disagreement over a year-long chess game.

Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi took some time out of his busy schedule hiding from NATO bombs, fighting a war against his own people, and getting so high to play a game of chess with the president of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov yesterday in Tripoli. Russian news agency Interfax reports that Qaddafi and one of his sons went with the Sicilian Defense — a chess opening that is described as "combative." How fitting. He also said there's no way he's leaving Libya.

Iran's grandmaster of chess, 28-year-old Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, claims to have broken the Guinness world record for simultaneous games yesterday in Tehran, according to AFP. Maghami faced 614 opponents in just over 25 hours — winning 590, or 96 percent of the games. He also paced around the tables for a total of 34 miles.

Weirdo chess champion Bobby Fischer's body was exhumed in Iceland so police could determine if he was the father of a 9 year-old Filipino girl. This could help resolve a dispute over Fischer's $2 million estate. (Fiscer left no will.)

Chess champion Bobby Fischer's body was exhumed in Iceland today in an effort to determine if he was the father of a 9-year-old girl, Jinky Young, from the Philippines. He died in 2008 and did not leave a will. [AP]

They say bickering intensifies as stakes diminish; this helps explain the enmity engulfing the U.S. Chess Federation. A struggle over board seats turned into a flurry of lawsuits, all rooted in the following obscene and allegedly faked internet postings.