Court Sentences Pirate to 5 Years

Pro chess player's software sidelight checkmated with jail term in Germany.

Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service
Thursday, July 22, 2004

Apparently Ralph Blasek didn't do a good job at plotting his next few moves.
The professional chess player, and presumed leader of Europe's largest known
software counterfeiting network, was sentenced Thursday by a German judge
with five and half years in prison without probation.

"This is checkmate to you, Blasek. The court wants to see your king fall,"
the judge said, according to sources close to the case who were in the
courtroom during sentencing.

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