This is a not too serious look at the myriad forms of cheating in chess, including intentional and unintentional cheating and legal and illegal cheating. It looks at some historical cheating incidents, including the story of the chess playing machine in the 1800s. It explains some the reasons why the chess clock was invented. Included is cheating in various forms of chess including in OTB (over the board chess), correspondence chess, online chess, blitz, simuls etc. It looks at cheating in world championship matches. It includes issues such as passive smoking in chess events, computer cheating, the story of dunny gate and many other stories.