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Grandmaster calls out fellow chess player, says he “was doing PIPI in your pampers”

The 2020 PRO Chess League finals involved some Wrestlemania-level dramathat most people would never consider could come out of the starched and cerebral world of chess. Two teams faced off against each other in the semi-finals and finals of the Chess.com-hosted series. The Saint Louis Arch Bishops team counted Wesley So among their number. So is a three-time U.S. and Philippine chess champion. They faced off against the Armenian Eagles which included Igran Petrosian, a grandmaster and two-time national champion. When the Eagles eventually took home the top prize, So alleged that Petrosian had cheated during his games.

Not likely to take such an allegation lying down, Petrosian went online and posted some of the most infantile responses possible.

“You was doing PIPI in your pampers when I was being players much more stronger then [sic] you!” Petrosian wrote.

Petrosian invited So to a winner-take-all blitz match, and So responded that he’d take him on.

Yet before that rematch Chess.com got involved, and after an investigation concluded Petrosian “violated fair play regulations” during games in both the semifinal and final matches. Chess.com and the PRO Chess League handed a lifetime ban to Petrosian, though neither organization ever clarified what exactly the player had done to earn his ban.

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