Is this cheating ?

Ok. Now I can give you my name. I had first tournament in this year on January, 8. I took first place in this tournament. It was one open section. I did draw with the real master. And I did draw with the one expert. The name of the tournament is "Tornament #1". It was in Latham, NY, USA. You can check http://www.enyca.org/ . They will place the result crosstable on this week. I'll give the link on this crosstable too. My name is Serge Nizhegorodtsev.

There is a crosstable http://www.enyca.org/crosstables/ct2005/sob_2005.html

By all means play computers to prepare and learn but we joined this site to play against people. Do you use a wordfind finder sitting at the scrabble board? a. not unless you have mutual consent and your opponents desire to use the same facility.

What I don't get is, why would someone cheat? There is no monetary reward at stake. What's the payoff? A bunch of people you'll never meet think you're pretty good at chess?