While I personally had Sarg on my "blacklist" (merely do to his style of press, because I did not care for it at all, not because I thought he was a cheat), I must join those in saying he was a good player and it makes no sense to me why he would have cheated. In last October's ABI, where I placed Sarg in a fully anonymous game he shared a three-way draw with the most centers. Sarg then played in the consolation finals of that tournament and got a solo, which I was equally shocked and impressed with. All that said, glad he got banned based on what the mods have described, I don't buy into the argument that if he contributed to the site he should get a longer leash when it comes to cheating, that will only encourage/tempt the multitude of quality players on this site to try cheating themselves... Well, probably not, since cheaters are a rare breed, especially amongst those that do reasonably well, pride can be quite motivating (especially compared to meaningless/empty success from cheating), but I digress...