Chess.com has banned Nikhil Kamath, the co-founder of Zerodha, after his shocking win against 5-time world champion GM Viswanathan Anand with 99% accuracy. The reason for the ban appears to be a "Violation of Fair-play Policy," according to the platform.The year-long lockdown in India has forced people, especially the youth, to find new forms of entertainment. Thanks to the chess community and influencers like Samay Raina and IM Sagar Shah, online chess has increased significantly in the country.Considering this, Chess.com recently hosted a charity event to raise COVID-relief funds for those affected in India. The event, called Checkmate COVID (celebrity edition), featured multiple prominent personalities, including Nikhil Kamath, Viswanathan Anand, Aamir Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala, Manu Kumar Jain, and more.Chess.com bans Nikhil Kamath for violating Fair-Play PolicyMassive THANK YOU to everyone for making this event a grand success! 🙌🏻We are glad to share that we managed to raise more than 10 Lakhs from this event! @AkshayaPatraNote that you can still make a difference by donating here and help us #CheckmateCovidhttps://t.co/mgOmSwr54n pic.twitter.com/fZxZAGrleR— Chess.com - India (@chesscom_in) June 13, 2021Chess.com India organized 'Checkmate COVID' on its official YouTube channel on June 13th, 2021. The pandemic fundraiser raised over ₹10 lakhs during the live stream, making the event a huge success.The first set of celebs who played against Vishy Anand were defeated, with the exception of Nikhil Kamath. He showed brilliant tactics and succeeded in finding game-changing moves when required.THE CELEBS ARE HERE!!!https://t.co/VeTsWrSZTf@vishy64theking @KicchaSudeep @yuzi_chahal @NGEMovies @Riteishd @nikhilkamathcio With our hosts: @ReheSamay & @TaniaSachdev Feel free to donate here: @AkshayaPatra https://t.co/mgOmSwr54n pic.twitter.com/D2jiiY7c6i— Chess.com - India (@chesscom_in) June 13, 2021The audience, however, was not convinced that Vishy could be trounced. Especially when Nikhil's accuracy turned out to be 99%, the viewers and the chess community took the matter seriously. The match was so unbelievable that the popular International Chess YouTuber, Agadmator, released a post-match analysis.After the match ended, viewers discovered that Nikhil's Chess.com account was banned for violating Fair-Play policy. The news spread like wildfire on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter before Nikhil responded to the cheating allegations.So the Zerodha CEO Nikhil Kamath played a charity chess match against Visvanathan Anand for COViD relief.Gamed the system to win.Got his chess profile banned.A little shameful to cheat to win against a World champ. pic.twitter.com/67GvU2j6tD— MB (@desiboho) June 13, 2021Nikhil stated the following in his latest tweet:"Yesterday was one of those days that I had dreamt of when I was a really young kid learning chess, to interact with Vishwanath Anand. Got the opportunity thanks to Akshaypatra and their idea of raising funds for charity conducting a bunch of chess games with Vishy. It is ridiculous that so many are thinking that I really beat Vishy in a chess game, that is almost like me waking up and winning a 100mt race with Usain Bolt."He further added that,"I had help from the people analyzing the game, computers and the graciousness of Anand sir himself to treat the game as a learning experience. This was for fun and charity. In hindsight, it was quite silly as I didn't realise all the confusion that can get caused due to this. Apologies..."It was all pre-planned, and his motive was to 'treat the game as a learning experience,' added Nikhil, in his apology.The 5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand himself replied to the drama and stated that he had just continued the position on the board while sustaining the ethics of chess.Yesterday was a celebrity simul for people to raise money It was a fun experience upholding the ethics of the game.I just played the position onthe board and expected the same from everyone . pic.twitter.com/ISJcguA8jQ— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) June 14, 2021Other than Anand, other notable personalities in the Chess community also reacted to the incident.I must admit, chesscom does have an amazing fairplay detection system pic.twitter.com/4bFIFaHyf5— Srinath Narayanan (@nsrinath69) June 13, 2021After blundering pawn in first move (1.Nf3 e5) I wonder which friend could beat @vishy64theking. Of course Anand didn't know anything apart from the strength of the engine. Respect for Anand keeps growing. Amazing composure and sportsmanship by the #legend. Ridiculous indeed :) https://t.co/0DLfJSFUzI— Surya Sekhar Ganguly (@suryachess64) June 14, 2021Oh 'fish', he has a company that deals with 'stock' 😄 https://t.co/hIlHIbC8Ex— Srinath Narayanan (@nsrinath69) June 14, 2021I must admit, chesscom does have an amazing fairplay detection system pic.twitter.com/4bFIFaHyf5— Srinath Narayanan (@nsrinath69) June 13, 2021