Anurag Dikshit is a private, family man brought up in the Indian state of Jharkand who does not gamble but does enjoy chess.

For this unassuming software programmer and co-founder of PartyGaming, the past two years must have resembled a one-sided chess game, with the US Department of Justice swarming all over the board looking to capture vulnerable individuals in the stricken online gambling industry such as he.