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0 pointsdmix3y ago0 comments

Is there a good summary by a chess expert on how he may or may not have cheated? (Ideally a video).

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In chess you cheat by receiving external assistance. Nowadays, especially at the high level, that assistance is basically always from a computer.

Other than that your guess is as good as mine as _how_ he could have received said assistance, I've seen some wild theories.

zikduruqe3y ago

What theories? That would be interesting to read.

A micro-vibrating motor in his shoe, buzzing morse code? f4 to g5 for example?

lacker3y ago

Yeah, they make devices like this for stage magicians, that you can simply buy online. For example:

https://illuminati-magic.com/products/thumper

Some of them seem small enough that they won't trigger a metal detector. Currently they don't constantly scan the playing hall for wireless activity, which is what you'd need to detect this in use. I bet they start scanning for wireless transmissions soon, though.

detaro3y ago

for some reason the wild theory in this particular instance has been "vibrating anal beads". No, I don't know why.

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esaym3y ago

Not really. The best you could hope for would to just be digging through the large threads on the subreddit: https://teddit.net/r/chess

ninth_ant3y ago

https://youtu.be/jfPzUgzrOcQ fits the bill

dmixOP3y ago

The video maker tweeted that their statistical analysis/math was wrong in that video after people called it out.

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