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Hans Niemann was accused of cheating after he beat Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen last September.

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[–] MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Uhhhmmm, I don’t want to be intrusive, but how exactly does one use small beads to cheat at chess? I’m trying to figure this out, …but I keep losing anyway.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mike Boyd did a video on this a while back and was able to successfully beat a pro chess player using a vibrator on his ankle:

https://piped.video/watch?v=5uDM3fPeNFM

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imagine Nieman's surprise once he discovered you were only supposed to put it on your ankle

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah. The whole comment section seems like it's super obvious... but seriously... how does one cheat with anal vibrators?

[–] DakkaDok@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's important to remember that he is certainly still very good at chess, even if he cheated in some games. He wouldn't need to have every move given to him, it might even be enough to give him a single signal that there is a non-obvious great move in a current position. Even just knowing that would probably be enough for him to find it by himself.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

That's a good point. You wouldn't need to send an entire move. If you simply sent a message indicating which piece is the best to move, the player probably can find the place to move that piece.

Didn’t you see the always sunny episode?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago