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How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer

First time accepted submitter Shaterri writes "Which is more likely: that a low-ranked player could play through a high-level tournament at grandmaster level, or that they were getting undetected assistance from a computer? How about when that player is nearly strip-searched with no devices found? How about when their moves correlate too well with independent computer calculations? Ken Regan has a fascinating article on one of the most complex (potential) cheating cases to come along in recent memory."

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  1. Re:Closed Room + Faraday Cage by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd be surprised where you can stick a Raspberry Pi, you really would.

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  2. It's simple by Megane · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's being haunted by the ghost of a grandmaster chess player!

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  3. Re:Closed Room + Faraday Cage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Faraday CageMatch!

  4. Solution by Eisenfaust · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hold the tournament on a commercial airliner that repeatedly takes off and lands. Certainly if someone on board the plane was using an electronic device during take off or landing something terrible would happen ;)

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  5. Re:Simply put.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please stop referring to yourself in plural. Only the Queen and we, Anonymous Coward, are allowed to do that.

  6. Re:Closed Room + Faraday Cage by deander2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    in your pi hole? =P

  7. Re:Closed Room + Faraday Cage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay, so, Closed Room + Faraday Cage + Both Competitors Sealed Inside Solid Bricks of 3 meter thick Lead Shielding + Absolute Zero Temperature + Complete Vacuum + Both Competitors Blinded, Muted, Deafened, and Lobotomized.

    That oughta make chess fair again. For realz, yo.

  8. Re:Simply put.. by xswl0931 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or a computer who looks like a human...