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Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament
SternisheFan sends this quote from the Washington Post:
Gaioz Nigalidze's rise through the ranks of professional chess began in 2007, the year the first iPhone was released. In hindsight, the timing might not be coincidental. On Saturday, Nigalidze, the 25-year-old reigning Georgian champion, was competing in the 17th annual Dubai Open Chess Tournament when his opponent spotted something strange. "Nigalidze would promptly reply to my moves and then literally run to the toilet," Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosian said. "I noticed that he would always visit the same toilet partition, which was strange, since two other partitions weren't occupied." Petrosian complained to the officials. After Nigalidze left the bathroom once more, officials inspected the interior and say they found an iPhone wrapped in toilet paper and hidden behind the toilet. "When confronted, Nigalidze denied he owned the device," according to the tournament's Web site. "But officials opened the smart device and found it was logged into a social networking site under Nigalidze's account. They also found his game being analyzed in one of the chess applications." Nigalidze was expelled from the tournament, which is still ongoing and features more than 70 grandmasters from 43 countries competing for a first-place prize of $12,000. The Georgian's career is now under a microscope. His two national titles are under suspicion.
I think the real story here is that a Georgian man's cellphone became sentient and was using him as a proxy to enter chess tournaments. The phone is the real grandmaster here.
Apparently he opted for the logical partition, rather than the extended. Wise move.
"He's got the kind of moral fiber we're always looking for, that will to win."
- [insert name], CEO
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Chess tourneys should be played by naked participants in a large faraday cage.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
All they have to do is remember how many times a tourney he has really bad IBS and they'll have the answer to whether he cheated a lot or not.
they use iPhones for toilet paper.
There's an app for that.
There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
How can such a simpleton become the grandmaster? It belies imagination. Everyone knows the way to cheat at that level of chess tournament is to have a team analyze the game in the audience and have them send color coded yogurt to the player in the middle.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
He's not even a master cheater.
"Siri, what move should I make next?"
This guy used his iPhone to connect to the internet
It was probably connected to an Android phone in his car.
If he can argue his way out of the charges, he might be a masterdebater, though.
Stop being abusive. Honestly that post is very close to being a form of assault.
The reason there's a Women's Chess Championship is that it's a "safe space". All men are capable of rape. Even grandmasters. We need a separate chess league to keep us focused on the game and not distracted by the potential of being abused. It has nothing to do with being worse at chess. Women are not worse at chess. We're just as capable as men so clearly there's something wrong with the SYSTEM.
Also men are guided into chess by the educational system and women aren't. Men don't just start studying chess on their own. How many grandmasters ever learned by themselves or from books?
But clearly you wouldn't understand because you're too busy being an abusive, threatening white male.