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Genuine question: How would the watch help the opponent? Presumably the watch could only relay a very limited amount of data to the opponent that he could utili
by rcarr 3y ago
Genuine question: How would the watch help the opponent? Presumably the watch could only relay a very limited amount of data to the opponent that he could utilise without arousing suspcion? And presumably with the way tech is going, you could probably have some kind of implantable or worn device that could relay the same information that you'd struggle to detect. For example, you could have some kind of small device implanted or worn over the calf that gave off some kind of morse code style vibrations to indicate where to move the piece to, first giving off a number:
1 - pawn
2 - rook
3 - knight
4 - bishop
5 - queen
6 - king
Followed by a pause, followed by another vibration series between 1 - 8 for column, followed by a pause, followed by another 1 - 8 vibration series for row. I don't see how such a device would be feasibly detected. I'm not a radio engineer so I don't know but wouldn't you have to have every chess match played in a Faraday cage to protect against it?
- skywhopper 3y agoChess experts say you don’t need to telegraph full moves. Simply indicating that a certain position is crucial or that they should spend more time on a specific move (because there’s some pattern they haven’t detected yet) might be enough. You only need a simple signal to do that. In the past, folks have cheated by having audience plants cough at specific times so that’s a similar amount of potential bandwidth.