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Future chess games will have to be played as Faraday cage matches. Two men enter, one man leaves.
by kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
Future chess games will have to be played as Faraday cage matches. Two men enter, one man leaves.
- gosub100 1y agoThis makes me want to cheat just as a technical challenge. Could I hide a computer in my hair? Could I ingest a capsule computer and communicate with it using the resonance of my teeth chattering? (No, I would not insert one in an inappropriate place). I'm sure it would be a downer that I cheated but it would do them a favor by saying: "look, you cannot stop it. Time for something new".
- zikduruqe 1y agoYou'd love NASCAR then. It's not really cheating in NASCAR, but rather, "it wasn't in the rulebook". Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ4nBrp6mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ4nBrp6mo
- zippyman55 1y agoHide a computer in your chess clock. A small camera would view the board and somehow flash a code on the lcd display of the clock.
- omegaham 1y agoSince even a phone has enough processing power to make Stockfish play better than a super-GM, the Faraday cage isn't enough to prevent, say, someone tapping the position into a computer on their person and feeling for some sort of vibration[1] in response. It takes very little information to represent a position, and commentators have pointed out that the minimum amount of information required to produce a decisive advantage is 1 bit ("A winning move exists"). [1] Yes, the ribald jokes have already been made