football is back, baby!

 

Meanwhile, in the world of competitive Chess:

 

old newspaper clipping my dad found from the york fair years ago. 

 

3 hours ago, mr_hunt said:

football is back, baby!

 

The burning car at the end was perfect lmao

57 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Meanwhile, in the world of competitive Chess:

 

Haven't read the article and I've only loosely followed the headlines on this, but the anal beads theory is predicated on the the anal beads device giving him the correct moves via pulses, but how exactly does the theory explain how the device receives updated board status? It would require a 3rd party to view the board and then input all moves and signal them over to the beads device kinda like in the movie Casino. Which if that's the case, can be easily ruled out by having him play in private. Seems much more likely that the grandmaster just had a bad day and this dude lucked into a couple decent positions which spiraled from there.

14 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Haven't read the article and I've only loosely followed the headlines on this, but the anal beads theory is predicated on the the anal beads device giving him the correct moves via pulses, but how exactly does the theory explain how the device receives updated board status? It would require a 3rd party to view the board and then input all moves and signal them over to the beads device kinda like in the movie Casino. Which if that's the case, can be easily ruled out by having him play in private. Seems much more likely that the grandmaster just had a bad day and this dude lucked into a couple decent positions which spiraled from there.

Isn’t chess timed? Would he have enough time to have all that happen and remember what each vibration means? 

Chess masters are always emotion wrecks lmao.

2 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

Isn’t chess timed? Would he have enough time to have all that happen and remember what each vibration means? 

Not sure how the big tournaments are run, but pretty sure your timer is for total moves for that match and theoretically, you can take much more time for late-game critical moves than the more trivial early-game positional moves. Meaning, once you get to a point in the game where moves become more impactful on the final outcome, you could simply choose to cheat only at that point, rather than during the less important early game moves used to set up your strategy.

As for the vibrations, all chess moves are already coded, and if even if you're using a rudimentary signaling protocol like morse code, if you're fluent enough, you can bang out the moves quicker than you might think. The problem I see isn't signaling the moves from the computer into the player, it's feeding the state of all pieces on the board into the computer. In other words, the amount of information to be passed into the computer is far larger than the output it spits out which can be as small as this: Q-G7

hero or tool...you decide.

 

nsfw with some f-bombs.