Lmao

 

8 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Lmao

I lost any sliver of respect I had for him when I found out he puts steaks on a cold grill.

 

12 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

1,2

22 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

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

The games are broadcast live, so it wouldn't take much for a friend of his to be following the game and using Stockfish's analysis. At critical moments he could simply send a pulse (don't ask me how this would be done, I'm talking theory) that indicated piece and a square. You could send a "315" and the player would know he means to move whatever piece 3 is to a5. 

Niemann has been caught cheating in online chess before, so he's always going to be viewed with suspicion.

Just now, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

The games are broadcast live, so it wouldn't take much for a friend of his to be following the game and using Stockfish's analysis. At critical moments he could simply send a pulse (don't ask me how this would be done, I'm talking theory) that indicated piece and a square. You could send a "315" and the player would know he means to move whatever piece 3 is to a5. 

Niemann has been caught cheating in online chess before, so he's always going to be viewed with suspicion.

In that case, then yeah the accomplice could be watching live and then would have to be close enough to the tournament room to signal in the moves to the player (similar to the analogy from my previous post that references the movie Casino.) If this is the theorized form of cheating, the easiest way to rule this out is to have the suspected player conduct matches in private without public spectators. 

20 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

Funny you should post that, I just read this on Friday:  When The Pandemic Came, The Zoos Closed, And The Animals Began to Act Differently

1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

In that case, then yeah the accomplice could be watching live and then would have to be close enough to the tournament room to signal in the moves to the player (similar to the analogy from my previous post that references the movie Casino.) If this is the theorized form of cheating, the easiest way to rule this out is to have the suspected player conduct matches in private without public spectators. 

I heard the broadcast is on a 15 minute delay to cut down on that sort of thing 

Just now, BFit said:

I heard the broadcast is on a 15 minute delay to cut down on that sort of thing 

You mean it was always that way or they changed it after this incident?

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

You mean it was always that way or they changed it after this incident?

Always that way. Or at least that's what the article I saw said

5 minutes ago, BFit said:

Always that way. Or at least that's what the article I saw said

Then that rules out a spectator watching the live feed as a potential accomplice. So we're back to someone in the room with a clear view of the board being able to somehow discreetly input board states into their phone or something without anyone catching on, or the dude just caught the other guy on a bad day and beat him straight up.

4 hours ago, paco said:

I lost any sliver of respect I had for him when I found out he puts steaks on a cold grill.

What kind of monster.......

1 hour ago, paco said:

Funny you should post that, I just read this on Friday:  When The Pandemic Came, The Zoos Closed, And The Animals Began to Act Differently

So you're saying they're not exhibitionists..

28 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

What kind of monster.......

Dude is the worst on the grill