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They get to the bottom of whether chess against a grandmaster could be won with remote-controlled sex toys

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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago

What if they just played the match in a Faraday cage? That should effectively block any signals afaik.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

People will find other ways to cheat. You can't really prepare for everything. That's why a buttplug remote control was in the news. Some years ago, one chess player was accused of hiding a chess engine in her lipstick, since she used it a lot as a tick.

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