• theinspectorst
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    319 months ago

    I love that they actually turned this into an episode of It’s Always Sunny - it was entirely believable as the sort of scheme the gang would come up with.

  • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    179 months ago

    I didn’t know the meme or who this person is, and I know about as much about vibrating sex toys as I know about chess- just the basics, I’m not an expert.

    1. how can someone cheat at chess?
    2. how can someone cheat at chess using a vibrator???
    • @cyd@lemmy.world
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      439 months ago
      1. Have an accomplice feeding the game into a computer to figure out the best move to make next.

      2. Send the information to the chess player using Morse code butt vibrations.

    • bbbbbbbbbbb
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      59 months ago
      1. you use a super genius AI
      2. you stick it in the ass, and have your partner play a genius AI, partner mimicking the real opponents moves, then somehow coordinate the AIs move to you using the vibrator.

      Its convoluted but technically not impossible

  • Sibbo
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    169 months ago

    Why did anyone even listen to this bullshit. This must be the biggest case of bullying of modern times.

    • TheChurn
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      509 months ago
      1. Hans has admitted to cheating in the past
      2. Hans played a near-perfect game as black against the best player in the world who hadn’t lost as white in years
      3. Hans made some suspiciously good moves quickly, without much time passing
      4. Magnus played a very rare opening that Hans was somehow able to perfectly respond to without skipping a beat

      From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus’ prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.

  • SeaJOP
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    89 months ago

    No vibrating butt plugs were used in his win.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    89 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    An American grandmaster who was part of a row which rattled the world of chess has denied using a vibrating sex toy to cheat.

    In September 2022 Hans Niemann sat down to play Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in chess’s Sinquefield Cup St Louis, Missouri.

    Niemann won, but was accused by Carlsen of cheating - a claim which sparked a huge legal row between the pair.

    On Monday evening, Niemann spoke to Piers Morgan Uncensored about the scrutiny he has faced since being accused of cheating.

    Niemann admitted that he had cheated twice in online matches on Chess.com aged 12 and 16, but denied he had done so in the Sinquefield Cup or any in-person game.

    Last month, Chess.com said it stood by its report on Niemann, “including that we found no determinative evidence that he has cheated in any in-person games”.


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  • mintiefresh
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    39 months ago

    I remember all these headlines from last year. Ironically it made Chess more famous imo. I suddenly had so many friends mentioning chess to me because of this lol.