Originally published at: Chess cheating gadget made with a Raspberry Pi Zero | Boing Boing
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While your opponent is distracted by the sockfish, you move some pieces?
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Never really understood the appeal of cheating. Is something wrong with me?
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There are similar shoe-computers for counting cards in blackjack. Don’t get caught though; Vegas casino owners are a lot more dangerous than chess players.
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There’s no real appeal, just a desperate need to win at the expense of getting any enjoyment or benefit from the contest. I suppose some people get a rush from designing the cheat itself (especially a fun and complex device with a good story like the one in the article), but otherwise it’s probably as “rewarding” as the umpteenth hit of meth is for a drug addict.
from the scuttlebutt it seems that to whatever extent Niemann had an unfair advantage, it was more likely by learning details of Carlsen’s game prep than by wearing a “sockfish” or similar device.
Spying on pre-game activity might be considered a bit of an unfair advantage but it seems to be a minor basis for Carlsen’s hissy-quit.
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Well, if you really want that game of Monopoly Monotony to end in any form of reasonable time, you really need to do some cheats
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The book focuses on a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, physics graduate students (known as the Eudaemons) who in the late 1970s and early 1980s designed and employed miniaturized computers, hidden in specially modified platform soled shoes, to help predict the outcome of casino roulette games.
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