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[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t fucking read

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann dies using vibrating sex toy to cheat

[–] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago

Had it coming

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

He died doing what he loved...

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] kobra@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I saw the episode I had no idea it was based on a real life story 🤯😆

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it's not real. It's a meme that serious journalists are asking him about.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, he has cheated before, he's admitted that. So it's at least partially real.

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess we're anal vibe people now

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That was definitely the most "sunny" episode of the season in my mind.. Absolutely classic

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  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.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nakamura said in a podcast all he would need to know is that there is a winning move and he'd be able to find it.

So, just one buzz is enough that says "in this position there is a move that wins the game".

Kinda like everyone's ratings in puzzles is higher than in elo because by the very nature of the puzzle there is a winning sequence to find.

In play, if I don't spot a winning tactic I just move to (try to) improve my position. In puzzles if I don't spot a winning tactic, I look again, and again, and again....

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, that would be easier to keep track, and less risk of accidentally cumming.

[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Now that's dedication to winning the sport. Ingenuity knows no bounds.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I see, a wide array of skills and strict organisation.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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

[–] bobman@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's a very shittily written article.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheChurn@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  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.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No vibrating butt plugs were used in his win.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Isn't that almost like a L?

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Did they check for vibrating cock rings?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year 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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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Are the chess groupies really worth it?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

So... I assume it was inflatable then?

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year 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.