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Could you hide a bone-conducting bluetooth speaker in your big hair? This way the computer could speak the instructions and confirm the inputs.

How about the controls being inside your mouth at the top. The tongue is very agile. But it might be difficult to tolerate. You could use a local anesthetic spray before.

[Tenoke]

>Could you hide a bone-conducting bluetooth speaker in your big hair?

You don't really even need that. You only need to communicate a handful of bits. Morse code using small zaps/pressure anywhere on/in your body is sufficent.

[_Algernon_]

>in your body

Only a question of time before someone gets caught cheating with a vibrating buttplug.

[sireat]

1993 had the John von Neumann affair (I played in 1994 World Open so missed out on the fun) where the player had huge dreadlocks, presumably hiding headphones.

"At the World Open 1993 in Philadelphia a completely unknown player appeared, unsubtly calling himself John von Neumann. He played excellently, drawing against GM Helgi Olafsson in the second round. But in round four he suddenly stopped at move nine and lost on time."

"Von Neumann won a prize in the category of players without an Elo rating. Naturally people had become suspicious of this unknown and highly unorthodox player. Before the organisers handed over the $800 check they asked him to solve a simple chess puzzle. He refused, turned and left, and has never been seen again at chess tournaments"

Who was he and who was his assistant? Personal computers were not quite at the GM level in 1993.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/a-history-of-cheating-in-che-2

[Victerius]

If I was the tournament organizer, all games would be held inside windowless, sound proof rooms doubling as Faraday cages with thick concrete walls, electronic jammers outside to prevent any radio communications, and no one but cleared staff members inside. The players would also be subjected to multiple rounds of metal detectors.

[YetAnotherNick]

Can metal detector detect a gram of Silicon(except transistor I think there are non metallic replacement for everything)? Also, many players bring their own beverage in their container. Seems pretty steep to ban everything for a small minority of cheater.

[Victerius]

Can a computer small enough to contain a chess engine be fitted into one gram?

The players beverages would also have to be taken out of their original container and transferred into a tournament-provided container.

[YetAnotherNick]

IBM has 1mm * 1mm chip comparable in performance to 1990 Intel, likely much lower in weight than 1g along with photovoltaic cell for power[0]. I don't think this is enough for beating Magnus, but it could at least find tactics.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/19/17140116/i....

[rvba]

For me it is unbelievable that it is not done that way already.

It is like hearing about ambassadors who dont implement strict rules to defend the embassy against spies.