The best approach would be to apply some simple countermeasures like banning electronic devices and observing players’ behaviour and letting the really smart cheaters win. For the “output” channel there are numerous possibilities for a miniature device receiving signals of any nature and transducing them somehow to player’s senses – or even an accomplice among the audience giving coded signals. Often a covert input channel to the chess software is not needed at all as tournaments get transmitted live on various online chess services. Even if these were banned, one could, for one example, record one’s moves on paper with a rigged pen that transmits it’s movements (I’ve read about a commercial product like that once). ![]() I shouldn’t have to explain to the readers of this blog what possibilities it creates. ![]() It will kill the whole fun.īarring that, it will be always possible to set up some covert channel to an accomplice running chess software.Īpparently some chess federations allow using PDAs or similar devices with “approved” software to record one’s moves. The chess tournaments aren’t going to be held in military-grade TEMPEST-shielded bunkers nor the players are going to be strip- and cavity searched.
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