From Dylan McClain’s blog at the New York Times…
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From Dylan McClain’s blog at the New York Times…
It will be intersting to learn how they did it.
First you would need to know what kind of cheating it involved. (I disagree with Dylan’s contention that the primary method is computer-aided analysis.)
Cheating in the form of assistance from stronger players can be very low-tech.
Some years ago a mother returning from a USCF National Scholastic event told me about the ‘chewing gum trick’:
A coach walks through the playing hall observing the games of all of his team members. On one pass he gives each team member a stick of chewing gum.
The players have been coached that if the chewing gum stick is intact, keep playing, but if it has been snapped in two, the player has a losing position and should offer a draw.
It could be a system like the one alleeged to have been used by Danilov with Topolov.
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Reminds me of Korchnoi’s contention that Karpov was being fed information encoded in the flavor of yogurt that Karpov was given (something like that), during their 1978 or 1981 title matches.
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Remember, just because you’re paranoid that doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you.
Wasn’t that Bobby Fischer’s motto?