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From vibrating shoes to anal beads: the strange history of chess cheating
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21.04.2026ملخص الذكاء الاصطناعي

From vibrating shoes to anal beads: the strange history of chess cheating

This article explores two chess cheating scandals spanning 30 years: the 1993 Von Neumann Affair at the World Open in Philadelphia, where an unrated player using hidden technology in his shoes drew with grandmaster Helgi Ólafsson before fleeing after being asked to solve a puzzle; and the 2022 Hans Niemann controversy, detailed in Netflix documentary Untold: Chess Mates, where Niemann was accused of cheating against Magnus Carlsen using a sex toy. The piece examines how chess has transformed from an era when Garry Kasparov could beat any computer to today where grandmasters would lose to a novice with a phone.

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