{"id":1061699,"date":"2022-10-06T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1061699"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:09:06","slug":"adafruits-cheekmate-gets-to-the-bottom-ahem-of-chess-cheating-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1061699","title":{"rendered":"Adafruit\u2019s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The clever folks at Adafruit tested their Cheekmate chess-cheating prototype by embedding it in a slab of pork butt. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Internet has been abuzz for weeks about a particularly juicy chess cheating controversy<\/a> that erupted last month. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost in the third round to a 19-year-old upstart, Hans Niemann, in what was widely considered to be a shocking upset. Carlsen withdrew from the tournament the next day, and his cryptic comments on Twitter fueled rampant speculation that Niemann had cheated. The fact that Niemann admitted to cheating<\/a> in online chess matches didn’t help his case, but he steadfastly insisted he never cheated in over-the-board games.<\/p>\n

The fierce debate eventually produced a bizarre viral conspiracy theory that Niemann had used anal beads<\/a> to receive coded messages during the match. But would that even be possible? The folks at Adafruit Industries were sufficiently intrigued to put the theory to the test\u2014you know, just to get to the bottom of the matter. The result is a prototype device called Cheekmate<\/a>\u2014because the Adafruit team rightfully loves their punny innuendoes\u2014complete with a step-by-step guide for those who might want to build their own prototype.<\/p>\n

This device, Adafruit insists, is not for actual cheating: “That would be asinine\u2026 in brief, a stain on the sport, but to record for posterior whether this sort of backdoor intrusion is even plausible or just an Internet myth.” Lacking any willing human volunteers to test the prototype, they ended up embedding Cheekmate in a big, juicy slab of pork butt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Adafruit\u2019s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The clever folks at Adafruit tested their Cheekmate chess-cheating prototype by embedding it in a slab of pork butt. The Internet has been abuzz for weeks about a particularly juicy chess cheating controversy that erupted last month. The reigning chess … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1061699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}