CYBER: The Chess Scandal Involving Butt Plugs, AI, and Accusations of Cheating

CYBER: The Chess Scandal Involving Butt Plugs, AI, and Accusations of Cheating

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akenjk/cyber-the-chess-scandal-involving-butt-plugs-ai-and-accusations-of-cheating

Chess. Chess. Chess. You, the audience, quite literally asked for it. It’s the scandal that just won’t quit. On September 4 at a live Chess Tournament in St. Louis, chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen lost in a massive upset to young chess wiz Hans Niemann. This was not supposed to happen and almost immediately accusations and revelations about cheating have gotten wilder, involving AI driven cheating engines and buttplugs.

Throughout it all, Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler has kept pushing the story, watching every moment, and now he’s got a big scoop.