>Bulgarian chess player Borislav Ivanov had a pretty good run at a tournament in Zadar, Croatia last month. He came in third with a record of 5-1-2, earning 60 tournament points while defeating four grandmasters and a "strong master." The only problem is that he's a low-ranked master who since mid-2011 had earned just one single tournament point. His FIDE rating, which had previously peaked at 2227 in 2011, shot up to 2342 this month.

>That has an awful lot of chess observers convinced that he's cheating. He was reportedly "strip searched" at the tournament, although it turned out that he just had to remove his shirt, turn out his pockets and submit his pen for inspection, but nothing was found. Even so, Croatian grandmaster Zlatko Klaric insisted that some kind of shenanigans were going on.

>"Ivanov is chess [computer] programmer, who since mid-2011 until now had won only one rating point, while at the Zadar tournament he won 60. He made moves like a computer, which was obvious in the game vs Jovanovic," he said. "Technologies are so developed now that theoretically, since the games were aired live, Ivanov's friends in the neighboring room, from Sofia, or even from the Antarctic, could have sent him hints for his moves through chips, which could have been placed under the skin, in the ear, or in the teeth."

In another article, he said he was accused of using satellite technology. It is claimed by CIA insiders that satellites can be used not only to transit information, but also to confuse opponents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30seQeBI-Tc

Another expert claims these technologies were used by Britain in the Olympics to tire out competing countries' athletes and psychologically manipulate them.

www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vtlkm

Are RF meters used to detect such shenadigans or are chess players behind in this technology. Elon Musk is developing smart dust which can create an interface between human mind and AI - cyborgs. How will we detect the cyborgs during physical games?

As inventors invent new ways to cheat in high stakes tournaments, there will be a great demand for countermeasures.

In the ivanov case, they almost caught him, but he refused to remove his shoes.

Although this is like a garry kasparov and a 100 rated player, the difference between the cheating you're describing here and the cheating you purported to be happening with that user you accused, who made horrific mistakes left and right, but you didn't see any of them.

Thanks for posting an informative post in addition to the snarky one. Did you ever come up with an explanation how a player gets to the rank 1900 within a week (so is that winning at least 70 games) and then loses 800 points in the next two weeks? Who knows maybe his wife left him and it is not users "farming" points like they do in Warcraft ...

I'm actually more interested in mind reading technology being used to cheat in physical games as well as University exams. You can see them using a Russian device to project information into a persons head of the form of a sinuisodal graph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651EOeD4Lhw

Here you can see many people claiming they are beta testers (without consent) for this new tehcnology the CIA/military is developing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcLRIFVRO0

How many Chess grandmasters have nervous breakdowns/develop schizophrenia? This is a common symptom of CIA experimentation.

What counter measures do you propose? Do they even ban WIFI at chess tournaments?

I got a pm with some interesting insights. I wonder if some users are afraid to post in this thread, you know like how medieval peasants were afraid of science (because witchcraft was "evil" or whatever). You're afraid of looking gullible or schizophrenic, or even worse, afraid that remote neural monitoring is real. Scary science, better to stick to the world you understand, just like the peasants should stick to farming.

Anyway the first point of skepticism: the brain is too complex to decode. However we have experiments where visual images, and even dreams, can be decoded and presented on screen.

The second point, that you can't communicate anything more than  clicks. In fact there is experiments and patents for projecting voices into peoples heads using microwave radiation.

I don't get it.

 Maybe they kept strip searching him because he was sexy and "cheating" was the excuse.

Well, I don't take trolls / highly ridiculous posts too seriously. I usually ignore them, but when I can make a bunch of counterpoints, I like to do that. I'm not snarky towards serious posts.

What really speaks is that you were still trying to claim your opponent was cheating after he hung a queen (en prise, no tactic even) and you failed to see it.

This thread just seems like an extension of the fact you're not willing to accept that you were just mad at losing a ton of rating points to someone who seemed to beat you effortlessly.

Is Elon Musk trolling us guys? I think this guy is just mad that NASA beat him by like 50 years of whatever. Effortlessly.

>Elon Musk is setting up a company that will link brains and computers

>The ultimate goal would be a “neural lace” to enhance people’s cognitive abilities.

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/03/elon-musk-is-setting-up-a-company-that-will-link-brains-and-computers/

Btw Cherub how do you know someone is mad without them posting a screenshot of their facial expression?

It's getting hot in here ...

>Then, at the same tournament, competitor Andres Holgado Maestre spotted a "suspicious bump" under Mr Ivanov's shirt, officials said. He later grabbed the bump and claimed "he could touch an oblong object, similar to an MP3 player, attached to Mr Ivanov's body".

>After a third incident in which Ivanov was strip searched and officials spotted "a kind of strap crossing his chest", the Bulgarian left the competition – voluntarily.

Sexy.

The same way I know that someone who hangs their queen isn't using an engine. Or if they were, well you should be thankful.

If you weren't mad, you were certainly embarrassed, one of those rather equivalent things.

>The same way I know that someone who hangs their queen isn't using an engine. 

Except not. I can for example if I'm losing a game start using an engine for the later part.

>If you weren't mad, you were certainly embarrassed, one of those rather equivalent things.

How do you know? I lost 6 matches to a different guy and only drew once with him, despite him being 100 points below me. I'm not embarrassed to say that.

I like how you insist that I'm both emotional (and you somehow know) but at the same time the Government reading your mind is impossible. Next time you want to allege I'm butthurt, claim you work for the NSA and the satellite objectively measured me to be so.

Please do not discuss cheating on the public forums. However, feel free to discuss this topic further in the Cheating Forum!

Regards!