It was a big day for 19-year-old American chess player Hans Niemann when he defeated the world champion, possibly with help from a remote-controlled sex toy.
Every so often, a news story comes along that appears too good to be true, as if a rogue editor has dropped a bunch of random, enticing words into a headline generator and waited to see what it would spit out.
The scandal involves two polite enough looking chess players: world champion Magnus Carlsen and teen prodigy Hans Niemann. As for Elon Musk and the sex toy?Your move? Magnus Carlsen and his bitter chess rival, Hans Niemann.OK, so on the one hand, we have Magnus Carlsen, a five-time World Chess Champion from Norway, who looks like the kind of guy who might offer you financial advice at a dinner party.
That is a bit suspicious. But how do you cheat in chess, though? Isn’t everyone watching you all of the time?Stay with me. So the world’s best computer chess program, Stockfish, is now far better than any human player. One of the most popular theories doing the rounds, propelled by Elon Musk, is that Niemann was using wireless vibrating anal beads to read signals from a computer chess engine, like Stockfish, about what moves he should make.BloombergYes. The Tesla founder is a big chess guy.