


“Basically you just need someone with an iPhone.”īecause in chess, technology has changed everything. “You don’t need somebody as good as a grandmaster to assist you,” he says. More to the point is, Short adds, it is an approach that does not require a huge degree of skill in its application. “I read that a journalist was trying this out against a grandmaster while wearing a vibrating c-k ring, you know, and I can see it working.” “I know it sounds preposterous, all these vibrating anal beads, but I think it would actually work,” Short tells Telegraph Sport from his home in Athens.

But the British grandmaster Nigel Short is not so sure. Many tittered at the Musk theory, which has never been confirmed. He had secreted in his person, Musk posited, anal beads, which, connected by bluetooth to an outside assistant, vibrated at appropriate intervals to advise him what move to make. When the five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen accused his opponent Hans Niemann of cheating after a Sinquefield Cup match in St Louis in September, Elon Musk proffered a mischievous theory about how the American teenage prodigy had actually gone about his subterfuge. The Hans Niemann scandal has rocked the world of chess, where players undergo security scans to detect for potential devices From anal beads to iPhone apps – the sordid world of chess cheats
