Recently, after chess player Yan won the 2023 National Chess Folk Competition championship, he was caught in a scandal involving suspected cheating using smart "anal beads" in the competition, triggering heated discussions among netizens. What is the truth? The Chinese Chess Association immediately launched an investigation and provided the results of the investigation.

Yan is a registered chess player in Henan Province. On December 18, 2023, he won the national folk chess championship. After returning to the hotel, he was found defecating in the hotel bathtub.

It was originally a relatively personal matter. At first, the hotel handled the matter by offering a cleaning fee of 100 yuan. Later, as the matter spread more and more widely, the Xiangqi Association became involved in the investigation.

After investigation, the association confirmed the fact that he defecated at will, and issued a notice on December 25, depriving him of the championship title, not paying bonuses, and banning him for one year.

The reason is that the behavior of casual defecation damages the public property of the hotel, violates moral etiquette, and has a very negative impact on the competition and the chess project.

After the report came out, he defecated in the bathtub, and with such a severe punishment, some netizens thought that he had cheated by stuffing smart anal beads during the competition, and chose the bathtub after the competition in order to relieve himself. Now that he was discovered, he was deprived of the championship title.

In order to dispel the doubts of netizens, the association also specifically responded to this question: "There is no evidence to prove that there is cheating with anal beads."

Yan also responded to the matter in the media on the 26th, saying:"I had diarrhea after drinking on the 17th. I also felt uncomfortable in my stomach on the 18th. I had a bowel movement in the bathtub because I couldn't hold it in. I wanted to rinse the bathtub with water, but I couldn't!"

At the same time, he was also very angry and stated that he would never cheat.

What is anal bead cheating? How to do it?

Anal bead cheating is considered the latest cheating method in chess games. According to the speculation of netizens, this device is definitely a high-tech product.

Special anal beads are inserted into the body, and there is a team outside the player to help. Based on the existing chess games, the team uses computers to give the best chess plan.The vibration of the anal beads gives players hints and tells them how to do it.

There must be some kind of vibration code similar to "Morse code" between players and teams as a communication carrier.

Crazy netizens also believe that players can actively communicate with off-field teams through the contraction frequency of their sphincter muscles.

The suspicion of anal bead cheating was first reported in a top-level chess competition in September 2022.

Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen faced off against 19-year-old American rookie Hans Niemann. The prize money for this match was $500,000.

Before the fight, netizens had already predicted the outcome. Niemann was weak and inexperienced and would definitely lose.

However, the fact was that Carlson was upset, lost to the young player Niemann, and announced his withdrawal from the competition.

Afterwards, Carlson made some remarks in the media, intentionally or unintentionally suggesting that Niemann's victory might be due to cheating.

Soon after, the two met again in other games. This time, Carlson also retired from the game.

As a result, suspicions of cheating have spread on the Internet. Suspicions are suspicions, and no one can tell what the cheating is.

It wasn't until a user on Reddit, a foreign social news site, suggested that Niemann might use "anal beads" to vibrate to receive information, that people began to think of "anal bead cheating" in concrete terms.

The concept is very novel and has the support of Elon Musk, but in fact, the competition organization has not found any evidence of anal bead cheating.

Foreign netizens did not believe this statement at all, because Niemann had cheated in past online events, and they sent the evidence of cheating to the organization organizing the event.

Finally, Chess revoked his ranking and banned him from competing on the grounds that he had cheated many times online.

Because of this, Nieman also sued Carlson, demanding compensation of US$100 million from Carlson in the name of defamation. The case was concluded in June this year, and Nieman lost the lawsuit!

Is it possible to cheat with anal beads? The blogger bites the bullet and gives it a try

Based on the existing evidence, it is impossible for Niemann to cheat with anal beads.

Chess competitions are very strict. Before the competition, a full body scan is performed to check whether you are carrying any electronic items;

During the competition, if a player's chess-playing method is compared with that online and the repetition rate is high, he will also be sentenced to cheating;

During online matches, computers will also be monitored. In short, there are many anti-cheating methods.

When Niemann and Carlson played against each other for the second time, in order to avoid "anal cheating", the game also strengthened electronic radio frequency inspections and delayed the broadcast for 15 minutes.

Moreover, although Niemann won 2 out of 3 games at the beginning, in the next 6 games, he either lost or drew, so there was no possibility of cheating with anal beads.

In other words, there is no solid evidence that Niemann’s anal beads cheated.

However, this does not mean that cheating with anal beads is impossible. Some bloggers tried it hard.

A team abroad created a "fake" TV show that pitted unsuspecting British chess champion Daniel Fernandez against a novice with just three months' experience.

The newbie is called Archie, and his job is to be a magician.He is equipped with a device worth £95 inside his body, a vibrating instrument.

Archie's colleague Josh is in charge off the field, using an artificial intelligence system to calculate the best plan. Archie decides the next step based on the number of vibrations.

After more than 90 minutes of playing, Daniel, who has 21 years of chess experience, lost to Archie, a novice.

Archie won the competition, but was visibly fidgety throughout the process, describing what it was like to wear the "anal bead device":

"The whole process was very tense and uncomfortable. The vibrations were actually very uncomfortable. It was more like torture than enjoyment! When vibrating, you had to maintain a natural facial expression, otherwise it would be easy to be noticed."

The entire team is also complaining:The design of anal beads is very simple, but it takes a lot of time to practice, especially to think of a good password and a tacit understanding of cooperation!

at last

Overall, there is currently no substantial evidence for anal bead cheating, but it is possible.

Archie’s experiment proves that cheating with anal beads is both economically feasible (£95) and technically easy to break through.

And the biggest difficulty in this project is not communicating with the outside world (you can solve it with more practice), but how to hide the device without being discovered.

This also provides an additional anti-cheating idea for chess matches. Before the match, scan the whole body and pay attention to hidden parts!