Practically speaking, if there's an audience that the players can see, it would be easy to signal a move. All an audience member would need would be access to communication with a computer or via a cell phone with someone on the outside with a computer. As no one will be monitoring the audience,they could do anything they want--go to the bathroom, step outside, or get info from an earphone. The remaining problem would be to get the move to the player. That's easy. All you need is a set of signals to indicate the to and from square, very simple. Magicians and mentalists (the fake ones) have been doing it for years and years. You can find it in any amateur magic book. More and more they are catching people getting moves over the board illegally. It's getting just as easy as it would be on rhp for someone to use a computer. I'm not saying that Kramnik or anyone else is doing it, i'm just saying tournament and match organizers are pretty naive about the possibilities and better wise up.
Originally posted by deeploserIf I had a computer in my head, chess is the last thing I would try to make money with.
With all the advances in technology where they are putting things into peoples heads to control artificial limbs, what are they going to do about the person who gets a computer jacked into his head?
