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Morgan continued talking about claims that Niemann was getting signals from someone through the remote-controlled sex toy.

"To be clear, on the specific allegation - have you ever used anal beads while playing chess?" Morgan asked.

The 20-year-old replied: "Well, your curiosity is a bit concerning, you know - maybe you're personally interested, but I can tell you, no.

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok I don’t actually follow chess, but wasn’t this a thing that wrapped up a while ago as a “no proveable misconduct” and he was again allowed to compete..?

Or is this a different vibrating sex toy issue… (arguably worse..)?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it was big news a while back, this has bounced back into the headlines thanks to Piers Morgan's shit stirring and the killer comeback from Niemann.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, we’ve all done it, right?

[–] bl00dmeat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The beads speak for themselves

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How was it meant to work, in theory? Someone watching the match, then getting the moves off a computer and then morse-coding the coordinates through his bum vibrations?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, all this is hypothetical but yes - all the matches were live so someone could watch it, pull moves out of a computer and transmit the instructions via a remote controlled set of anal beads but it all seems like an awful lot of effort.