What!?!?! You're trying to summarise with that claim?DoPo said:. Mr Kurtenkov also says that a lot of them could be jammed using a simple device...however, there are two problems, with that - one, it can be bypassed by different types of tech which are not affected by it, two, it cannot actually be deployed in the tournament to begin with (it could interfere with pacemakers, for example).
What about a Faraday cage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Blocks all EM waves used in wireless transmitters, doesn't affect pacemakers nor any medical devices and is not restricted by any communications authority as it doesn't block signals within a radius like an active jammer, it simply stops any radio or microwave radiation entering the cage.
These can be made very discrete, the principal is simple, it's like being surrounded by the antenna that absorbs the WAVES before the receiver can. And the receiver would most likely be extremely weak if it has to be so concealable. This stops mobile phones and everything similar.
Any system would utterly depend on an outside confederate to record each piece move and enter it into a machine to determine what the next move should be. With mobile phone tucked between his nuts or a fanciful device somehow inserted under the skin, can't have any data entered into it to tell him what the next move should be.
I thought Chess players were supposed to be smart.
Well, maybe smart with chess moves but not the common sense to do the bare minimum of research before declaring something non-viable.
And this is all so convenient, to say the cheating is undetectable then equally anyone can be accused, this fantasy is an inquisitor's wet dream, so to speak.