Author: KarinsDad
Date: 15:07:19 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 16:47:42, Mark Ryan wrote: >In the post "How do you stop cheating at this level?" on January 25, KarinsDad >writes, "do not do this in a casino, guys, you WILL get caught". Perhaps this >is the solution - - ask the casinos how THEY stop this kind of cheating !!! > >Mark Actually, I was being somewhat facetious. Casinos have frequency scanners and other more sophisticated equipment to prevent cheats from using radios and computers when playing games such as blackjack (or at least the larger casinos do). However, in blackjack, you would need a camera as Robert indicated in another post since you could not transmit the data quickly enough otherwise. Yes, I've read about the guy who did it in his shoe, but again, he was transmitting every half second or so. In chess though, it is a very limited amount of data and you could burst transmit it (as per my other message). If I was trying to cheat at chess in a casino (such as some of the events in Las Vegas), I would use every technique that I could think of to prevent them from detecting me and I would probably be successful since they are not setup to detect such small amounts of data. In this scenario, the only way a casino would detect you is if they somehow detected that you had electronic equipment on your person and even if they had equipment of this level of sophistication, it would probably only be running within the casino itself and not within the conference rooms. But who can say? Those casino guys are pretty tricky. KarinsDad :)
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