Author: Paul Richards
Date: 20:53:39 01/26/99
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There is always another method to cheat. If man made it, man can defeat it, necessity is the mother of invention, etc. etc. You could use HF acoustic signals, or you can arrange a signaling system which need not be electronic or broadcast in nature. Take it from a magician, cheating can be taken to heights of creativity as great as any artform. :) For someone who is lame, the cheating will ultimately be pretty obvious. The most effective method would be to augment someone who is already very good. Unless the prize money for a tournament is astronomical, it's unlikely anyone would take the necessary security precautions, so someone like this could clean up fairly well if he didn't get too ambitious. Even if there were such a super prize tournament, it's unlikely anyone would want to implement the extreme measures necessary. For example you would need to say that looking away from the board at any time is a penalty, so that people can't signal you, etc. To make it really secure the venue would have to be like an interrogation room, which would be ridiculous. Picture a GM chained to a toilet in a barren, electromagnetically shielded room. Not going to happen.
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