Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 21:17:08 12/12/99
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I can understanf how Allwerman recieved moves, but how did he send moves? >The last I heard Allwermann was under investigation by the DA. Hartmut Metz of >the Stuttgarter Zeitung actually found the store in which Allwermann had the >electronic equipment he used in the games. Apparently he bought two hand-held >radio transmitters model P93 from a shop called Albert Klein Funktechnik in Bad >Grönenbach. He had them upgraded to a four-digit call (I don’t know exactly what >that means) and was satisfied with a radius of 500 metres. This, concludes Metz, >indicates that the accomplice was in the nearby Novotel in Böblingen. Albert >Klein told Metz that Allwermann had also bought special hearing-aid style >earphones which were invisible under his longish hair. The total cost of the >equipment was DM 4,600 (he won DM 1,660 as first prize at the tournament). > >Metz believes Allwermann and his accomplice used the correspondence chess code >to transmit move, but I tend to disagree. In game two, after completely >outplaying Giacopelli suddenly Allwermann played the inconsistent 34...Be4xg2. >Fritz was screaming for 34...Bc7-h2 (after Bxg2 its score drops from 4.06 to >0.8). I think they were using a piece to square system, maybe with Morse clicks >for the pieces and squares, e.g. dit dit dit dit for “bishop”, dit dit dit for >“c”, dit dit dit dit for “4”. Then it would be easy to miscount bishop to g2/h2. >In German “gay-tswai” is phonetically quite distinct from “hah-tswai”, so an >error in voice transmission would be more unlikely. There may also have been a >general communications breakdown at this point, since Allwermann agreed to a >draw just one move later. > >Wish he would come out and confess. He could declare the whole thing an >experiment to draw attention to a great danger in tournament chess.
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