Elaborate cheating scandal in the chess world.
Arcangelo Ricciardi was ranked 51,366 in the world when he entered this chess tournament in Italy. He creamed everyone he played, and rose dramatically through the standings. But he had some peculiar mannerisms. He never got up out of his chair, and he had his arms crossed all the time with his fist jammed into his armpit. He also kept blinking like crazy. Officials were convinced he was cheating, and asked him to empty his pockets. They found nothing. They asked him to open his shirt, and he refused. So then they put him through a metal detector and found a camera hanging around his neck and some sort of remote vibrating device in his armpit. They deduced the camera transmitted the game to an accomplice and the accomplice sent moved to him through some sort of code to his vibrating armpit. And he was blinking to decipher the instructions.
Sounds like a really elaborate cheating system, and I don't understand it.
According to the tournament's website.
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Top prizes in Group A are € 700 / € 500 / € 400 / € 300.
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