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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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Cheating in Online Chess

Cheating chess players can cheat by using surreptitiously using their phone or another computer. One grandmaster suggested that instead of banning them, they should just put them in a special walled off part of chess.com. They'd basically be people fighting each other with their computers and having no idea that they're playing other people who are cheaters.

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