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 the best players in the world. You don't see the scanners

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 sweeping the room for cheating devices,

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 and you definitely don't see the $8.5 million spent just to

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 make the entire event cheat-proof.

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 At the absolute highest level, a world title isn't just one on

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 the board. It is one by weaponizing

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 supercomputers, operating in absolute secrecy and waiting for

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 the other player's nervous system

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 to crack under the massive pressure. When the 2024 World Chess

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 Championship took place in Singapore,

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 the organizers had 36 hours to build the playing hall, 36 hours.

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 And what they built was not just

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 a stage, it was an engineered pressure chamber. Hundreds of

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 fans could stand within arm's reach

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 of the board, watching every facial expression, every twitch,

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 every blink, while the world champion

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 and challengers sat inside.