Now that’s a headline

The ABC headline:

The anal beads cheating is interesting because that was the allegation against 19 years old Hans Neimann when he beat Magnus Carlsen. The theory there is that someone at home with a chess computer feeds in the moves and signals through remote controlled vibrations what piece should be moved.

But this story has an even more sophisticated allegation:

The association was also forced to address rumours circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals.

Yan allegedly clenched and unclenched rhythmically to communicate information about the chess board via code to a computer, which then sent back instructions on what moves to make in the form of vibrations, according to reports circulating on the Chinese social site Weibo.

It would be one thing to receive messages via anal beads, but truly impressive if one could actually send code via the anal beads through clenching and unclenching!