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Originally Posted by PyramidScheme
lol @ the idea of trying to avoid raising suspicion. I don't think people would ever suspect you had the solution to chess no matter how well you played. But yeah intentionally losing sometimes to try and get action does make sense.
If a previous unknown went 11.5/12 in a tourney with an average rating of 2700, while playing half a dozen moves per game that make absolutely no sense according to any known principles of the game, people may not jump to the conclusion that he must have solved chess, but the structure of the highest levels of chess competition will probably change pretty damn fast, and chess will quickly get a lot less profitable for said player.