Checked By Tech

Dave McKenna reports on the rise of electronic cheating in competitive chess:

"I grew up when nothing was computerized and you had to live in New York or San Francisco to get to play against great players," [U.S. Chess Federation president Ruth] Haring says. "You just played your neighbor. Now, you can train against a grandmaster-strength program, and all the openings of all the great players are available at your fingertips. There are all these tools that have really opened up the game."

The dark side, of course, is that technology-aided cheating episodes have popped up all over the place in recent years.