Chinese Chess Champion Stripped of Title After Defecating In Hotel Bathtub (theguardian.com) 57
Agence France-Press reports: The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumors of cheating and a bad behavior scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title on Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub. Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has been hugely popular for hundreds of years across Asia -- and 48-year-old Yan Chenglong beat dozens of contenders last week to win the title of "Xiangqi King" at a national tournament hosted by the Chinese Xiangqi Association. But his joy was short-lived, with the CXA on Monday announcing that Yan would have his title revoked and prize money confiscated after had been caught "disrupting public order" and displaying "extremely bad character."
The association was also forced to address rumors 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. "Based on our understanding of the situation, it is currently impossible to prove that Yan engaged in cheating via 'anal beads' as speculated on social media," the CXA said. But he was still stripped of his title and banned from playing for a year after his celebrations went wayward.
"Yan consumed alcohol with others in his room on the night of the 17th, and then he defecated in the bathtub of the room he was staying in on the 18th, in an act that damaged hotel property, violated public order and good morals, had a negative impact on the competition and the event of Xiangqi, and was of extremely bad character," the association said. The association did not disclose the amount of prize money Yan was forfeiting, but Xiangqi tournaments often promise winners tens of thousands of yuan (thousands of dollars).
The association was also forced to address rumors 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. "Based on our understanding of the situation, it is currently impossible to prove that Yan engaged in cheating via 'anal beads' as speculated on social media," the CXA said. But he was still stripped of his title and banned from playing for a year after his celebrations went wayward.
"Yan consumed alcohol with others in his room on the night of the 17th, and then he defecated in the bathtub of the room he was staying in on the 18th, in an act that damaged hotel property, violated public order and good morals, had a negative impact on the competition and the event of Xiangqi, and was of extremely bad character," the association said. The association did not disclose the amount of prize money Yan was forfeiting, but Xiangqi tournaments often promise winners tens of thousands of yuan (thousands of dollars).
WHat did I just read? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:shame great firewall of China not go both ways (Score:1)
The filter is simple: they get our money, and we get their crap.
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It's a shame the great firewall of China doesn't go both ways.
I mean, it sounded like it took a ton of preparation and dedication. If only he had been just a bit more anal retentive he might not have gotten caught.
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... it sounded like it took a ton of preparation and dedication ...
and a shit-ton of preparation H and defecation.
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It's a shame the great firewall of China doesn't go both ways.
The crapping in the bathtub wasn't even the best part:
The association was also forced to address rumors circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals.
In Scorsese's Casino, when the cheaters are caught tapping signals with a transmitter strapped to their thighs, one gets his hand broken with a hammer?
So... what are the Chinese going to hammer here?
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I don't see why it's such a big deal. Apparently people doing #2 in the bathtub is extremely common in every hotel in the world. It happens far more often than you might think and is one of the dirty little secrets of the industry.
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I don't see why it's such a big deal. Apparently people doing #2 in the bathtub is extremely common in every hotel in the world. It happens far more often than you might think and is one of the dirty little secrets of the industry.
Mr. Yan, I knew Andre the Giant, and you sir are no Andre the Giant.
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You shit in one bathtub, and everyone loses their mind.
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The shocking part (to me) is not what he did, it's that the organization was able to remove a title he earned, for something unrelated to playing and that happened apparently after he was declared winner.
But details are missing: Whether he was already formally declared winner, or they still needed someone to sign some paperwork; how they were able to "seize" money -- just refrain from paying or reverting a payment already made; whether the competition was hosted at this hotel or his hotel stay was far away;
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remove a title he earned, for something unrelated to playing
It wasn't unrelated.
He pooped in the tub to recover the cheat-beads and RX/TX that he had shoved up his butt.
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Yeah but how'd he get caught? He could easily have done that and then cleaned up the mess afterwards. Unless they had someone spying on him at his room party.
Gives new meaning to (Score:4, Funny)
"My opponent played the crap out of me."
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Can we call it a "chess opening" :-)
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he he, eeew. Some schmuck will post goatse in 3..2..1..
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I don't know about the opening, but his final movement was "King takes Dook".
"News for nerds, and (Score:1)
...stuff that matters.
And matter that stuffs bathtubs.
Anal Bead Transmitter (Score:3)
Now we're talkin'.
There is a very important tidbit missing (Score:1)
The explanation why the hell I should give a fuck.
Re: There is a very important tidbit missing (Score:3)
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it involves a novel use of wireless technology
But but but... If someone can now pipe their shit from wherever they passed out into the bathtub by wi-fi, why can't it routed by the AI into the crapper???
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Getting drunk and shitting in the bathtub isn't shocking to anyone who's been to a college party.
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it's about chess
Chinese chess, which is to chess what American football is to Football.
but it's ok for an NHL player to do it into the cu (Score:2)
but it's ok for an NHL player to do it into the cup!
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You want the NHL player shot and cut up into organs for sale? Aren't you a bit too cruel?
ROFL (Score:1)
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Differing Standards (Score:2)
They're clearly using a different standard of behaviour than North American Pro Sports.
If they did I suspect most championships would end up unclaimed.
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In the USA you can punch the shit out of your wife on camera or run a dog fighting ring and still get multi million dollar contracts. Now sitting down for the national anthem, that draws the line.
Probably ... (Score:2, Interesting)
an act that damaged hotel property
I don't see how. Haven't the Chinese heard of waffle-stomping?
Cheating: Bad. But unproven. The rest of the accusations just seem to be subjective judgements made to add additional charges.
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The hotel probably wants to rip the bath out, or maybe the whole bathroom. Now the story is out, they will want to reassure guests that it's clean. It's been befouled on a molecular level.
Netflix can turn this into a show (Score:2)
Queen's GamShit
the next frontier (Score:2)
This wireless anal beads thing, it has promise! Let's get a team on it right away!
-- CEOs of Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Atari
Bad career move (Score:4, Insightful)
Should have gone for the shower and the good ol' waffle stomp. No-one would have been any the wiser.
Like Andre the Giant? (Score:3)
Andre the Giant used to crap in bathtubs because the toilets were too small and puny.
So just how big is Yan Chenglong before we judge? Also, how drunk was he, because if he was too drunk to crap in the small pot . . . ok, too, I guess.
Now who has a related joke about elephants and rivers or maybe drunken cannons? Any good nerdy xiangqi jokes translated into English?
Mathy! (Score:2)
Information theory tells us there is a lower limit to how much you can communicate with a given quantity of characters and time. Rectal flexing would probably max out using Morse code, and be far, far slower than a skilled key operator. Now imagine you're trying to describe a chess board - perhaps you only send deltas, but at some point you're going to need to be able to make corrections.
I just can't imagine this being an effective method of clandestine communication for cheating at chess. If you want to
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Trust nothing. This is basically a ripoff of the western chess scandal accusations because nothing from china is ever original, or likely ever true.
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You just need source and destination coordinates for start and end. The state of the board is built up by the computer based on the rules of chess.
A total of 4-6 characters per move depending on whether it's a single digit or double-digit column and using alpha rows. If you use alpha notation for both rows and columns you could get it set at 4. Can't do all numeric as easily because the alpha characters would act as the terminator for the source coordinate's number.
Re: Chess and fetishes (Score:2)
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For non-Chinese chess maybe. Have you looked at the shape of the pawns?
Probably a transliteration mistake. (Score:2)
Somebody tried to tell him that the tub was a disability tub, so he could sit in it if he wanted to. But they somehow transliterated it into Chinese characters, then back to an "X", and the pronunciation then became ambiguous. :-D
Similar to chess (Score:2)
It's similar to chess but it has extra pieces such as the elephant and the pile of poo.
Asian toilet? (Score:3)
Have you ever seen an Asian toilet? It looks like a tiny bathtub that you squat over. If this kid had never seen a full size tub before, who knows what he thought? He might have thought that it's the place to do it!
New euphemism (Score:2)
Next Time You Doo This (Score:2)
They're the reason... (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe he had a colonoscopy scheduled (Score:2)
i remember this (Score:2)
wasnt shitting in a bathtub one of the four pests?
Trustworthy news? (Score:2)
Usually people complain about BM in video games. (Score:2)
How else would you prove a negative? (Score:2)