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Drug Testing For Olympic Chess Players?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the letting-any-sport-it-in-now dept.

Lawrence Person writes: "According to this AP wire story, they're thinking of adding chess as an Olympic sport. The downside? Mandatory drug testing. 'He's using steroids to move that pawn!'"

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  1. This is getting ridiculous by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2, Troll

    Chess as an olympic sport? *sigh* That's almost as bad as when they brought in baseball.

  2. The answer to your question by AlgUSF · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah it is called cocaine. Cocaine is drug that has helped many medical students get through medical school. It has also help some people become president... :-)

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  3. Re:Can anyone thking of any drugs by TastyWheat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pot seems to help me hhaha sometimes hehe.

  4. Re:Can anyone thking of any drugs by tantrum · · Score: 0, Troll
    Imagine a chess match in which the players drop some LSD or eat some magic shrooms...
    hehe... shrooms does not exactly improve your chess skills.. tried that 4 days ago.. fun as hell, though.

    I don't think anybody would be able to play chess the day after they've eaten shrooms. BAD after effects, but a very very cool trip.
  5. new sports? by unformed · · Score: 0, Troll

    How 'bout addin masturbation?

    I can "release my load" in 15 seconds flat!

  6. Gee, a nice broken sport. by the_radix · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, it'd be nice to see an intellectual sport at the Olympics, were it not for the simple fact that chess is broken. We've got computers beating world champions because chess has a finite number of moves. It can only branch so many times before the game ends. What if we finally figured out exactly how to win a game of chess? Then the whole tournament would boil down to who went first.

    Maybe a real intellectual sport should be considered, instead of a brainteaser.

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