[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: GM Rivas disqualified from Spanish Championship: Do we need a doping test, or a test for dopes?

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
GM Rivas disqualified from Spanish Championship: Do we need a doping test, or a test for dopes?
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1222899918.shtml


   GM Manuel Rivas was disqualified from the ongoing [1]Spanish
   Championship when he refused to submit to a doping test. (As reported
   [2]here; translation [3]here.) Now, perhaps at some point there will
   be a substance that (a) substantially helps the performance of a chess
   player and (b) is dangerous and needs to be controlled, but in the
   meantime, what's the point? This stupid FIDE rule, which as far as I
   know had never previously been enforced, goes back to 1999 when FIDE
   had some hopes of becoming part of the Olympic movement. Since that
   didn't work out (chess was an exhibition sport in the Sydney Olympics
   in 2000, and that was the end of that), can we stop pretending chess
   is a real sport - or at least the sort of sport where these blood
   tests are relevant?
   HT: Chess Today

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