they say success is the best revenge:
just think how remorseful she's going to be when she finds out that you're well-adjusted enough to not only run the chess tournaments now, but even accomodate her dorky husband on his quest to get thrashed by your obscenely unfair pairings;
i'm sure they'll have a productive adult discussion about the viability of his hobby when he comes moping back home 12 hours later to all the undone house chores... humiliated, livid & $200 poorer.
In another thread, an acclaimed chess coach and author asserted:
i think we should abolish drug testing. i say let 'em dope all they want this ain't the tour de france we aint no pansies.
I also think that we should end drug testing in tournaments and other competitive chess events. What we do on our time is our own business. Drug testing is an invasion of privacy, pure and simple.
Who here can't relate to the hearbreak felt after having to give up your tournament trophy and cash prize just because your urine later tests positive for mushrooms, cocaine, or horse steroids?
Like the Checkmater said, this is Chess, not the Tour de France!
In this case, it is not about performance enhancement. It is not like steroids pumping up your biceps (see Barry Bonds as a pirate in 1991 vs Barry Bonds as a giant in 2007) will impact chess results. If anything did that, it would be caffine pills, coffee, and mountain dew.
The problem is that there are kids in these tournaments. Drugs are a bad example to kids. You should not allowed to be stoned in front of these grade schoolers. Has nothing to do with invasion of privacy. Think of it like going to work. When you are being hired for a job, a drug test is often given. You might still be able to concentrate yourself, but it is a bad reputation to the public. You get stoned, people can see it. It has negative impact on the general public.
Other things that some people may deem wrong that have no impact on the tournament are not policies. Testing for drugs is NOT invasion of privacy because it has direct impact not on your personal results, but on the general experience of the public that is there.
Invasion of privacy for a chess tournament would be:
1) Banning anyone that ate pizza in the last 24 hours. Provided no drugs were in the pizza, why is it your business what someone ate?
2) Banning anyone who "did it" with another of the same gender. Why is it anyone else's business which players are members of the LGBTQ+ community as long as they do not make moves on you during your game against them?
3) Banning a certain race or religion - Not only is that or number 2 an invasion of privacy - that would also be discrimination.
4) Banning someone because you do not like them. You got into a fight with someone in high school because he stole your girlfriend and is now married to her, and now 10 years later he enters your tournament.
Those are invasion of privacy. A drug test is not!
Drug testing is done to detect potentially performance enhancing substances ... and nothing else. In open tournaments with kids at the amateur level there usually are no such tests.
Also, an arbiter can take measures against players behaving inappropriately, e.g. being clearly drunk, without any test needed.
Well.... #4 just crossed the line. Went too far. Ban that mofo and his wife!