If we ban coffee, how about food? Oxygen?
The ONLY reason this stupid rule came into chess is because FIDE has been trying for years to get chess into the Olympics as a recognized sport, and drug testing is an IOC rule.
How is chess going to be an Olympic sport? Full amount of time or blitz tournament?
There is an nzt like drug that I know is used by the military. I know it is used to treat a few different conditions like narcolepsy. It hightens awareness and increases the attention span, allowing its user to be able concentrate and stay awake for longer periods of time.
There is an nzt like drug that I know is used by the military. I know it is used to treat a few different conditions like narcolepsy. It hightens awareness and increases the attention span, allowing its user to be able concentrate and stay awake for longer periods of time.
Won't it have a major crash afterwards though? Sounds like a good idea, except if it has a crash
There is an nzt like drug that I know is used by the military. I know it is used to treat a few different conditions like narcolepsy. It hightens awareness and increases the attention span, allowing its user to be able concentrate and stay awake for longer periods of time.
Won't it have a major crash afterwards though? Sounds like a good idea, except if it has a crash
Not only a potential crash, but for patients who take it regulary, they develop a tolerance causing its effects to never be as good as it was the first time, with the same dosage. I read an article online about a guy in the Air Force who was prescribed it.
Take vitamins and minerals. Eat right. Get plenty of sleep. Try brain foods like fish or anything with omega 3 fatty acids. A small amount of caffiene can certainly help also. All of these things can give you about as good of an advantage as you can get without a prescription.
Caffiene is a drug.
A small amount of caffiene is irrelevant to a drug test.
Retroactively editing your post (replacing "without drugs" with "without a prescription") and then responding as though I was referring to something else when you know full well I was making a direct reference to your post is kind of shifty.
If anything the use of drugs to heighten ones awareness (a personal bodily function, which no entity should have the power to dictate) should be commended as resourcefulness. Maybe for once we can have a tournament where everyone isn't completely exhausted. On second thought, that wouldn't be fair, so logically it makes sense to start sleep-testing people and make sure they got a full eight hours beforehand. Like the notion of sleep-testing, drug testing is an equally retarded notion, as what I do with the 8 hours before my tournament is of no concern to tournament directors whom I do not know... People are always power tripping. But then, what would people be doing with themselves if not complaining about one thing or another?
Alternatively, they could host a seperate tournaments- one for users, and one for non-users. We could even go as far as classifying the brackets according to the player's drug of choice- A sort of Drug Olympics if you will.
So if I drink a redbull before a test, am I a cheater?
Retroactively editing your post (replacing "without drugs" with "without a prescription") and then responding as though I was referring to something else when you know full well I was making a direct reference to your post is kind of shifty.
You once again pointed out how I chose words that could be misconstrued into something I didn't mean. So after "your kind and gracious help", I chose some better verbage, so you'd no longer need to be concerned.
Three cheers everyone for my personal free lance editor....he is great to have around isn't he...?
Retroactively editing your post (replacing "without drugs" with "without a prescription") and then responding as though I was referring to something else when you know full well I was making a direct reference to your post is kind of shifty.
If you were a woman, I'd tell you to go have a chocolate bar and a coke...
maybe then you wouldn't feel the need to try to get your dopamine flowing at my expense...
So if I drink a redbull before a test, am I a cheater?
If you take Adderrall illegally then yes you are, it is different with beverages and food.
From what I hear, the tournament chess scene in Miami was quite cocaine-fueled in the 1970's and 80's. Apparently at Miami's biggest chess club, there were mirrored chess tables on which a player could snort cocaine off any surface (including the board itself), players openly using cocaine during games (a particular Miami favorite is a "back ranker," which involves snorting a line of cocaine that stretches from your first rank all the way to the eighth rank), and local chess tournaments that offered, yes, up to a half-kilo of cocaine as the first place prize.
I remember our scholastic chess coach in high school bragging about how he just won a regional tournament after just having polished off an "eight ball" of coke . . . . Although the purity of such was obviously unknown to me -- back in Miami in the 80's I'm sure it was pretty good stuff!
From what I hear, the tournament chess scene in Miami was quite cocaine-fueled in the 1970's and 80's. Apparently at Miami's biggest chess club, there were mirrored chess tables on which a player could snort cocaine off any surface (including the board itself), players openly using cocaine during games (a particular Miami favorite is a "back ranker," which involves snorting a line of cocaine that stretches from your first rank all the way to the eighth rank), and local chess tournaments that offered, yes, up to a half-kilo of cocaine as the first place prize.
I remember our scholastic chess coach in high school bragging about how he just won a regional tournament after just having polished off an "eight ball" of coke . . . . Although the purity of such was obviously unknown to me -- back in Miami in the 80's I'm sure it was pretty good stuff!
Lol you are an idiot, obviously a non-amusing fake story.
Theres a guy in my chess club who does marijuana outside the building.. but I am almost certain it's for medical reasons because he has soo much.
Lol you are an idiot, obviously a non-amusing fake story.
Theres a guy in my chess club who does marijuana outside the building.. but I am almost certain it's for medical reasons because he has soo much.
I almost made a comment about you being a Justin Bieber wanna be from a third world hellhole like Albania but stopped myself, having rememberd this site's admonition to be helpful, friendly, and all that stuff...
Lol you are an idiot, obviously a non-amusing fake story.
Theres a guy in my chess club who does marijuana outside the building.. but I am almost certain it's for medical reasons because he has soo much.
I almost made a comment about you being a Justin Bieber wanna be from a third world hellhole like Albania but stopped myself, having rememberd this site's admonition to be helpful, friendly, and all that stuff...
This site is supposed to be family friendly, and all you are talking about is cocaine in miami and prizes being cocaine, as well as highschool teachers winning cocaine. Not very "helpful, friendly, and all that stuff."
.Too bad chess.com does not do a drug test on us.
Medications that are used for those that have ADHD or some other disorder have been shown to significantly improve concentration for chess players. I think this constitutes an unfair advantage, and i think drug testing should go on personally. Now in lower level tournaments its obviously ridiculous
The drug testing should go on because of that. No one's going to care that much in amateur tournaments