Drugs in Chess

nobody needs any drugs to play chess or any other game. just hard work and honesty.

When it comes down to it, those who study the hardest for the longest tend to be the better players, no matter what drugs anyone is or isnt using. So just chill out, do what your most comfortable doing ( drugwise) and leave drugtesting to the physical sports, where drugs have actually been proven to make a difference.

I have found that I play best stone cold sober, so if I play that way in a tournament, does that give me an unfair advantage? of course not. So if my opponent plays best on a combination of idebenone and oxiracetam, he is just playing in his comfort zone, where he has found, or thinks he has found, he plays best. not an unfair advantage over me. Just learn about yourself and do what fits.

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original post.  hahaha.  what is all that stuff??!

In my opinion (someone who has been there and done that), I do not think that any drugs that you use will do much to make anybody more keen than when they started to begin with.  It may seem that way, but I'm afraid that that is part of the euphoria/illusion (or terror in some instances) of using whatever drugs.  I would ask that we define what things would enhance the performance of chess players in the first place and then work from there.  Bottom line is (and this is purely my speculation) that if they made a drug to enhance your intuition and judgement skills, then it would behoove (sp.) the entire population to administer and take said supplements.  I do like to play chess under the influence.  Then again, I do like to do several other things in the same states.  Happy experimenting all, but I'm going to be a hater on this one.  I don't think that any substances will have effects that will be proven to improve a players game.  (Just a hypothesis, and in this case one that would support non-banning of substances in the chess world [for all of you that hated my post]).  I suppose practice always helps.

My two cents,

M

I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac

Try Hydrogen Peroxide..

  magic mushrooms stewed in datura and mesculin.brain food no 1

Beast the only drug in your case would be cyanide! lol It helps me sleep...

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No drugs can really improve (at least proven) chess performance, they either will make you too calm/relaxed not useful for time trouble right; or they will make you too excited, thinking faster, playing less carefouly and too fast for your own good. No one can really point to a drug and say this will boost your playing skill in x% it always depends on the in game situation

I am willing to bet Tianeptine will have a decent positive impact on games/study periods.

i would advize takin xanax and lortabs. The xanax may cause u to make some odd moves but i can almost gurantee that it will confuse ur opponent.

I think you want to play for drugs if you want to improve your game not play on drugs!!!

speed and caffeine will make you a ruthless chess monster with no regard for anything but your miniscule touch pad and or mouse; resulting in the entanglement of the metaphorical "vital" strands of logic required to read and or decieve your opponent in ways unpresumably known to any master or aforesaid player. nicotine helps as well

i read an article the other day about drugs used to enhance study by college students. they didn't find any that helped the studying part but they did find some that helped in taking tests since they improved concentration and clarity of mind.
The drugs  adderral and ritilin were shown to have beneficial effects in test taking. these are normally used for hyper activity or attention defecit disorder. Having tried both in a past time I think they could help in tournament chess play. One tends to lose concentration after a point.

Try this. The point of the sicillian is to trade the c pawn for the d pawn. Stop this, develop quickly and watch out for your queen's side.