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The Great Chess Doping Scandal
[SIZE=-1]Spiegel Online, Germany[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Letters of protest were issued, and players are accusing bureaucrats in the world of championship chess of destroying the game, because, as they insist everyone should know, doping provides no benefits in chess.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That is not entirely correct. Combining chess and doping may be a highly unlikely combination, but it's not impossible.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Drug tests were introduced at international chess tournaments in 2001. The World Anti-Doping Agency classifies chess as a "low risk sport," and so far no one has been convicted of doping. But what exactly does that mean? [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The only reason there are doping tests in chess in the first place is that the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has been trying, since the late 1990s, to make chess an Olympic discipline. And anyone wishing to be part of the Olympics must submit to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Not all players agree. Cologne native Robert Hbner, for example, once ranked third in the world, stopped playing for the German national team in protest against doping tests. He refuses to accept the rules of modern sports, because he does not consider chess a sport. Instead, Hbner believes that it belongs in the "realm of cultural assets." He considers doping tests to be a bureaucratic show of power, and he believes that the tests are degrading and deprive the individual of rights and responsibilities. Drug tests will be introduced into Germany's federal chess league next year, and when that happens, says Hbner, he will give up his career immediately ...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Spiegel Online, Germany[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Letters of protest were issued, and players are accusing bureaucrats in the world of championship chess of destroying the game, because, as they insist everyone should know, doping provides no benefits in chess.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That is not entirely correct. Combining chess and doping may be a highly unlikely combination, but it's not impossible.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Drug tests were introduced at international chess tournaments in 2001. The World Anti-Doping Agency classifies chess as a "low risk sport," and so far no one has been convicted of doping. But what exactly does that mean? [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The only reason there are doping tests in chess in the first place is that the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has been trying, since the late 1990s, to make chess an Olympic discipline. And anyone wishing to be part of the Olympics must submit to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Not all players agree. Cologne native Robert Hbner, for example, once ranked third in the world, stopped playing for the German national team in protest against doping tests. He refuses to accept the rules of modern sports, because he does not consider chess a sport. Instead, Hbner believes that it belongs in the "realm of cultural assets." He considers doping tests to be a bureaucratic show of power, and he believes that the tests are degrading and deprive the individual of rights and responsibilities. Drug tests will be introduced into Germany's federal chess league next year, and when that happens, says Hbner, he will give up his career immediately ...[/SIZE]
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