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Drugs in sport / Drugs in chess.

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Drugs in sport / Drugs in chess.

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Steroids 😠 & Speed 😲

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Caffeine.
Seriously, if chess becomes an olympic sport caffeine will be banned in chess.

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Beer is about the only one i've tried whilst playing chess and i can say in all honesty that there wasn't too much performance enchancement!🙂

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I think it is fairly obvious from my games I at least am not on performance enhancing drugs.

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Drugs you in chess would make you do more stupid moves.

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Originally posted by CFC
Drugs you in chess would make you do more stupid moves.
not so! alcohol would probubly be banned (helps you relax), and other's'd make you concentrate (caffine?). dunno if steriods would be though?...

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I am reading "Searching for boby fisher" and I guess the russians used to pump up their players back in the late sixties and the seventies. But, you cant believe everything you read.

Mike

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Originally posted by rapalla7
I am reading "Searching for boby fisher" and I guess the russians used to pump up their players back in the late sixties and the seventies. But, you cant believe everything you read.

Mike
FWIW, the second OTB tourney I played in I lost my first game miserably, nearly lost my second but barely managed a draw, then drank about a liter of black coffee and won my last two easily 😲.

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I've found this interesting for the topic:

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch05.txt

Michael