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> "Harold Buck" <no_one_knows@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:no_one_knows-CB3208.16031218022006@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
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> Yeah, its arbitrary, but only if you think there is cheating, then you
> decide which kinds of cheating are detectable and can be exposed. But any
> connection between drugs and cheating is...
>
> ...again to paraphrase professional players ~ seems more like Rule Makers
> taking drugs and distorting their own perception, than anything real about
> drugs and performance
>
> the last person here to make a big defence of drug rules [John Fernandez]
> admitted he took drugs himself to calm his nerves - I did not think he had
> any sort of objective opinion and seemed to act from guilt
>
> he personally seemed to benefit from it to the extent that he couldn't play
> without his drug - either physiologically or psycholcogically
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> but that this was any sort of unfair advantage over another player was not
> established, and, frankly, an avoided subject ;(
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>
> If you don't like your government do you take other nationality? In this
> case the ruling for drugs in chess is pan-national. There is no course
> available except to fight the issue or drop out of chess.
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>
> Agree.