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Mike Murray

2005-01-14, 9:45 am

The FIDE beaurocrats and USCF Olympic hopefuls now have something else
about which to worry:

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041...41025-9_pf.html

Cognitive enhancement via drugs? So 2004.



Mike Murray

2005-01-14, 5:46 pm

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:33:57 -0800, Mike Murray
<mikemurray@despammed.com> wrote:
quote:

>The FIDE beaurocrats and USCF Olympic hopefuls now have something else
>about which to worry:
>
>http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041...41025-9_pf.html
>
>Cognitive enhancement via drugs? So 2004.
>
>


Ooops. SB "bureaucrats". I was trying to save on power and didn't
have my brain stimulator plugged ijn.
David Richerby

2005-01-14, 5:46 pm

Mike Murray <mikemurray@despammed.com> wrote:
quote:

> The FIDE beaurocrats and USCF Olympic hopefuls now have something else
> about which to worry:
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041...41025-9_pf.html


No worries. The currents required are small enough that it wouldn't cost
very much at all for tournament organizers to supply sockets into which
anyone who wants to can plug their electrodes.


Dave.

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David Ames

2005-01-15, 6:47 am

So did Petrosian wear a stimulator or a hearing aid?

Mike Murray

2005-01-15, 6:47 am

On 13 Jan 2005 09:20:33 +0000 (GMT), David Richerby
<davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
quote:

>Mike Murray <mikemurray@despammed.com> wrote:
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>Well, they don't *mention* that as a side-effect...


If you misposition the brain stimulator, you get some *very*
embarrassing side effects, but you still don't lose concentration.
quote:

>
>Dave.


Martin Wilber

2005-01-15, 9:46 am

In article <q5kau0dck6ic1rjh5p9u0usa059t1bbj0b@4ax.com>,
mikemurray@despammed.com says...
quote:

> The FIDE beaurocrats and USCF Olympic hopefuls now have something else
> about which to worry:
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041...41025-9_pf.html
>
> Cognitive enhancement via drugs? So 2004.
>
>
>
>


I wonder if a cup of coffee would have the same or better result.

I saw a fellow wearing earplugs at a recent tournament. Maybe they were
actually brain enhancers disguised to look like earplugs.

Marty
David Ames

2005-01-19, 12:46 am

So did Petrosian wear a stimulator or a hearing aid?

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