CHESS#1238

In pre-doping days, a certain world champion was rumoured to use stimulants to give him a zing

For years, chess doping was considered a joke. Smoking (tobacco) at the board was legal until the mid-1980s and using stimulants wasn’t illegal until 1999, when chess aligned with the International Olympic Committee. In pre-doping days, a certain world champion was rumoured to use stimulants to give him a chemical zing in long games.  The drug tests cut and pasted the banned list from world anti-doping agency. This caused much amusement since steroids, for example, are utterly useless. But a new study indicates some of those banned drugs could be ...

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CHESS#1238