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Subject: Controversy over FIDE doping check

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 20:36:36 10/27/02


Controversy over FIDE doping check
For the first time there will be rigorous doping controls at the Olympiad. This
is been done in a futile attempt to make chess an Olympic disciple. The result
is that a number of players have protested, vigorously. Some have even cancelled
their participation, like top German players Artur Jussupov and Robert Hübner.
They fear the $100,000 fines that may be suddenly imposed on first-time
"offenders". More

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=566




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