Chess is “Dope”
December 15, 2008 
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Apparently competition has gotten so aggressive that even chess players are taking drugs to gain an edge. I don’t know if its necessary for chess. Is chess even a sport? If i cant see the physical effects of the doping, i don’t want to see any doping. If i don’t see you jump 22 feet in the air or hit a home run 967 feet from the stadium, what’s the point?
Professional chess player Vassily Ivanchuk, born in Berezhany, Ukraine in 1969, has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The man with black hair and bedroom eyes is known as “Big Chucky” by his fellow chess players. Why? Because, after losing a game, he goes into the forest at night and howls at the moon to drive out the demons. Because he walks around in shorts in freezing temperatures. Because he likes to sit in dark rooms. Because he usually looks at the ceiling instead of the board during a chess match. Because he tries to fold the oversized winner’s check handed out after a tournament down to pocket size. And because he, as World Champion Visvanathan Anand says, lives on “Planet Ivanchuk.” Read more
This dude is fucking nuts.