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"study" drugs

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 26 December 2010, at 6:45 p.m.

In Response To: "study" drugs (Bob Koca)

This issue has come up in chess. Paul Hoffman discusses it briefly in his book King's Gambit. For some people, apparently such drugs do help performance to some extent. As far as I know, though, the amount of assistance that such drugs provides to "normal" people doesn't seem to be that large (compared to, say, the amount of assistance that steroids provide to athletes), so it hasn't become a big issue in chess.

From a practical point of view I think the BG community doesn't need to worry about this, because if it's going to become an issue then I strongly suspect that it will become an issue in chess first, and the BG community can probably just follow the lead of whatever the chess community decides.

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  Bob Koca -- Sunday, 26 December 2010, at 5:36 p.m.
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    Casper van der Tak -- Sunday, 26 December 2010, at 5:46 p.m.
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      Frank Berger -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 2:21 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 26 December 2010, at 6:45 p.m.
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      misja -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 8:45 a.m.
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        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 9:14 a.m.
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        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 4:34 p.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:40 p.m.
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    garyo -- Sunday, 26 December 2010, at 7:12 p.m.
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      Gregg Cattanach -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 3:30 p.m.
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        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 3:57 p.m.
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        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 4:02 p.m.
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          Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:29 p.m.
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            Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:32 p.m.
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              Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:47 p.m.
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                Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:55 p.m.
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                  Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 7:19 p.m.
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                    Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 7:26 p.m.
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                      Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 8:37 p.m.
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                        Jason Lee -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 10:51 p.m.
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                    Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 7:50 p.m.
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                      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 8:24 p.m.
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                        Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 8:38 p.m.
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                        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 9:15 p.m.
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                        Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 9:31 p.m.
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                          Casper van der Tak -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 10:07 p.m.
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                            Leonardo Jerkovic -- Tuesday, 28 December 2010, at 7:50 a.m.
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                  garyo -- Wednesday, 29 December 2010, at 7:25 a.m.
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                garyo -- Wednesday, 29 December 2010, at 7:22 a.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:26 p.m.
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        garyo -- Wednesday, 29 December 2010, at 6:26 a.m.
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        DanielP -- Friday, 31 December 2010, at 12:03 p.m.
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    Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 8:48 a.m.
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      Sam Pottle -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 1:50 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:22 p.m.
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        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 5:39 p.m.
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      Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
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    Bill -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 2:44 p.m.
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      Keene -- Wednesday, 29 December 2010, at 8:07 p.m.
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    mamabear -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 4:31 p.m.
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      Casper van der Tak -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 4:42 p.m.
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    Seth -- Monday, 27 December 2010, at 4:43 p.m.
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    Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Wednesday, 29 December 2010, at 9:21 a.m.