Chess in the Olympics

[Kevin Thurlow]

"The eight shortlisted federations are: baseball/softball, bowling, karate, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, surfing and wushu."

Karate and wushu are somewhat similar. Baseball is very big in Japan (home of the 2020 Olympics). Japan proposed a match between their champions and the US champions some years ago, for a "world championship", and got the entertaining response, "We already have our own world championship, why should we play anyone else?"

Ah, for the good old days of the Olympics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_compe ... mpic_Games

Maybe chess missed its chance.

[Neil Graham]

Whilst there's no chess at the 2020 Olympics here's another hopeful looking for a plaice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37638878

[Michael Farthing]

Lol!

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Whilst there's no chess at the 2020 Olympics here's another hopeful looking for a plaice"

Hope you didn't give yourself a haddock thinking of that one.

"But critics say fishing involves too much luck, is incomprehensible to outsiders and too boring to watch."

If they introduce those criteria, quite a lot of the Olympics would go...

The original Olympics featured athletics and military events, so discus, shot, javelin, shooting, archery, martial arts are all appropriate - why not fishing, as it could help survival in the wild?

There is a lot of luck in the sports relying on judges giving marks, e.g. boxing, judo, gymnastics etc., where there is frequently controversy over the results.

[Neil Graham]

After chess boxing possibly we could make a good case for chess fishing?

After all the former World Champion was Bobby Fisher - who always opened prawn to e4.

HOLLY: Prawn takes Horsie.
QUEEG: Bishop-Pawn takes Pawn.
HOLLY: Bish takes Prawn.
QUEEG: Bishop to Knight Five. Double Check and Mate, sucker!
HOLLY: Oh yeah, I didn't see that.

[Brian Towers]

Whilst there's no chess at the 2020 Olympics here's another hopeful looking for a plaice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37638878

But does angling have a proper anti-doping policy?
What substances are banned? Are you allowed beer during competitions?
How good an angler do you have to be to fall under the full rigmarole of notifying the testing authorities of your exact location for an hour a day so that you can be randomly tested? I believe for FIDE it is 2700.
Does angling have a rating system?

Actually now that I think about it, do any 2700+ players actually go through the location reporting rigmarole? Who do they tell? How soon after your live rating goes over 2700 do you have to report? Do you fall out of the system when it drops below again?

[NickFaulks]

I believe for FIDE it is 2700.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's news to be. Where can I find it?

[Brian Towers]

I believe for FIDE it is 2700.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's news to be. Where can I find it?

https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/FIDE ... gRules.pdf

Several pages in it says this -

Within the overall pool of Players set out above who are bound by and required to comply with these Anti-Doping Rules, the following Players shall be considered to be International-Level Players for purposes of these Anti-Doping Rules, and therefore the specific provisions in these Anti-Doping Rules applicable to International-Level Players (as regards Testing but also as regards TUEs, whereabouts information, results management, and appeals) shall apply to such
Players:
a. Players who are part of the FIDE Registered Testing Pool;
b. Players who participate in selected FIDE International Events published by FIDE in its website at following link (http://www.fide.com); or
c. Men Players who have a FIDE Elo rating above 2700 as published on the website http://www.fide.com whether active or inactive, and women Players who have a as published on http://www.fide.com Elo-rating above 2500, whether active or inactive.

OK, so I missed out that for women it is over 2500.

[NickFaulks]

I believe for FIDE it is 2700.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's news to be. Where can I find it?

https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/FIDE ... gRules.pdf

Thanks, I had never looked at this document. I think the International-Level part refers only to things that FIDE Anti-Doping can do if they want to and in practice don't, but still worth knowing.