TABOO TOPICS

Some USCF insiders even found this item hard to stomach
in the May 2006 Evans On Chess. They would far prefer
that such topics not be discussed in Chess Life.

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH: "At one time, FIDE's rules involved the
imposition of fines of up to a quarter of a million dollars for a
failed drug test and up to a million dollars for refusing to take a
test. That's FIDE's vision for chess: a quarter of a million
dollars for taking a cold remedy which can't possibly improve your
play. One would have thought that national federations would have had a
duty to protect their players from such blatantly unjust regulations,
but in fact most of the leading federations were amazingly quiet on the
subject." -- GM John Nunn

HAPPY TALK IS HERE AGAIN

By GM Larry Evans

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