Playing chess is more dangerous than we ever have thought   

I had regular visits with an orthopaedic surgeon for half a year after sustaining an injury playing chess.

met someone yesterday on this forum was challenged to a few games , a day latter there account looks like this.

MrsYukaDawson 

She challenged me also.  I looked at her profile.  Her account was 10 hours old and she had already won 12 games in a row with zero losses.  More strange was the fact that they were daily, or multiple day games all won on the same day?  When you see stuff like that, especially from brand new accounts, run, don't walk, away.

The attractive woman profile pic was another clue.  Troll droppings everywhere.  

That was YGNR. 

I was more suspicious on a russian flag with asia woman and writing stuff here like a man.....salad of nonsense

:-P 

Awesome.

YGNR is dumdum.

This 74 year old patzer won't even look at a game until he has had his morning java. It doesn't make me play any better, but it wakes me up enough to see the board and avoid dreadful blunders in some cases. And there are health benefits to drinking a couple of cups a coffee a day in most cases.

See health benefits of coffee on the web.

If it helps you avoid blunders, then it is making you play better.  

xD

I play chess daily and drink copious amounts of tea and coffee throughout the day. If chess.com knock on my door .I will invite them in and put the kettle on! lol. What they won't find at my address is a chess engine!

I think a lot of the players here are dopes.

Just to be clear, caffeine is not on the WADA list of prohibited substances.  

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actually, if I remember correctly, it is limited. It isn't prohibited but there is a limit to the caffeine levels

Different people metabolize caffeine differently. Fast metabolizers like me can drink a pot a day. Slow metabolizers need to limit their intake. Also, if you drink it regularly your body adjusts its utillization and detox enzymes to higher levels. And some get to a point where they need a lot of coffee to get any effect from it.

From the document linked in the OP:

Caffeine – Included in WADA Monitoring Program and relevant for incompetition testing only. Any urine test reading of less than 12 micrograms
per milliliter poses no problem.

An odd statement in that there is no explanation of what happens over 12 micrograms per ml.  

But, WADA says this about the monitoring program:

*The World Anti-Doping Code (Article 4.5) states: “WADA, in consultation with Signatories and governments, shall establish a monitoring program
regarding substances which are not on the Prohibited List, but which WADA wishes to monitor in order to detect patterns of misuse in sport.”

So it sounds to me that the monitoring program is just that, monitoring only, with no actions taken or prescribed.