Olympic Chess

Great Debates
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Adding chess to the Olympics will doubtlessly reduce TV-viewers’ interest in the Games.

Therefore, to make up for it, I propose they add:

OLYMPIC GROUP SEX

This will ensure the highest TV ratings in Olympic history.

22

Let’s not forget Risk, Candyland, and Monopoly.

23

Hey, let’s get the SDMB Diplomacy team into the Olympics! And how come the SDMB Diplomacy games are still on hiatus? I see Maeglin posting here all the time now!

Bring back Dip!
Bring back Dip!
Bring back Dip!

24

Personally, I’d like to see chess kept out of the Olympic games, but then again, I’d like to see a lot of things taken out of the Olympics.
Chess already has a national and international framework for tournaments. Its masters and grandmasters are determined by this. Chess doesn’t really need the Olympics.
The Olympics should just be kept to a few core/internationally played sports. For simplicity more than anything else.
But again, if synchronized swimming can make the cut, fuck it. Let chess in, too.

25

The thing that struck me was that none of the pro-Olympic chess people even saw the irony of lobbying to be included but then complaining about drug-testing. As one of them said, “What are we going to do, bang the clock harder?”

Well, exactly. They test for performance-enhancing drugs for physical things like, y’know, sports. Which chess ain’t. If you want to be in, follow the rules. If you think the rules are ridiculous as applied to your case, take a moment to consider that they were never meant to be applied to games such as yours.

Next up: Olympic gin rummy.

26

Mostly because I was gone so long that no one really gives a shit anymore. :smiley: Oh, and I lost all of my web space.

Dunno if I can get behind that…but speaking of gin, how about Olympic Drinking? It’s definitely physical. It requires a considerable amount of skill, and a significant amount of training. Not to mention TV viewers would snarf it right down…and maybe puke it back up again.

I say replace Olympic fencing, a craptacular athletic and spectator disaster, with Olympic Drinking Games.

It would make drug testing kinda difficult, though…

MR

27

Well, MAEGLIN, I think I could kick your butt at either gin-based Olympic game. :wink:

28

I smell a challenge. Or maybe it’s just the Hooch.

You lie, Madam.

The age-old invitation to ritual combat. Well, it’s usually “you lie, sir,” but you get the idea. You had better pick your seconds, as only one of us is going to emerge with any brain cells left.

29

:: Jodi slaps Maeglin with her glove ::

No, wait. Do I have to do that if you’ve already done the “you lie” thing? Well, in any case . . .

:: Jodi slaps Maeglin with her glove again ::

Uh, one sec. Was this a challenge to drink gin or play gin? Oh, either way . . .

:: Jodi slaps Maeglin with her glove again ::

Um, hang on. Are the seconds playing/drinking? Is it two-hand gin, or four? :: Shrug ::

:: Jodi slaps Maeglin with her glove again ::

I accept! At a mutually convenient time and place, a gin-athon. Of course, with you being on one coast and me on the other . . . .

:: Jodi slaps Maeglin with her glove again, on general principles, and 'cause it’s fun ::

Back to the OP: What does one have to do, exactly, to have one’s game included in the Olympics? Does the OEC vote on it, or what? Anybody know?

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Damn, Jodi, when you cut loose, you cut loose. I’m starting to think that I should bring weapons to our gin bout…

Yes. It’s all in the IOC charter.

There is plenty more, if you wish to wade through the charter.

MR