 | Chess Champion Paul Weinz |
Even though Paul Weinz just captured his first WCA World Chess Championship, his celebration may be cut short in the wake of allegations of anabolic steroid use. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, suspicions arose after Weinz opened with a C51 Evans Gambit and, following an Nf3 maneuver, grasped his right hip flexor in agony.
After a mere fifteen minute delay, Weinz went right back to the board, completed the Bc4 phase of his opening, and crushed his opponent in a stunning 15 move melee.
I think its pretty obvious whats going on here, said UCLA Head of Chess Medicine Efrain Tiller. Give me a break. No one has ever recovered from that kind of chess injury in fifteen days let alone fifteen minutes.
After witnessing one of the worst drubbings in chess history, one question buzzed throughout the crowd...
"Did steroids play a hand in that 15 move assault?"
Weinz told reporters after the match that he had received and used clear and cream substances from his personal chess coach, Mills Frank, during the Minnesota Chess-A-Thon, but denied ever having used steroids or human growth hormones.
Several of Weinzs competitors disagree. Ukrainian Nils Bjor ate his rook in protest following a 16 move shellacking at the hand of Weinz.
Aldus Jackson, Paul's quarterfinal round victim said in a post-match tirade This is not real chess. I mean look at that motherfucker. Do you see anyone else behind one of these boards who can do 575 pound inclines? No you do not.
This is, perhaps, the biggest scandel to rock the chess world since U.S. Grandmaster Rick Street was photographed jacking off a horse in May of 1998. WCA officals are bracing for a media maelstrom between now and the March 3rd McFeely Cup.
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