Bulgaria - Summer of Chess

[WBuchanan]

Thanks. I think Ivanov got that one right – had he passed the ‘objective scientific test’ I doubt his titled accusers would have accepted it. I think he would have been better to turn up and explain though. It's disappointing that the chess authorities should resort to such dubious measures. I vaguely recall black and white B movies in which dramatic court room finales with sweating psychopaths and spikey graphs sold the idea of lie detection on to a naive public. Now we know about things like White Coat Syndrome that lead to false positives (and false negatives), and how the test might be 'cheated', the idea is best left to the world of drama. Cheers