Vaguely Pynchonesque

[Ya Sam]

situation with the bathroom scandal at the recently finished world 
championship in chess between Viktor Kramnik and Veselin Topalov, somehow 
made me think of the toiletship in GR.

"MOSCOW: Referees barred private toilets on Friday for the two grandmasters 
fighting for the world chess championship title in southern Russia after the 
contest was plunged into scandal over the frequency of one player's restroom 
breaks, ITAR-TASS news agency said.

Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, who has yet to win a match after four 
attempts against Viktor Kramnik of Russia, threatened to quit the tournament 
entirely if organisers did not enact better controls on toilet breaks.

Topalov's manager complained in a letter that Kramnik had used his private 
restroom far too frequently during the first four games of the tournament, 
insinuating that the Russian champion was cheating in the toilet, the only 
area not under video surveillance during play.

In response, chess officials ordered that the toilets in the private 
restrooms allocated separately to each player be locked and that they both 
use a single toilet in a different location, according to ITAR-TASS."

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1055789

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