A pousada in Loures was partially destroyed last week when competitors in the national under-20 chess championships who were staying there went on the rampage.
Internationally renowned chess master Lums Santos called time at the championships to ask the competitors who had been responsible for the damage, much worse that police first suspected. No-one admitted responsibility. Twenty two of the thirty five competitors were suspended from the competition. With football hooliganism relegated to the seventies and eighties, in the main part, will this new trend catch on?
Source: The News, Portugal's National Newspaper in English
Edition 382, April 1996