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Only FIDE, the game’s international governing body, requires that players have at least 40 classical games under their belts before the cycle is up.

As leader of track and field governing body World Athletics, he ushered in rules barring any athlete who had gone through male puberty from female competition categories.

He and Houlihan say they strictly followed guidance from the Athletics Integrity Unit, the independent group that manages antidoping issues for track and field’s world governing body.

A ruling in Chiles’s favor, some experts said, could upend existing law that governs doctor-patient relationships and other professional conduct.

It will certainly complicate the job of governing Japan.