The world of chess has been rocked after a Russian chess champion attempted to poison her childhood rival by covering her pieces in deadly mercury.
Now facing a possible prison sentence, Amina Abakarova, 43, was caught on a security camera smearing her rival’s pieces with the substance ahead of a tournament in Makhachkala, southern Russia last week.
According to the World Health Organisation, even minor exposure to mercury can have serious health consequences.
She never heard of cameras?
“chess champion” makes it sound like she’s a GM or somrthing. She doesn’t have any FIDE titles.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is quite unpleasant behavior that shouldn’t necessarily be encouraged.
This is how pokemon would go in real life, you just straight up trying to murder that asshole rival
Man chess competitions are wild. First was the sex toy cheating scandal and now this.
googles “chess sex toy cheating”
That episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia was based on a real event??