@[email protected] to World News • 1 month agoIn world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercuryarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1830arrow-down114cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@ohwhatfollyismanlinkEnglish13•1 month agoit was all a result of a misunderstanding. his coach told him to focus on the H, G files of the chessboard and he heard that as something else.
minus-square@ohwhatfollyismanlinkEnglish3•1 month agoah, so it was another misunderstanding, then. she was taught that the queen can do absolutely anything on the chess board and proceeded accordingly.
minus-square@IzzyScissorlinkEnglish2•1 month agoIt took me way too long to realize this was supposed to be a joke because Hg is the chemical symbol for Mercury. Such an easy thing to mishear.
it was all a result of a misunderstanding. his coach told him to focus on the H, G files of the chessboard and he heard that as something else.
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ah, so it was another misunderstanding, then. she was taught that the queen can do absolutely anything on the chess board and proceeded accordingly.
It took me way too long to realize this was supposed to be a joke because Hg is the chemical symbol for Mercury. Such an easy thing to mishear.