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.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    googles “chess sex toy cheating”

    That episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia was based on a real event??

    • candyman337
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      41 month ago

      So there was a claim he was cheating but it’s really hard to smuggle any devices into the match so it was JOKED that he used a sex toy, but thats only one theory lol

    • @bulwark
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      31 month ago

      Lol, ya that’s how I first heard about it. I love it’s always sunny.