Russian chess champion caught poisoning childhood rival with mercury
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.
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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??
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
Lol, ya that's how I first heard about it. I love it's always sunny.
If it's just regular mercury, she's an idiot. You have to ingest it.
Whatever it was, it wasn't pure mercury. The victim suffered a severe reaction. Some organic mercury compounds are incredibly dangerous and can soak in easily through the skin. I'm surprised she's only facing three years, this sounds like attempted murder.
There was that chemist who got two drops of dimethylmercury on her gloved hand and ended up dead a few months later. That shit's scary.
Dr Karen Wetterhahn. Chubbyemu did an amazing video about the clinical side of her story and her final days succumbing to mercury poisoning, as well as how she was able to make use of her time to spread awareness about the dangers of mercury, and bring about much stricter safety protocols for handling it.
Or inhale it. And smearing the chess pieces in mercury is likely to lead to inhaling lot.
If it's on your hands, it'll transfer to whatever you eat.
Can I put it in a butt?
At least once you can
"chess champion" makes it sound like she's a GM or somrthing. She doesn't have any FIDE titles.
She did probably win some local chess-related competition, which technically makes her a "chess champion". See also parks & rec "award winning" meme/quote.
Just typical editorial exaggeration and clickbait, par for the course in today's "journalism". I hate it.
This is how pokemon would go in real life, you just straight up trying to murder that asshole rival
Pika, take out the power the grid; Sudo woodos, surround the city with your bodies; Mr mimes, night vision on and move in. Leave none for the Murkrows
She never heard of cameras?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is quite unpleasant behavior that shouldn't necessarily be encouraged.
If only their government didn't do this exact behaviour
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