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Cataphract , (edited )

Once again, 105 comments and nothing about the actual article and it’s information. Plenty of xenophobic comments against a population of a country (like the U.S. government is that great, so therefor I must be exactly like my political leaders). The Chess players had already competed against each other and the other player who was poisoned won by a default with a tie. There’s some other reporting about a confrontation between the two and they’ve known each other for years apparently.

Chessbase said the dispute was over a recent match between the two in which “both chess players scored the same number of points, but the victory was awarded to Osmanova, based on additional factors.”

Another Telegram channel says that the issue was about negative statements made by Osmanova about Abakarova and her family members.

One Russian news outlet said that the two had known each other for years but had recently fought. In this version of the story, Abakarova showed up to one recent match with a phone, which is against the rules. Osmanova was upset but did not tell the judges. “She should have been grateful to me that I didn’t make a fuss and forgave her,” Osmanova said. “Instead, Amina refused to shake my hand during the competition last week.”

Definitely not ok either way and I hope that they get a sentencing that matches the crime. This is just a bitter crazy person it seems and has nothing to do about poisoning to win a match. Love the disconnect on the sports world and rampant cheating like it doesn’t exist everywhere lol.

edit: some grammar

RubyRhod ,

…guy fucking lemms.

umbraroze ,

Intercepted message:

No no no no no no.

You throw the board out of the window.

The opponent goes “Oh no! My board!” and runs after it.

You have failed the basic training, agent.

ZeffSyde ,

Self defenstration! Genius.

Socsa , (edited )

Tankies: is this critical support?

phoenixz ,

What is it with Russian athletes (being it mental or physical) just always cheating so much that at this point it’s just expected?

Would it have anything to do with living in a dictatorship with a leader who always needs to be perceived as the best with the best countryband the best people because of his policies?

drunkpostdisaster ,

Its pretty common practice to cheat. Jon Jones has been getting away with cheating for years.

theacharnian ,
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca avatar

Russia has enough of a population that crazies pop up. Think Florida man.

tleb ,

Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.

Bluefalcon ,

Season 2 of The Queen’s Gambit sounds crazy.

Socsa ,

Mad Max crossover confirmed

feedum_sneedson ,

she cute

shalva97 ,

Russians doing Russian things

Lizardking27 ,

Actually that’s allowed, google en poissant.

stringere ,

Googling “en poissant” yields “en passant” as a suggested term.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant

En poissant = in sticking En passant = in passing En poissant = in fish

Je suis hereux d’apprendre quelques psuedo-homonymes en francais ce jour!

Merci!

Krauerking ,

WOOOSHHH

Is the sound the pun made as it just whizzed by you.

Lizardking27 ,

Merci à vous! I do not know French, and my comment was a pun on “en passant” using the word “poison”, but I appreciate the free lesson!

stringere ,

Vous etes remerci. “You’re welcome” is literally “you are rewelcome”. :)

amansman ,

Holy nightshade!

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Actual Russian.

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

What a weird way to try to poison someone. Mercury is really only poisonous under specific circumstances. Specifically, it is extremely dangerous to breath its vapors.

Touching it, or being near a small amount of it a few feet away really doesn’t do anything. It’s a safe-ish substance to make casual contact with (still not safe, but not profoundly noxious either).

There have been cases of people surviving drinking and even injecting mercury, as it isn’t toxic the way you might think it is under most circumstances.

It is still quite a dangerous thing, and using it maliciously (even if you have no idea what you’re doing) is no joke. Fortunately, the person targeted here is likely unaffected by mercury exposure.

isolatedscotch ,

should’ve used dimethylmercury

Wilzax ,

The potion of instant dementia

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

And kill everyone in the building?

CanadaPlus , (edited )

I don’t know what the exact rules are here, but if there’s no specific clause about it one surviving competitor is technically a win.

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

Cut to the chess judges frantically flipping through the rulebook like in Air Bud…

redhorsejacket ,

I mean, the article states that the victim did suffer some symptoms, so I wouldn’t say they were totally unaffected. If the article is accurate, would it be possible that she was inhaling vapor from the spill? The victim is quoted as saying she had to be at that board for 5 hours, and the Wikipedia article indicates that the primary danger of elemental mercury is inhalation of vapor (it claims 80% absorption rate via respiration, as opposed to the 1% via direct contact). Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of chemistry, so I’ve no idea if my speculation is plausible. How much room temp mercury would need to be sitting in front of you before you felt the effects of the vapor. Or even if you would at all, since the CDC website says the vapor is more dense than air.

Additionally, I noticed that one of the symptoms of mercury inhalation is cognitive impairment. Obviously this is more speculation, but perhaps the intent was not to kill, but rather to sabotage the victim’s play? After all, it seems like the perpetrator and the victim were rivals. Could be a Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding situation, just more classically Russian what with the use of poison rather than brute force.

fmstrat ,

Oliver Carroll, a Ukraine war correspondent for The Economist, summed up the situation with some social media snark: “I know that on the standards of Russian doping it’s perhaps only a 7 out of 10. But still…”

carl_dungeon ,

Sounds pretty Russian

AFC1886VCC ,

Poisoning people, pushing people out of windows, and shooting people twice in the back of the head. The holy trinity of Russian assassinations.

Angry_Autist ,

You had the chance to legitimately used ‘defenestration’ and you didn’t jump on it?!

Shou ,

No no, the point is to make someone jump on it. In this case, it was you!

Natanael ,

I’m not taking the fall!

Shou ,

No no. You see. You didn’t actually chose to jump on it, the other person made you. You have no say in the taking the fall.

ZILtoid1991 ,

They also started a misinformation campaign about a female boxer’s gender.

Th3D3k0y ,

Russian suicides you mean? Russian has never once in its history killed anyone, they died of their own accord.

aidan ,

This wasn’t assassination though, the headline is just deceptive. It was just a lone psycho in Russia trying to kill another Russian. Not an international competition, like was implied in the headline. (Or at least that’s the impression I got from the headline.

abfarid , (edited )
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

Arstechnica.

Edit: for those not understanding the joke, arsenic (As) is another toxic metal.

lemonmelon ,

The Quicksilver Gambit? In modern chess? We’re far beyond that!

ArugulaZ ,

Between this, the antisemitism of Bobby Fischer, and the guy cheating with the power of teledildonics, I have to wonder what the hell is up with chess players.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nice to see an instance of my favorite word in the wild.

AnxiousOtter ,

Teledildonics?

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Good guess.

volvoxvsmarla ,

Should I be scared to google it?

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You might like what you find.

volvoxvsmarla ,

This sounds like a mini threat

Edit: holy macaroni the future is now

Ulfhethnar ,

The only murder in Antarctica was a Russian killing somrone with an ice ax over a game of chess.

CanadaPlus ,

The Russians did it again in 2018, apparently. This time either over a rude comment or a book spoiler.

naevaTheRat ,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Hmmm lets examine this statement.

Isolated weird place, scary Russians, Russian stereotypes of intellectual game + tremendous violence.

Gee, it almost sounds like this is a too convenient racist lie. Any proof? The oldest reference just says ‘it totally happened’ and cites something I can’t access on Google books. It’s 20 years after the fact and not a primary source.

TranscendentalEmpire ,

Hell hath no fury like a competitive nerd being put on a pedestal.

I think this happens a lot anytime someone who perceives themselves as being shunned by society gets too much positive feedback and an iota of power over people.

I think its the same reason why every nerdy twitch streamer ends up being outed as an abusive child predator.

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