Poisoning people, pushing people out of windows, and shooting people twice in the back of the head. The holy trinity of Russian assassinations.
You had the chance to legitimately used ‘defenestration’ and you didn’t jump on it?!
No no, the point is to make someone jump on it. In this case, it was you!
I’m not taking the fall!
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.
They also started a misinformation campaign about a female boxer’s gender.
Russian suicides you mean? Russian has never once in its history killed anyone, they died of their own accord.
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.
Oooo, I heard putin like chess? Maybe he could play next?
It’s a product of the state of a country that calls Gary Kasparov a terrorist. https://www.chess.com/news/view/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-kasparov-on-terrorist-charges
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is “Never get involved in a land war in Ukraine.” But only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against a Russian when death is on the line!”
I told y’all in 2020 - build a giant fence around there and nobody go in for 100 years. After that we’ll check on ‘em. But nooooo “it’s too expensive” pfffft. And now look - it’s . . . whatever this is!
We could have had Australia 2!
At least they didn’t “fall out the window.”
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
…guy fucking lemms.
Tankies: is this critical support?
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.
Nice to see an instance of my favorite word in the wild.
Teledildonics?
Good guess.
Should I be scared to google it?
You might like what you find.
This sounds like a mini threat
Edit: holy macaroni the future is now
The only murder in Antarctica was a Russian killing somrone with an ice ax over a game of chess.
The Russians did it again in 2018, apparently. This time either over a rude comment or a book spoiler.
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.
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.
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?
Russia has enough of a population that crazies pop up. Think Florida man.
Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.
Its pretty common practice to cheat. Jon Jones has been getting away with cheating for years.
Sounds Russian.
Should have used polonium instead, like the dear leader
Season 2 of The Queen’s Gambit sounds crazy.
Mad Max crossover confirmed
This is a story made for all the chess meme communities
Opening move Move poison to c1 Poison opponent
If chess players do this, what do you think Russian secret service it’s capable of?
