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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB <here@is.invalid> Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:36:23 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <v952g8$nnj8$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: JAB <here@is.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:36:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e6a600268a9b7fceee7fa281898a6800"; logging-data="777832"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IBJkGP/V1rxMcBSCborto" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:OukkZeUYVwHEHd90rqY+/P7K3pg= Bytes: 1661 In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury At least it wasn't novichok. Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both defectors in the UK and internal political rivals like Alexei Navalny. But a new "first" in the long history of poisonings was opened this month in the Russian republic of Dagestan, where a 40-something chess player named Amina Abakarova attempted to poison a rival by depositing liquid mercury on and around her chess board. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/08/in-world-first-russian-chess-player-poisons-rivals-board-with-mercury/