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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 16:30:55 -0400
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On 8/9/2024 8:36 AM, JAB wrote:
> 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/
> 

I was fortunate during the mid-60s to have been acquainted with Fr. 
William Lombardi, who was Bobby Fischer's second in his famous match 
versus Boris Spassky. He told me these guys are as competitive and will 
try anything to undermined their opponent.




-- 
Dr. Auric D. Hellman
adhellman1@gmail.com