Now that’s a idiot’s gambit.
A Russian chess champion allegedly tried to poison an opponent at a current match in a brazen caught-on-camera transfer.
Safety footage from Aug. 2 appeared to seize Amina Abakarova, 40, sneaking into the match room of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, a metropolis in southern Russia, whereas checking to see if the coast was clear, the Solar reported.
As soon as inside, she walked casually by way of the room earlier than stopping at one of many many chessboards arrange, taking a fast look to see if anyone was trying after which taking one thing from her bag.
Abakarova then appeared to pour a substance throughout the desk and onto the chessboard, earlier than rubbing it on a number of items. She then slipped out of the room.
Her alleged goal, 30-year-old rival Umayganat Osmanova, sat on the spot she’d unfold with the substance and ended up falling unwell throughout the match.
Abakarova’s try was found after a match choose reported Osmanova’s suspicious sickness to police, and safety tapes have been checked.
She later admitted to the tried poisoning, telling police she’d damaged a thermometer over the desk and unfold mercury throughout the board.
However Abakarova insisted it was Osmanova who opened hostilities between them — claiming her rival had been badmouthing her and her household after profitable at a earlier match.
“I’m perplexed by what occurred, and the motives of such an skilled competitor as Amina Abakarova are incomprehensible,” mentioned native Minister of Sport Sazhida Sazhidova.
“The actions she took might have led to a most tragic final result, threatening the lives of everybody who was current, together with herself.”
Abakarova faces three years in jail if convicted on fees of intentional infliction of bodily hurt.
She took dwelling the North Caucasus Federal District Chess Championship in close by Pyatigorsk final yr and works as a chess coach at a faculty in Makhachkala.
