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Russian chess champion caught poisoning her childhood rival by dabbing mercury on chess pieces

MAKHACHKALA: The chess world was stunned when a Russian chess champion, Amina Abakarova, was caught trying to poison her childhood rival. She allegedly covered her opponent’s chess pieces with mercury, a highly toxic substance, before a tournament in Makhachkala, southern Russia. Amina Abakarova, 43, is now facing possible imprisonment after security cameras captured her tampering […]

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