In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury
At least it wasn't novichok.
@arstechnica nazdrovje as they say
@arstechnica Russia should get kicked out of professional chess unless they hold the player accountable for cheating and attempted murder.
@arstechnica Polonium to E4
@arstechnica @DarthPutinKGB must be pleased.
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I guess it's easier than poisoning their anal beads...
@arstechnica maybe she was forced to do it. She would have probably won anyway, so it seems weird. Putin does like his subjects to only have a place in his kingdom.
@arstechnica Paging @cstross
@arstechnica Mercury poisoned chess sets, cheating with teledildonics... why are chess players so strange?
@arstechnica "Considering duly that a prince's court Is like a common fountain, whence should flow Pure silver drops in general, but if 't chance Some curs'd example poison 't near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land spread."
- The Duchess of Malfi, Act I, Scene I. John Webster
@arstechnica russia is a terrorist state
@arstechnica russian tropism :)
@arstechnica I’m pretty sure that this was a plot line in “Death in Paradise” a couple of years ago https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18236162/