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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4f0ca17b1c999f21278a6656d50b90ba wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Amina Abakarova, 43, was filmed as she walked into the tournament hall of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, southern Russia , on Friday July 2 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97419e2b1ddf3deed8fd05fc6e020a60 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Footage from the hall showed Abakarova walk into the empty tournament hall with a bag from which she took what appeared to be a vial and walk up to a table </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5f4df8a03196a45691ede542e076430 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>She went on to pour the contents of the vial over a chess board and tried to conceal the liquid by wiping the board with a chess piece &#8211; contents on analysis turned out to be mercury </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bc004addc66a926cafba7e93754078c wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Chess board targeted by Abakarova belongs to Umayganat Osmanova, 30, with whom she is said to have been feuding for years </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-90e472dfc1047b03cf8395db196b6c4e wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Osmanova, who was later sitting at the table where the poison was poured, was hospitalized with severe dizziness and nausea shortly after the tournament started </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-94c55051014f8a487c23d6b62ab67be4 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Police confirmed that an investigation was started under the charge of &#8216;inflicting bodily harm&#8217; </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a400ca6b3eec002972cfdc4098fb45d3 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong>Russian Chess Federation immediately stripped Abakarova of her title of Dagestan Chess Champion after reviewing the footage</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-73ef72a148867e8e1f74a639d78f9463 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#180101;font-size:14px"><strong> She&#8217;s also facing a lifetime ban by the Federation if convicted</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466196" style="width:838px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Amina Abakarova was filmed as she walked into the tournament hall of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, southern Russia , last Friday and took what appeared to be a vial out of her bag and pour the poison over her rival&#8217;s chess board</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A female Russian chess champion has been stripped of her title after she was caught on CCTV smearing pieces with mercury to poison her long time rival ahead of a tournament.<br>According to local sources the protagonists Amina Abakarova and her target Umayganat Osmanova, 30, are childhood rivals and had been feuding for years.<br>Abakarova, 43, was filmed as she walked into the tournament hall of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, southern Russia, on Friday August 2, and took what appeared to be a vial out of her bag.<br>She went on to pour the contents of the vial over a chess board and tried to conceal the liquid by wiping the board with a chess piece. <br>Later analysis revealed the contents of the vial to be mercury, a toxic and highly carcinogenic chemical.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Umayganat-Osmanova-1-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466234" style="width:833px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The board targeted by Abakarova belongs to log term chess rival Umayganat Osmanova, 30, [photo], with whom she is said to have been feuding for years</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-1-2-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466235" style="width:837px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Abakarova [photo], according to sources, poisoned her rival to take revenge for insulting her and her family</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Abakarova and Osmanova have been at odds with for years. Abakarova&#8217;s attack allegedly, as revenge for the latter insulting her and her family.<br>Witnesses said that Abakarova had behaved suspiciously 20 minutes before the contest started, asking if the cameras were set up to record the games being played were working yet.<br>When she was told they were not, she then executed her plot, first surveying her surroundings to make sure no one was watching as she approached Osmanova&#8217;s designated table for the tournament, to commit the dastardly act.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-5.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466241" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The footage shows Abakarova entering the hall, dropping a bag down under a, before walking over to the table behind while scanning the hall for possible watchers</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-4.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466240" style="width:830px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Abakarova took what appeared to be a vial out of her bag before pouring it out over pieces on her rival&#8217;s chess board</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-3.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466239" style="width:842px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>She went on to pour the contents of the vial &#8211; which turned out to be mercury &#8211; over a chess board and tried to conceal the liquid by wiping the board with a chess piece</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She was upended because she did not realize that the cameras had actually been switched on in the tournament hall ready for the event.<br>Osmanova, who was later sitting at the table where the poison was poured, reportedly got sick as the tournament shortly after the game was underway, with severe dizziness and nausea.<br>Subsequently, she was hospitalized with suspected mercury poisoning.<br>Police was called in when the CCTV footage from the tournament was reviewed by a judge, and Abakarova was spotted pouring the substance over Osmanova&#8217;s board.<br>&#8216;We have video proof showing that one of the players at the Dagestani chess championship, Amina Abakarova [&#8230;], applied an unidentified substance, which later turned out to contain mercury, to the table where Umayganat Osmanova [&#8230;] was set to play against her,&#8217; Sazhid Sazhidov, Russia&#8217;s minister of sport, told the <a class="" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/08/07/russian-chess-player-smears-pieces-mercury-poisons-rival/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Telegraph</a>.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amina-Abakarova-6.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466243" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Whilst the investigation is still in progress, the Russian Chess Federation proactively stripped Abakarova [photo], of her title of Dagestan Chess Champion with immediate effect, after the footage review. The outcome will decide if she gets a lifetime ban</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sazhidov added that he was &#8216;perplexed&#8217; by Abakarova&#8217;s attack and that her motives are &#8216;incomprehensible&#8217;.<br>Russian police confirmed that an investigation was started under the charge of &#8216;inflicting bodily harm&#8217;.<br>However, chess officials have not waited for the results of the police report, and confirm that Abakarova was immediately stripped of her title of Dagestan Chess Champion after they saw the footage.<br>The executive director of the Russian Chess Federation, Alexander Tkachyov, said that his organization was now considering banning Abakarova for life, but will wait on the outcome of the police investigation.</p>

Top Russian chess player stripped of title, charged after she’s caught on tournament hall CCTV smearing pieces with mercury to poison her childhood rival ahead of game
