Now facing a possible prison sentence, Amina Abakarova, 43, was caught on a security camera appearing to smear her rival’s ...

Amina Abakarova, a 40 year-old player from the Russian Republic of Dagestan, was scheduled to play Umayganat Osmanova, a 30 year-old longtime rival who had beaten Abakarova into second place in a ...

Now that’s a fool’s gambit. A Russian chess champion allegedly attempted to poison an opponent at a recent tournament in a brazen caught-on-camera move. Security footage from Aug. 2 appeared ...

Russian chess player Amina Abakarova faces a possible lifetime ban after allegedly allegedly tried to poison her opponent Umaiganat Osmanova by smearing pieces with mercury at a tournament in ...

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 ...

Amina Abakarova—a chess coach from Makhachkala, Russia—has been arrested and accused of poisoning an opponent with mercury, according to Russian state media reports via Tarjei J. Svensen of ...