There’s a video of her putting the mercury on the board
Am I seeing it right thats she’s not wearing gloves?
What is it with Russian athletes (being it mental or physical) just always cheating so much that at this point it’s just expected?
Would it have anything to do with living in a dictatorship with a leader who always needs to be perceived as the best with the best countryband the best people because of his policies?
Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.
Russia has enough of a population that crazies pop up. Think Florida man.
Its pretty common practice to cheat. Jon Jones has been getting away with cheating for years.
Season 2 of The Queen’s Gambit sounds crazy.
Mad Max crossover confirmed
she cute
Russians doing Russian things
Actually that’s allowed, google en poissant.
Holy nightshade!
Googling “en poissant” yields “en passant” as a suggested term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
En poissant = in sticking En passant = in passing En poissant = in fish
Je suis hereux d’apprendre quelques psuedo-homonymes en francais ce jour!
Merci!
WOOOSHHH
Is the sound the pun made as it just whizzed by you.
Merci à vous! I do not know French, and my comment was a pun on “en passant” using the word “poison”, but I appreciate the free lesson!
Vous etes remerci. “You’re welcome” is literally “you are rewelcome”. :)
What a weird way to try to poison someone. Mercury is really only poisonous under specific circumstances. Specifically, it is extremely dangerous to breath its vapors.
Touching it, or being near a small amount of it a few feet away really doesn’t do anything. It’s a safe-ish substance to make casual contact with (still not safe, but not profoundly noxious either).
There have been cases of people surviving drinking and even injecting mercury, as it isn’t toxic the way you might think it is under most circumstances.
It is still quite a dangerous thing, and using it maliciously (even if you have no idea what you’re doing) is no joke. Fortunately, the person targeted here is likely unaffected by mercury exposure.
should’ve used dimethylmercury
And kill everyone in the building?
I don’t know what the exact rules are here, but if there’s no specific clause about it one surviving competitor is technically a win.
Cut to the chess judges frantically flipping through the rulebook like in Air Bud…
The potion of instant dementia
I mean, the article states that the victim did suffer some symptoms, so I wouldn’t say they were totally unaffected. If the article is accurate, would it be possible that she was inhaling vapor from the spill? The victim is quoted as saying she had to be at that board for 5 hours, and the Wikipedia article indicates that the primary danger of elemental mercury is inhalation of vapor (it claims 80% absorption rate via respiration, as opposed to the 1% via direct contact). Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of chemistry, so I’ve no idea if my speculation is plausible. How much room temp mercury would need to be sitting in front of you before you felt the effects of the vapor. Or even if you would at all, since the CDC website says the vapor is more dense than air.
Additionally, I noticed that one of the symptoms of mercury inhalation is cognitive impairment. Obviously this is more speculation, but perhaps the intent was not to kill, but rather to sabotage the victim’s play? After all, it seems like the perpetrator and the victim were rivals. Could be a Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding situation, just more classically Russian what with the use of poison rather than brute force.
At least they didn’t “fall out the window.”
‘traditional russian values’ on display for all to see
Oliver Carroll, a Ukraine war correspondent for The Economist, summed up the situation with some social media snark: “I know that on the standards of Russian doping it’s perhaps only a 7 out of 10. But still…”
I don’t get this, mercury will absorb into the skin but it’s not lethal unless you’re exposed to a constant amount over time
Evidently, she didn’t understand that dimethylmercury is not the same thing as elemental mercury.
What’s the difference? (So I don’t embarass myself at my next chess tournament.)
Oooo, I heard putin like chess? Maybe he could play next?
This opening move is called “The Russian Statesman”. Very traditional.
Sounds pretty Russian
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is “Never get involved in a land war in Ukraine.” But only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against a Russian when death is on the line!”
