Chess champion caught smearing pieces with mercury to poison rival

A female Russian chess champion has been caught on CCTV smearing pieces with mercury to poison her childhood rival ahead of a contest.

Amina Abakarova, 43, was filmed as she walked into the tournament hall of the Dagestan Chess Championship in Makhachkala, southern , last Friday and took what appeared to be a vial out of her bag.

She went on to pour the contents of the vial - which turned out to be mercury - over a chess board and tried to conceal the liquid by wiping the board with a chess piece.

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