As if 2022’s (totally not true) anal beads cheating scandal wasn’t wild enough, the chess world has now been rocked by several more serious allegations: Two players have been suspended, one ...

Video appears to show the moment a Russian chess champion smeared poison on pieces that were about to be used by a rival. Amina Abakarova, 43, has been arrested and suspended after allegedly ...

"We have video proof showing that one of the players at the Dagestani chess championship, Amina Abakarova from the city of Makhachkala, applied an unidentified substance, which later turned out to ...