Scott Tortorice
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Chess Violence and Crime
Chess Violence and Crime
:clown:In 1982, at a chess tournament in London, one of the players complained to the tournament director that his opponent was rocking the table. After that situation was worked out, the same player complained to the TD that his opponent was making noises and threatened him with physical violence. The player then demanded his entry fee be refunded. The TD said no, so the player picked up someone’s chess clock and ran away. Later, the organizers received a call that if he didn’t get his entry fee back, they would never see their clock again.
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union banned cosmonauts from playing chess in space with each other (they can play against ground control personnel) after a fist fight once broke out between cosmonauts over a chess game.