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Chess champ not defending title in Saudi over women's rights
short by Anmol Sharma / on Wednesday, 27 December, 2017
Ukrainian double world chess champion Anna Muzychuk is not participating in this week's world championship being held in Saudi Arabia over women's rights. In a Facebook post, the 27-year-old wrote, "I decided...not to play by someone's rules, not to wear abaya...and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature." Earlier, Israeli chess players were barred from participating in the tournament.
read more at Hindustan Times