Context: The annual Tata Steel chess tournament is going on. It's generally the first big event of the year, and consists of two invitational tournaments (the Masters section, consisting of top players, and the Challengers section, consisting of younger up-and-coming players) as well as multiple tournaments for amateurs. This incident occurred in the challengers section, between Uzbek grandmaster Nodirbek Yakubboev and Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu. When Yakubboev arrived at the board, his opponent extended her hand to shake (you do this before a chess game). Instead of shaking her hand, however, Yakubboev seemingly declined with a hand gesture and sat down. He also didn't offer his hand when he resigned at the end of the game (there's videos in the reddit post).
some random threads with lots of downkongs:
plot twist: this might have been regular autism 
on Yakubboev's part, and not religious 
autism. A couple people posted a video of him shaking hands with another female player at a different tournament (
update: He responded on twitter.
https://xcancel.com/NodirbekYakubb1/status/1883623565314101651#m
/r/chess reacts:
https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1iasbhn/nodirbek_yakubboev_responded_on_the_handshake/
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I thought the leagues were divided by the sexes?
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There's regular chess and then there's women's chess.
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Every piece is a queen
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There are open and women's categories. There's no men's category.
The woman he didn't shake hands with, Vaishali Rameshbabu, is a grandmaster in the open category.
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She also caused some minor seething a few weeks ago when she suggested getting rid of the women's version of titles.
https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1hwa142/wgm_title_should_be_abolished_vaishali_rameshbabu/
https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1hy01z9/indias_first_wgm_responds_to_gm_vaishalis/
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Hou Yifan, the former #1 woman grandmaster said similar things about women's chess titles kind of limiting the most elite players.
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Also Judit Polgar, still active and winning tournaments, but historically considered the best female player of all time, and only woman who ever had chances to become world champion.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/judit-polgar-abolish-women-titles
Women who want to keep the WGM titles are bunch of shitty players who just want to play with a smaller pool to increase their personal chances, also feminists and trains.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/yosha-iglesias-to-make-history-as-1st-transgender-wim
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Notably Joachim Iglesias, since he'd have plateaued at FM if he didn't
out for the WIM title 
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queen shit
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Impressive. I wanted to make a joke about losing to a foid, but if she's a grandmaster then honestly respect to her
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It's the same game they just play with pink pieces that cost 25% more
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Or Chess for Girls.
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