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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She does NOT have any right to touch his hand. He doesn't owe her a handshake because they played a game together.
Women never seem to understand consent.
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