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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Theres many times players have been penalized for refusing to shake. Most of the time it had nothing to do with women. Its mostly Israeli and Iran players refusing to shake or Russia and Ukraine. Yes technically he is breaking the rules, but the current thing in chess is challenging stupid rules after weeks ago the No.1 player refused to take off his jeans after told to. The thing is, he forfeited the game and left tournament, and didnt try to justify his actions unlike here. This incidence is nothing but women just trying to get attention for themselves and make it about themselves again tbh.
Heres another example between Bulgarian and British players which resulted in Bulgarian player being forfeited after refusing to shake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Cheparinov#Handshake_controversy
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why do Bulgarians and British have beef?
trans lives matter
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