A couple of chess players at the World Chess Olympiad went the biff over a young Australian woman chess player, Arianne Caoili. British grandmaster, Danny Gormally obviously had the hots for her, and when he saw her dancing in a nightclub with Armenian, Levon Aronian (ranked #3 in the world, so no mug chess player) he leapt into action, and punched him.

According to the England team captain:

“The bottom line is [that] this is just a little incident in a nightclub where unfortunately Danny probably had a drink too many and obviously saw someone dancing with a girl he liked and either hit or tried to hit them.”

Gormally and his team captain apologised to the Armenian team and Aronian the next morning, but while the apologies were being made, some of Aronian’s team mates went the fist.

Gormally left the Olympiad of his own volition, and now faces disciplinary action from the English Chess Federation.

And I always thought chess was a geekish game. No way, these guys can punch on just like footy players.

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