It was a bold gambit by the 25-year-old Kenyan chess player to disguise himself as a woman to compete in his country’s female open chess tournament.
Dressed head to toe in a burka and wearing spectacles, Stanley Omondi had registered himself as Millicent Awour.
But Omondi’s daring move was exposed as the organisers got suspicious by the unknown player’s success.
h/t Sweetpea
