Chess Champion Anna Muzychuck refuses to play in Saudi Arabia over treatment of women

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Two-time world chess champion Anna Muzychuk has said she will not attend a tournament held in Saudi Arabia because of the way the kingdom treats women as "secondary creatures'.

The landmark event and its record $2m (€1.7m) prize pot comes as crown prince Mohammed bin Salman looks to repackage his oil-rich nation as more welcoming – and moderate.

On Christmas Eve Muzychuk said she would not attend the tournament, citing the kingdom's restrictions on the movement of women.

"I am going to lose two world champion titles - one by one," she wrote on Facebook.

"Just because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone's rules, not to wear abaya, not to be accompanied getting outside and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature," she said.


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