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[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.
In his defence, he later wrote in an apologetic
letter seen by the BBC that he
had "financial needs".]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/65280560