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Shocking news from Czech Open in Pardubice. |
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Per Söderberg |
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Jul 28, 06 - 1:26 PM |
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News from British Chess Magasin (BCM):
"Early on 27 July, BCM heard the appalling news that the 19-year-old English women's international player Jessie Gilbert died on 26 July. In early hours of that morning she had fallen from an 8th floor balcony of hotel Labe in Pardubice, Czech Republic, where she had been taking part in the Czech Open tournament. Nobody knows precisely what happened and police are currently investigating. As well as being a promising player (she scored a creditable 5½/11 on board two for Engand in the Turin Olympiad), Jessie was a delightful, courteous and well-liked member of the UK chess community. She had been taking a gap year to gain her WIM norms before taking up a place at Oxford to read medicine. BCM sends its deepest condolences to Jessie's family and her many chess friends. Times Online article quotes a Czech organiser speculating that it might have been suicide. People who knew Jessie well think this is highly improbable. BCM has also been informed by more than one chess world source that she was known to her friends to have been a sleepwalker." |
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