Sunday, May 11, 2008

Deaths of Chess Players

Originally by Bill Wall
Some samples...
Georgy Agzamov (1954-1986) - Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) - choked to death on a piece of meat in 1946
Vladimir Bagirov (1936-2000) - heart attack while playing chess in Finland
Claude Bloodgood (1924-2001) - lung cancer while in prison for life
Paolo Boi (1528-1598) - poisoned (murdered) in Naples
Jose Capablanca (1888-1942) - died after watching a skittles game at the Manhattan Chess Club in 1942.
Ed Edmundson (1920-1982) - died of a heart attack while playing chess on a beach in Hawaii
Aivars Gipslis (1937-2000) - stroke while playing chess in Berlin
Julius Perlis (1880-1913) - died in a mountain climb in the Alps in 1913.
Gideon Stahlberg (1908-1967) - heart attack during the 1967 Leningrad International tournament.
Abe Turner (1924-1962) - stabbed 9 times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office

1 Comments:

Blogger steven said...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

the offices of Chess Review must be an intense place.

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