Grim Up North 3,725 Posted November 28, 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38129713 Russian chess champion Yuri Yeliseyev dies in Moscow fall aged 20 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted November 28, 2016 And indeed Mark Taimanov, Russian GM, concert pianist and DDP pick has died aged 90. http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/the-chess-grandmaster-who-doubled-as-a-concert-pianist/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JiroemonKimura 95 Posted November 28, 2016 And indeed Mark Taimanov, Russian GM, concert pianist and DDP pick has died aged 90. http://slippedisc.com/2016/11/the-chess-grandmaster-who-doubled-as-a-concert-pianist/ DDP obit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38129713 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted January 17, 2017 International Master, and World Correspondence Chess Champion (1965-1968), Hans Berliner, has died aged 87. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted January 22, 2017 Cristina Adela Foisor, Romanian IM, has died aged 49. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted April 5, 2017 The Dean of American Chess, Arthur Bisguier, reportedly dies aged 87. http://www.worldchesshof.org/hall-of-fame/us-chess/arthur-bernard-bisguier/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bisguier Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted June 21, 2017 Popular deadpool pick, 110-year-old chess grandmaster Zoltan Sarosy dead according to Twitter and Wikipedia's Deaths in 2017 page. Edit: Facebook post used as source. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted June 21, 2017 Been holding off myself on reporting on this one until something more concrete came. It's been about 24 hours since I saw the first post and none of the usual chess sources have mentioned it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted October 1, 2017 Larissa Volpert, Soviet Women's Chess Champion (1954, 1958, 1959) and a Women's Grand Master since 1977, has died aged 91. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,220 Posted October 13, 2017 Former chess grandmaster William Lombardy is dead at 79. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 15, 2017 On 10/13/2017 at 17:56, Joey Russ said: Former chess grandmaster William Lombardy is dead at 79. Traded in his king for the King of Kings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted September 2, 2018 UK grandmaster Nigel Short is now trying to become the boss of the World Chess Organization FIDE and is now up against a crony of the current FIDE boss Ilyumzhinov (Russian) and "the other Russian" Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Kremlin aide: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/02/who-will-be-king-three-way-battle-for-control-rocks-international-chess hmm... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted April 3, 2019 Eva Moser, Austrian Women Grandmaster title holder and the country's most accomplished female chess player, has died. She was 36. Moser, had battled leukemia. https://en.chessbase.com/post/eva-moser-died-of-leukaemia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted August 15, 2019 Shelby Lyman, syndicated chess columnist and the guy who presented coverage of the Fischer-Spassky match in the early 1970s, dead at 82: https://new.uschess.org/news/shelby-lyman-dies-age-82/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted August 26, 2019 Hungarian-American grandmaster and author Pal Benko dead at 91 years https://www.chess.com/news/view/pal-benko-dies-1928-2019 He set a record with eight U.S. Open Chess Championship victories. He has written several books on chess, including 1991's "Winning with Chess Psychology." 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted August 26, 2020 Chess grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann, who during his time was considered one of the most outstanding East German players ever, died at 85 years: https://www.tag24.de/dresden/lokales/schach-legende-wolfgang-uhlmann-ist-tot-1625452 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted September 5, 2020 Dmitry Svetushkin, a Moldovan chess grandmaster, has died. He was 40. Svetushkin died by suicidal jump. https://www.zdg.md/stiri/doliu-in-sahul-moldovenesc-a-decedat-marele-maestru-international-dumitru-svetuskin-avea-doar-40-de-ani/ (Romanian language obit) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted January 8, 2021 Kveta Eretova, a Czech female chess championship winner has died at 94: https://www.chess.cz/zemrela-kveta-eretova/ Czech mate! (Yes, that joke is also in her DDP biography, because she has been picked this year, IIRC.) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 9, 2021 16 hours ago, gcreptile said: Kveta Eretova, a Czech female chess championship winner has died at 94: https://www.chess.cz/zemrela-kveta-eretova/ Czech mate! (Yes, that joke is also in her DDP biography, because she has been picked this year, IIRC.) Czech mate to English language obits as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,595 Posted January 9, 2021 17 hours ago, gcreptile said: Kveta Eretova, a Czech female chess championship winner has died at 94: https://www.chess.cz/zemrela-kveta-eretova/ Czech mate! (Yes, that joke is also in her DDP biography, because she has been picked this year, IIRC.) So the joke is now stale, mate. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,701 Posted January 15, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yrjö_Rantanen Yrjö Rantanen, one of the best Finnish chess players and one of the only six Finns to reach the Grandmaster title has resigned. He was 70. https://www.shakkiliitto.fi/suurmestari-yrjo-rantanen-on-kuollut/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted January 19, 2021 Czech-American chess player Lubomir Kavalek, who won national championships in both countries, died at 77 years: https://www.sport.cz/ostatni/ostatni/clanek/2021263-smutna-zprava-v-77-letech-zemrel-legendarni-sachista-kavalek.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=z-boxiku&utm_source=www.seznam.cz#hp-sez He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965 and he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2001. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grobler 35 Posted January 19, 2021 9 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said: Czech-American chess player Lubomir Kavalek, who won national championships in both countries, died at 77 years: https://www.sport.cz/ostatni/ostatni/clanek/2021263-smutna-zprava-v-77-letech-zemrel-legendarni-sachista-kavalek.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=z-boxiku&utm_source=www.seznam.cz#hp-sez He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965 and he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2001. Coach of Nigel Short in the past...so surely will get an obit . Ive spent the last week or so researching my favorite sport . I may well finally lose my DDP Theme cherry in 2022.....but Kavalek was well off the radar to be honest... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grobler 35 Posted January 19, 2021 hmm....I wonder if TTT is a fellow chess player ?...we need to keep this thread popular next year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted February 12, 2021 A Guardian article notified me that Yuri Averbakh celebrated his 99th birthday last week, and could become the first centenarian grandmaster: https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/yuri_averbakh_celebrates_his_99th_birthday/ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/12/magnus-carlsen-survives-disgusting-blunders-against-daniil-dubov 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
