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So two players did get in a fight in at the 2020 Gibraltar event. As far as I know they both spent a night in the cell and were then released, with no further incident. They're amateur players, not famous GMs, so I see no reason for them to be named.
12 kwi 2021 · The chess community is in uproar after footage of a fight between two grandmasters leaked. The fight, from 2018, is newly relevant thanks to a series of disputes between Hikaru Nakamura and...
6 wrz 2021 · Some well known chess players have died in some... well... odd ways and sometimes tragic ways... Here are a few examples I found online. Some of these stories you'll probably know. Some perhaps not. 1.) On March 24, 1946, Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) choked to death on a piece of meat.
4 gru 2023 · It’s unclear who threw the first punch, but it devolved into a fight, in which Benko emerged the victor. He later stated his regret in beating up Fischer, adding somewhat pettily, “He was a sick man, even then.”
22 lis 2007 · Deaths of Chess Players. 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. Johann Allgaier (1763-1823) - dropsy.
18 sty 2022 · Lubomir Kavalek. Czech-American GM Lubomir Kavalek, a former number-10 in the world, died in January at the age of 77. Inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2001, he was one of the first and most elite players to flee the Soviet bloc for the West. Lubomir Kavalek at 1981 U.S. Championship.
Claude Frizzell Bloodgood III (alias: Klaus Frizzel Bluttgutt III; July 14, 1937 – August 4, 2001) was a controversial American chess player. As a young man, he got into trouble with the law and was arrested several times.
