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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.
There seem to be two standard situations of people dying a chess related death. The first one is due to a heart attack or stroke, often caused by the tension of a game of chess being played. Here are some examples: Johann Zukertort (1842-1888) died of a stroke while he was playing chess at the London coffee house Simpson's.
I have read this article somewhere which stated that it is because of playing too much Chess that these people lost their sanity and ended up in asylum. Some of them died miserably and somewhere Chess was the cause of it.
Joe Smolij (right), in a hospital bed, plays chess with Joy Scott (left) in Toronto. Judith Polgar, the world's youngest chess grand master, during a "chessathon" against the chess team of Harlem, 1992. Dave Gannicott and Ian Gordon play chess underwater for a charity fundraiser in Sydney, 1983.
It was made in 1963 by Time photographer Julian Wasser in Pasadena and shows Dada artist and chessplayer Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a naked woman. The picture was supposed to celebrate Marcel Duchamp but in the end it made Eve Babitz an icon.
19 sie 2014 · The death of a chess player in the middle of a match at the world’s most prestigious competition may have shocked those who view the game as a relaxing pastime. Kurt Meier, 67, collapsed during...
18 kwi 2014 · Want to win your games quickly using some of those powerful chess traps? Here is the list of all 10 of them! Opening Chess Traps: 1. Josef Emil Krejcik – Baumgartner, King Pawn Game: Busch-Gass Gambit (C40) 2. Gioachino GrecoItalian – Unknown Player, Italian Game Classical Variation, Center Attack (C53) 3.
