A promising chess grandmaster has plunged to his death from a Moscow apartment block in what appeared to have been a feat of daring gone wrong. Yeliseyev won a world junior chess championship in 2012 and became a grandmaster in 2013. He won this year’s Moscow Open and was ranked 212th by the World Chess Federation. Chess masters show virtues of a slower pace of sport | Sean Ingle Read moreHis death has shocked the chess world and made national headlines in a country that reveres the game. The tragedy came just before the final world chess championship match on Monday between the title-holder, Magnus Carlsen, and the Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2016 17:18 UTC