CHESS GIRL'S FATAL FALL.A TEENAGE British chess prodigy Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults on equal ground; it is thus one of the few skills in which true child who plunged to her death from a hotel balcony may have been sleepwalking, it was claimed yesterday. Jessie Gilbert Jessica "Jessie" Gilbert (January 30 1987 – July 26 2006) was a British chess player. Biography Brought up in Woldingham, Surrey to Angela and Ian Gilbert, her father was a career manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland. , 19, was found dead outside the Hotel Labe in Pardubice, in the Czech Republic, where she was playing in a tournament. Last night, both Czech police and Foreign Office officials in the UK ruled out foul play and suggested the teenager had committed suicide. Friends revealed that Jessie, of Caterham, Surrey, recently said that she had a problem with sleepwalking. She was also concerned about her parents' recent bitter divorce. But British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess magazine in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since including during World War I and World War II. It is frequently known in the chess world as BCM. editor John Saunders said: "No one believes she could have taken her own life." |
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