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| Posted by chessisvanity play-chess-online.com 6/21/2008 18:41:23 play online chess |  Subject: Chess is ToughMessage: Born/Death Cause of Death Abe Turner 1924 / 1962 Stabbed nine times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office. Alexander Alekhine 1892 / 1946 Choked to death on a piece of meat. Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky 1894 / 1941 Died in the siege of Leningrad while on a barge. Alexander McDonnell 1798 / 1835 Died of Bright's disease. Alexander Zaitsev 1935 / 1971 Died of thrombosis as a consequence of a leg operation. Alexi Troitzky 1866 / 1942 Died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad. Aron Nimzovich 1886 / 1935 Died of pneumonia. Carl Schlechter 1874 / 1918 Died from pneumonia and starvation. Curt von Bardeleben 1861 / 1924 Threw himself out the window of his boarding home. David Bronstein 1924 / 2006 Died of a stroke in Minsk, Belarus at age 82. David Przepiorka 1880 / 1940 Died in a mass execution outside Warsaw. Ed Edmundson 1920 / 1982 Died of a heart attack while playing Chess on a beach in Hawaii. Edgar Colle 1897 / 1932 Died after an operation for a gastric ulcer. Efim Bogoljubov 1889 / 1952 Suffered a heart attack after a simultaneous display. Frank Marshall 1877 / 1944 Died of a heart attack after leaving a Chess tournament. Frederick Yates 1884 / 1932 Died in his sleep from a leak in a faulty gas pipe connection. George Koltanowski 1903 / 2000 Heart failure at the age of 97. George Mackenzie 1837 / 1891 Suicide: took an overdose of morphine. Georgy Agzamov 1954 / 1986 Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died. Gideon Stahlberg 1908 / 1967 Died during the 1967 Leningrad International tournament. Gyula Breyer 1893 / 1921 Died from heart disease. Harry Pillsbury 1872 / 1906 Died of syphillis. Herman Steiner 1905 / 1955 Died after a California State Championship game. Howard Staunton 1810 / 1874 Died of a heart attack while writing a Chess book. Janos Flesch 1933 / 1983 Died in a car wreck. Johann Zukertort 1842 / 1888 Died of a stroke while playing Chess at a London coffee-house. Johannes Minckwitz 1843 / 1901 Suicide: threw himself under a train. Jose Capablanca 1888 / 1942 Died of a stroke while watching a skittles game at the Manhattan Chess Club. Julius P |