This message was originally submitted by skb@
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> TA Colquhoun wrote:
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>> Is there something slightly Nabokovian about this?
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>>  From The Times today:
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>>   Chess world mourns tragic death of young female star
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>> By Grainger Laffan in Prague and Adam Fresco
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>> The British chess world was in shock today after one of its rising
>> female stars died in a fall from an eighth floor balcony during the
>> world’s biggest tournament.
>
For what it's worth, subsequent media gossip suggested that the young chess
player had suffered unwanted attentions from her father.
I believe the verdict was genuine suicide -- not a cover-up as in the Czech
defenestrations.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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