Tragic
I can't quite believe this.
A teenage chess champion has fallen to her death while competing in an international tournament.
Jessie Gilbert, 19, from Croydon, south London, fell from the eighth floor of the Hotel Labe in Pardubice, in the Czech Republic, on Wednesday morning.
I played her, once or twice, a few years back, when I was taking chess seriously.
It's so, so tragic. She was a pretty good - if not great - player for her age. She was going to go to Oxford in the autumn to study medicine. So, so sad.
-posted by Roy
