Sunday, November 27, 2016

SK will examine the circumstances of the death of a young grandmaster Eliseeva – the Newspaper Trud

Maria Petrova

17:11 27 Nov 2016.

Posted on 17:11 27 Nov 2016.

the 20-year-old player fell off a balcony of the 12th floor

on Sunday it became known about the death of a chess player Yuri Eliseev is a promising GM, who had for twenty years, winning several major competitions. Later on Saturday evening a young man was trying to climb out the window onto the balcony of the house located on Pyatnitskoye highway, but could not resist and fell from the height of the 12th floor. The circumstances of the death of a chess player said to his friend Daniil Dubov; later information was confirmed by law enforcement.

“on the Evening of 26 November, while in the apartment houses on Pyatnitskoe highway, 20-year-old young man decided to climb out the window of the 12th floor balcony of the same apartment, but could not resist and fell down,” – said the representative of the Main investigation Department of the IC RF in Moscow Yulia Ivanova, adding that in a rented apartment Elisha was staying with friends.

“From the received traumas it has died on the spot,” she said. Russia’s investigative Committee launched an investigation aimed at “establishing all the circumstances of the incident”.

According to friends Eliseeva, a young man was fond of parkour: the Internet was common where he’s hanging on the wall in the same hand. Coach of Junior team of Russia Mikhail Kobalia said that he did not know about the dangerous passion of his young ward. “But now I was told that he was doing parkour. Apparently, this was in line with his desire to go to the point, don’t know,” he told NTV, also noting that Elisha was “very original” and he “in chess, and in life were on your way.”

Many Russian players have noted that during the conflict in the chess was a great prospect. Grandmaster he was in 2013, at the age of 17 years; before that he managed to win the world cadet championship in 2012, the championship of Russia in classical chess in the tournament for players under 16 years of age and Cup Moscow Open in early 2016. In the FIDE rating list (world chess Federation) Elisha took 212-e a place in the world and 42nd in Russia (among active players – 197 th in the world and 37th in Russian).

“It is a great tragedy – to leave at such a young age. I was not intimately acquainted with him, but we participated in the same competition, Yuri was a sports guy and very focused person. In early 2016 we played in the tournament Moscow Open, where he won first place. And, of course, Yuri was very nice prospects in chess”, – said the famous Russian chess player Ernesto Inarkiev.

the Main coach of Russian national team on chess Sergey Yanovsky called Eliseeva one of the most talented young grandmasters of the country and said that the players shocked by his death. “I knew very well George, he was a very talented player, a very bright boy, he always loved in the team. It is completely original – George always was looking for an unusual way at all, unusual decisions was very characteristic. He was one of the most talented young Russian Grand masters. This is a very heavy loss, and did not find the words, when these young people leave in the Prime of life, so incomprehensible. All players are shocked, it is a strike that does not understand”, – quotes his words “R-Sport”. Yanovsky also said that the young grandmaster “was always drawn to show their fearlessness and somewhere to climb”, but within reasonable limits. “such a show of fearlessness was always inherent in it,” he said.

Sincere condolences to the family and friends of chess expressed the Russian chess Federation and the Minister of sport Vitaly Mutko. “I can only Express my condolences to the family and friends. Always scary when you have young children so tragically ends the life. He was very talented, could bring many more benefits and activities, and the country. Very sorry,” he said.

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