2008 in Chess - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 17 – Bobby Fischer, 64, the 11th World Champion, dies in Iceland.
  • May 24 – Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian GM and many time Georgian Champion.
  • June 9 – Karen Asrian, 28, Armenian GM, three times Armenian Chess Champion, dies of a suspected heart attack in Yerevan.
  • August 10 – Igor Zakharevich, 25, Russian GM.
  • August 20 – Mario Bertok, 78, Croatian IM dies in a swimming accident in Jarun Lake, Zagreb.
  • August 21/21 – Vladimir Bukal, 68, Croatian IM dies overnight in Zagreb. Bukal won the 2002 European Senior Championship.
  • November 29 – Robert Wade, 87, winner of multiple New Zealand and British chess championships, IM and International Arbiter, dies in London of pneumonia.
  • December 10 – Mark Diesen, 51, American IM and 1976 World Junior Champion.
  • December 20 – Albin Planinc, 64, Yugloslav/Slovenian GM.
  • December 24 – Hugh Myers, 78, American master and writer on unorthodox openings, dies in Davenport, Iowa.

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