10-Year-Old Boy Jumps to Death After Losing Chess Match

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10-Year-Old Boy Jumps to Death After Losing Chess Match

“Do you want me to do something drastic?” the boy said earlier

A 10-year-old boy jumped to his death from a second-story window at his school last month after his chess opponent took his king without saying “checkmate."

http://time.com/3770502/boy-death-losing-chess-match/

Tragic!

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        This co-pilot thing is getting out of hand.Surprised

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Anyone who jumps out of a window because of a chess game loss isn't going to last much longer anyhow. He was probably mentally unstable and borderline suicidal to start with. It's too bad he didn't get help when it could have done some good.

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DrSpudnik wrote:

Anyone who jumps out of a window because of a chess game loss isn't going to last much longer anyhow. He was probably mentally unstable and borderline suicidal to start with. It's too bad he didn't get help when it could have done some good.

I agree.

 
 
 
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Maybe he didn't think he would be killed.

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My heart just broke reading this!  Poor child.  What a terrible tragedy.  And how awful for the other poor children to have witnessed it.

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DrSpudnik wrote:

Anyone who jumps out of a window because of a chess game loss isn't going to last much longer anyhow. He was probably mentally unstable and borderline suicidal to start with. It's too bad he didn't get help when it could have done some good.

        Quite so.