Stupid younger cousin's idea of a prank. Sorry if you guys endured the comment. I'll be back after I kill him.
I hope you used a thesaurus to bash him with. When I was younger I was able to string together a variety of four letter words. The education system isn't even giving young folk a good grasp of profane language these days...
Seriously though. Death is something the living have to handle. As a chess player I wouldn't wish for a better way to exit this life than during my favourite hobby.
Yes! With your boots on!
Perhaps you're right. Let's hope our two late bretheren departed this world in peace. However, both were of advanced age. Perhaps the stress of the game was too much. If so, FIDE needs to implement changes so that history will not repeat itself as it so often does if the world forgets the past.
You get his baked potato.
victory
Hey_Man, it just happened yesterday at the Olympiad in the game CM Kurt Meier - Alain Patience Niyibizi.
So "Patience" eventually won the game on time? 
Would you claim a win ? I think I would. A manager of an English football once said that football was not a matter of life and death, but much more important...No less could be said of chess.
Though in fairness to the just deceased player, I don't think it should affect his grading.
You don´t have to claim a win, make your move, he will loose on time, very simple ...
What if the player only fell into a coma where all bodily functions had ceased, then came out of it with one minute left on his clock and made a move. Meanwhile his opponent had already gone to Supermacs for a burger ?
man i love me some good ol' supermacs in jamaica
According to Fide rule 6.3.7, the game is declared a dead draw.
That was a fake/joke comment (that has been cited all over internet), there is no such rule.
Check out fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf, article 6.3:
> 6.3 Immediately after a flag falls, the requirements of article 6.2 a. must be checked.
There is no 6.3.7!
more importantly do you possess any sympathy and will you attend your opponent's funeral or cremation?
more importantly do you possess any sympathy and will you attend your opponent's funeral or cremation?
Depend on the opening
Is this a check mate puzzle or is it about material?
Then they lose their last game. I'm sure thats gotta be in the rules somewhere.
In the TV serie Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, there is a story about a ghost Chess Player
U win
I think this thread, and the death jokes enclosed, should hereby end out of respect for the two players who passed recently during the Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway.