Jessie Gilbert

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Jessie Gilbert, 2006
Association EnglandEngland England
Born January 30, 1987
Croydon , United Kingdom
Died July 26, 2006
Pardubice , Czech Republic
title FIDE Women's Champion (1999)
Best Elo rating 2151 (July 2005)

Jessica Laura Cory "Jessie" Gilbert (born January 30, 1987 in Croydon , England ; † July 26, 2006 in Pardubice , Czech Republic ) was a British chess master .

Life

Gilbert learned to play chess at the age of eight. In 1999, at the age of eleven, she became the youngest player ever to win the Women's Amateur World Championship. Later she won the championship title of Fide , also as the youngest player of all time. A scholarship enabled her to travel to the United States and train with Grand Master Edmar Mednis for a week . In 2001 she won the bronze medal of the European Women's U14 Championship .

Jessie Gilbert took part in the English women's selection at the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Turin and the 2005 European Team Championship in Gothenburg . In the British Four Nations Chess League she played in the 2002/03 season for Perceptron Youth and from 2003 to 2005 for the second team of Wood Green .

Gilbert died on the night of July 26th to 27th, 2006 after falling from the eighth floor of a hotel in Pardubice , where she took part in the annual Czech Open . The reasons for her death remained unclear. It could not be determined whether she died from suicide or a sleepwalking accident.

The Coulsdon Chess Fellowship, of which Gilbert was a member, holds an annual chess tournament in her memory.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessie Gilbert's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Jessie Gilbert's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Case history in the Daily Mail of July 15, 2008 (English)
  4. ↑ Report from the chess website chessbase.com about Jessie Gilbert's death on July 27, 2006 (English)
  5. ↑ BBC: Open verdict on chess star death . Article dated September 27, 2007
  6. ↑ Announcement at fide.com (English). Retrieved September 13, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gilbert, Jessie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilbert, Jessica Laura Cory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chess champion
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Croydon , England
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2006
Place of death Pardubice , Czech Republic