A young British chess player taking part in a chess tournament in the
Czech Republic has died after a fall from her hotel room, the event's
organisers said on Thursday. Jessie Gilbert, 19, fell from the eighth
floor of her hotel in the town of Pardubice on Wednesday. A police
spokeswoman said most likely nobody else was involved in the fall, but
police are waiting for the results of the autopsy. Some 4,000 players
of all categories from 50 countries are taking part in the Pardubice
event, the biggest in the world, according to its organisers.