{A major international chess tournament in northern Norway ended on a grim note, with one player dying in the middle of a game and another found dead in a hotel room, organizers said Friday.}<\/p>\n
A 67-year-old member of the Seychelles team collapsed and died during the final round Thursday of the two-week Chess Olympiad in Tromsoe, tournament spokesman Jarle Heitmann said.<\/p>\n
Another player, from Uzbekistan, was found dead in a hotel room later Thursday, Heitmann said.<\/p>\n
He said both died of natural causes. Tromsoe police said on Twitter there was “no crime” suspected in either case.<\/p>\n
Heitmann said there was a brief moment of panic as emergency workers rushed to attend to the Seychelles player, as some participants apparently mistook their defibrillator for a gun and fled toward the exits.<\/p>\n
The Seychelles News Agency identified the player as Kurt Meier, a Swiss-born member of the small island nation’s chess team. It said he died during a game against Rwanda.<\/p>\n
Officials for the Seychelles team didn’t immediately return emails and phone calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n
The Rwanda team expressed its condolences to Meier’s family on Twitter and so did team member Alain Patience, who said he had been playing Meier when he collapsed.<\/p>\n
China won the men’s title and Russia won the women’s title in the biennial chess tournament in which about 3,000 people participated.<\/p>\n
Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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