Age 20, another very promising player gone far far too early
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GM Ivan Bukavshin
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GM Ivan Bukavshin
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Re: GM Ivan Bukavshin
Stroke reportedly, that has to be rare at his age?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Re: GM Ivan Bukavshin
Strokes are mercifully rare at that age, but happen more than you might think. Even young children have had them.
https://www.stroke.org.uk/sites/default ... 0116_0.pdf
has info - page 10 mentions that stroke affects 13 per 100000 children in UK.
And worldwide, 1 in 4000 babies has a stroke at birth...
https://www.stroke.org.uk/sites/default ... 0116_0.pdf
has info - page 10 mentions that stroke affects 13 per 100000 children in UK.
And worldwide, 1 in 4000 babies has a stroke at birth...
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Re: GM Ivan Bukavshin
Not sure if any English-language chess news sources have picked up on this, but the report into the death of Ivan Bukavshin was reported on in the Russian chess press (back in August 2016) and apparently it wasn't a stroke:
http://chess-news.ru/node/21958
A translation appears to indicate that the verdict was an overdose (it is not clear whether this was accidental or not) with some drug called No-Spa (the anti-spasmodic drotaverine). The Wikipedia article even mentions Bukavshin's death: Drotaverine.
This death is also mentioned here and here.
http://chess-news.ru/node/21958
A translation appears to indicate that the verdict was an overdose (it is not clear whether this was accidental or not) with some drug called No-Spa (the anti-spasmodic drotaverine). The Wikipedia article even mentions Bukavshin's death: Drotaverine.
This death is also mentioned here and here.
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Re: GM Ivan Bukavshin
17 mg/kg in body weight would be roughly 8 - 10 times the normal daily dose. Drotaverine has been around a while.
Whether accidental or not, it's a tragically early death.
Whether accidental or not, it's a tragically early death.