Urii Eliseev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian chess grandmaster
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Urii Eliseev
- Urii Mikhailovich Eliseev (Russian: ???? ?????????? ???????; August 29, 1996 – November 26, 2016) was a Russian chess player.
- He won the Under-16 section of World Youth Chess Championship in 2012 and was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2013 at the age of 17.
- He won the Moscow Chess Championship in 2015 and the Moscow Open in 2016.
- He was ranked 212th in the world and 42nd in Russia, with an Elo rating of 2614.Eliseev died in November 2016 at the age of 20 after falling from a balcony on the 12th floor of a Moscow apartment block.
- His death was reported by his friend and fellow Grandmaster Daniil Dubov, who said that Eliseev had been trying to climb from a window to the balcony but slipped.
- Eliseev's flatmate told Russian TV that the parkour enthusiast "loved extreme things" and had climbed between the window and the balcony before.
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