Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes
Date: 22:24:44 12/01/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 01:09:42, Luis Smith wrote: >There is supposed to be an article about it there, but I'm not finding it I just read this: Peter Leko was killed in a car accident today in Budapest. It has been reported that Leko died in a car crash while analyzing a game he had played against Shirov on a pocket set. Shirov is in Spain now and was not in the accident. Leko, 23, recently won a qualification tournament and was scheduled to play a match for the World Chess Championship. He was once the world's youngest grandmaster and has consistently been rated in the top ten players in the world. Sam Sloan Finegold(IM)(43): "She [Susan Polgar] got a phone call at her home at 10 PM to inform her this. She is double checking with other sources now. But is is early in the morning in Budapest so it is hard to get news. People are still sleeping. I will let you know more as soon as I know from her." Passed along at ICC about 2355 server time. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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