Baku – APA-Sport. Member of Azerbaijan’s national chess team Vugar Gashimov has died.
According to Apasport.az website, the Grandmaster, who has been receiving treatment for a long time, has died this night at Heidelberg clinic, Germany.
Gashimov was expected to join the tournaments from this year. However, the chess player died unexpectedly from brain tumor.
Vugar Gashimov was born on July 24, 1986 in Baku. He is three times Azerbaijani national chess champion. He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Team Chess Championship in Novi Sad in 2009 and became winner of Reggio Emilia chess tournament in 2011.
Source: http://en.apa.az/news/205488
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
This is a great tragedy.
Condolences to friends and family.
RIP GM Vugar Gashimov.
Sad news
Gone too soon.
My condolences to his family and the Azeri chess community.
Vugar Gashimov was one of the best chess players in the world, and a human dear to others. It is a great tragedy to die so young. My heart goes out to his family. (My twin died at a young age from a brain tumor, too.)
Lucymarie
Quite unexpected!
RIP Vugar.
Amar
🙁
An amazing player gone way too soon.
In 15 years never had a ct scan? Just called his symptoms epilepsy.
Americans should consider this a warning of nationalizing health care.