MOSCOW, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Russian chess grandmaster Yuri Yeliseyev, 20, died after falling from a 12th floor balcony of a Moscow apartment building, police said.
The chess prodigy, a world junior chess champion in 2012 and proclaimed grandmaster, the chess world's highest rank, was attempting to reach another balcony when he slipped Saturday, colleague Daniil Dubov said. He was a practitioner of parkour, a game of urban physical challenge involving leaping across roofs and fences, and climbing walls and other man-made obstacles.