Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993-2020)

[Wayne Komer]

Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993-2020)

March 5, 2020

From chessnews.ru

Stanislav Bogdanovich and his girlfriend are found dead

Grandmaster Stanislav Bogdanovich and his girlfriend Alexandra Vernigora (also a chess player, rating 1861) were found dead in Moscow.

According to preliminary data, laughing gas was the cause of the couple’s death. Balloons were found next to the bodies, which were filled with nitrous oxide.

27-year-old Bogdanovich hails from Odessa, 18-year-old Wernigora - from Odessa region. Recently, both lived in Moscow.

Stanislav Bogdanovich is a fairly well-known chess player, whom his colleague and fellow countryman Mikhail Golubev even called "perhaps the most talented in the entire history of Odessa." In 2015, he occupied the eighth position on the world blitz ranking list.

♦ Multiple champion of Ukraine in accelerated chess disciplines.
♦ Silver medalist at the UEFA European Under-12 Championship.
♦ Champion of Ukraine among boys under 18 years old.
♦ Champion of Odessa (2010).
♦ Three-time champion of Odessa region, including the winner of two round-robin super-finals of the open championship of the region, tournaments with the grandmaster norm (2018, 2019).

Winner of many international tournaments.

Bogdanovich demonstrated the brightest talent at a very young age. In particular, at the age of 12 he took part in the rapid memorial of Yefim Geller (Odessa-2005) where he drew with Viktor Korchnoi and beat grandmasters Mikhail Golubev and Nikolai Legky.

However, as a mature young man, Bogdanovich, did not always get into news reports due to chess successes. For example, the other day he said that he played for Russia in an online match with Ukraine and explained why he did it. He received a lot of negative feedback, not only from the chess environment. We still do not know for certain whether the grandmaster received real threats.

Last summer, Bogdanovich was robbed during the tournament - 25 thousand dollars were taken out of his Odessa apartment.

http://chess-news.ru/node/26837

[Wayne Komer]

Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993-2020)

March 8, 2020

A partial explanation of the above posting

From the Toronto Star, Feb. 7, 2020

Jack Lakey

Why so many empty nitrous oxide cartridges at Yonge and Sheppard?

Somebody must be slathering a lot of eclairs with whipped cream, judging by all the nitrous oxide cartridges scattered along Yonge St.

Or is someone whipping up ice cream pies along the west side of Yonge, just south of Sheppard Ave.? Maybe that’s why hundreds of empty cartridges are strewn between the sidewalk and a parking lot.

An urban mystery was pointed out to me in a note from Carol Roach, who’s been trying to get the city to clean up the cartridges, also known as “whipped cream chargers,” because they’re used in dispensers to add air to whipping cream.

She sent me copies of emails about the cartridges between her and a staffer for a city councillor. Then came the zinger: “Idiots use these as a cheap way of getting high.”

Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure.

I poked around online and learned that 12-packs of nitrous oxide cartridges can be purchased for peanuts with no questions asked. You don’t have to be a baker to get them.

Nitrous oxide is “laughing gas,” the same stuff that dentists administer to patients to help them relax. But the stuff in the whipped cream cartridges is not a medical-grade gas.

It can’t be sprayed from a cartridge directly into a user’s mouth, so they typically fill a balloon with the gas and then inhale it. It’s known on the street as “huffing.”

But why so many at Yonge and Sheppard? It’s not like people are standing around at that particular spot, filling balloons and laughing it up near one of the busier intersections in the city.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...-sheppard.html