Young Ukraine chess couple 'killed by laughing gas'

A 27-year-old Ukrainian chess champion and his girlfriend, 18, have been found dead in their Moscow flat, poisoned by laughing gas.

Media reports state Stanislav Bogdanovich and Alexandra Vernigora - likewise a top chess player - were found with inflatables containing the gas, nitrous oxide. The gas is breathed in utilising an inflatable.

Russian specialists revealed the passings, without naming the pair, and said there were no indications of treachery.

Bogdanovich was a speed chess champion.

Vernigora was additionally an expert chess player and was learning at Moscow State University.

The Ukrainian games site sport.ua says Bogdanovich was a grandmaster from Odesa who won the Ukrainian Under-18 title and different chess grants at universal competitions.

Russian chess site chess-news.ru says that in 2015 he was evaluated eighth on the planet for speed (rush) chess.

Reports state Bogdanovich drew a lot of analysis as of late for speaking to Russia in a web chess coordinate against Ukraine, which he won.

Sport.ua cites a Facebook post from him (in Russian) about that, wherein he contended that playing for Russia was useful for business, that he was living as a visitor in Russia and being dealt with well, and this was his little commitment to consummation the Russia-Ukraine strife.

Nitrous oxide was first utilised as a sedative in 1844, yet is currently being used as a recreational medication and has been connected to many passings. It can likewise cause breathing troubles, perilously expanded pulse and consumes.