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Jessica Laura Cory Gilbert known as "Jessie" Gilbert (30 January 1987 – 26 July 2006) was a British chess player. ==Biography== Jessica was the daughter of Angela and Ian Gilbert and was raised in Woldingham, Surrey. She attended Croydon High School. Her father was a career manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Gilbert's parents had separated in 2003, and Jessica was living in Reigate with her mother and siblings, while her father had remarried to a lawyer named Sally, and lived in Hackney, east London. Jessica Gilbert had represented England in every major chess competition from the age of 12, and came to prominence when she won the Women’s World Amateur Chess Championship in 1999. She was mentioned in a parliamentary debate by the then sports minister, Tony Banks, who said: "We are extremely proud of what Jessie Gilbert has achieved for chess and for this country."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990315/debtext/90315-42.htm )〕 She also gained the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title from the game's governing body, FIDE. In recognition of her achievement, the Brain Trust charity and Swedish health care company Bure provided Gilbert with a bursary of £4000 so that she could travel to America to study with grandmaster Edmar Mednis in New York. Gilbert had won a place at the University of Oxford to study medicine from September 2005, but decided to take a gap year in order to spend time focused solely on chess. In the space of only a few months in early 2006, Gilbert achieved three "norms" in major chess tournaments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jessie Gilbert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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