Igor Kurnosov (Russian: Игорь Курносов; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2008 he won the Arctic Chess Challenge. He was also the winner of 2008/9 Hastings Masters tournament.On the August 2013 FIDE rating list Kurnosov ranked 84th in the world with a 2662 rating.Kurnosov was hit and killed by a car on 8 August 2013 at 2:45 am in his home town Chelyabinsk aged 28.
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