A major international chess tournament has had two players that have had a sudden death. Kurt Meier from Switzerland suffered a heart attack while a competitor from the Uzbekistan team was found dead in his hotel room. Those two deaths have been caused by natural causes. The tournament had 1,800 players from 174 countries from all over the world. China won the men’s title and Russia won the women’s title. An Australian chess champion was forced to retire from the sport in 2007 because he had a lot of stress and and it could cause him health problems.
When I saw this on Kiwi Kids News I was shocked, first I thought how can people die from this kind of sport but when I read it it was clear to me that it was caused by stress playing the game and them being too focused.
The Warriors were knocked out by the Roosters from the top eight play-off. On the NRL leaderboard the Roosters are coming third, but the Warriors have dropped. The Gold Coast and Penrith are the only teams left to face the Warriors.
The NZRU has set a new rule that there will be no more fireworks at the All Blacks games. The fireworks at the Bledisloe Cup injured 3 people just after the Haka. They were struck by debris. 
The All Blacks have been undefeated in 12 straight Bledisloe Cup series. Richie McCaw and Rob Simmons were sin-binned. At halftime the score was 23-6. The New Zealand team is still undefeated since 2009. 
The New Zealand Rugby Union team has announced that they will compete in a match in Samoa next year. The New Zealand rugby team will play in Apia next year in July. The head of the NZRU Steve Tew says that the New Zealand team has never played a test match in the Pacific Islands. He also says that there are a few problems to work through for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. 
