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According to a post on Facebook, he died on June 12, 2016. Krakatoa (talk) 18:58, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

His death is also mentioned on the chesstour.com home page. I'll update the article using chesstour.com as the source, but will replace the citation with an obituary once one is available online. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 19:13, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]