A prominent young chess grandmaster has died after falling from a balcony while undertaking the extreme sport of parkour, police said.

Yuri Eliseev, 20, died after falling from the 12th-storey of his apartment building in Moscow, according to Russian news reports.

The reports quoted police saying Eliseev died while trying to reach the balcony of a neighbouring apartment. He was described as a practitioner of parkour, which involves climbing, jumping to difficult perches and acrobatic moves.

Eliseev was the world under-16 chess champion in 2012 and was given grandmaster status at just 17.

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