No cause of death has been announced. North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating it as a possible overdose or suicide. Much of the chess community is pointing the blame for Naroditsky's passing squarely at Kramnik, who has since been banned for life by Chess.com, due to his persistent bullying, often based on flimsy evidence, of Naroditsky and many others...
In chess, a teacher can explain their moves—something Naroditsky was arguably the best at among YouTube creators—but even if the student doesn't understand, the proof is in the result of the game. (But) In the court of online commenters and murmurs among fellow players, there is no such final arbiter.
"It wasn't just Kramnik," Dina Belenkaya, told Slate. "It was all these other people who Danya was really looking up to, and they were all kind of his heroes, and they all turned against him."
That a former world champion like Kramnik was able to stir up agreement among some social media and message-board posters isn't surprising. More perplexing is that he was able to do so among some of the game's top players, who at least played footsie with the notion that Naroditsky cheated, despite speculative-at-best reasoning.
"Very few top players actually respect what streamers do," Belenkaya, who believes there was motivated reasoning behind some of the suspicions, explained. "People were also jealous that he was popular, that people loved him."
https://slate.com/technology/2025/11/daniel-naroditsky-death-chess-grandmaster-vladimir-kramnik-twitch-stream.html
In chess, a teacher can explain their moves—something Naroditsky was arguably the best at among YouTube creators—but even if the student doesn't understand, the proof is in the result of the game. (But) In the court of online commenters and murmurs among fellow players, there is no such final arbiter.
"It wasn't just Kramnik," Dina Belenkaya, told Slate. "It was all these other people who Danya was really looking up to, and they were all kind of his heroes, and they all turned against him."
That a former world champion like Kramnik was able to stir up agreement among some social media and message-board posters isn't surprising. More perplexing is that he was able to do so among some of the game's top players, who at least played footsie with the notion that Naroditsky cheated, despite speculative-at-best reasoning.
"Very few top players actually respect what streamers do," Belenkaya, who believes there was motivated reasoning behind some of the suspicions, explained. "People were also jealous that he was popular, that people loved him."
https://slate.com/technology/2025/11/daniel-naroditsky-death-chess-grandmaster-vladimir-kramnik-twitch-stream.html
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