India, Oct. 24 -- Daniel Naroditsky's sudden death on Sunday (October 19) at the age of 29 came as a shock to chess players and fans. Naroditsky was less than a month short of his 30th birthday. According to reports, he was found unconscious at his residence in North Carolina's Mecklenburg County before being pronounced dead. Charlotte Chess Center's founder Peter Giannatos and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk found him lying unconscious on a couch at his residence.

Many chess players took to social media to reveal their shock and also slammed ex-World Champion Vladimir Kramnik for his feud with Naroditsky. From October 2024, Kramnik repeatedly accused the American GM, for over a year, of cheating in online chess, without substantial evidence. Narod...