Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies
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A chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport has died at age 29.
The scandal seems a world away from the Bay Area, where Naroditsky’s old friends and mentors remember a bright, soft-spoken young man who loved volunteering to teach others the sport.
Kramnik, 50, insinuated that his US rival was using footage of Naroditsky’s online games to claim that he was looking at a second screen on which he had a sophisticated computer program that could calculate millions of chess moves a second.
A chess superstar who died at age 29 was engaged in a bitter feud with a rival player who accused him of cheating — and one of his final opponents accused the rival of being responsible for his death.