This Bay Area prodigy helped pioneer the digital world of chess. It came to torment him

The 29-year-old chess grandmaster, who died this month, brought the game into a new streaming era, with sometimes toxic ...
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Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky is remembered as a leader in the game's online surge

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29. He leaves behind a legacy as a standard-bearer in the world of competitive chess that flourished during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Did Cheating Accusations Have Anything to Do With the Death of a Chess Grandmaster?

Daniel Naroditsky, a top American player with an online following, was found dead in Charlotte, N.C., after talking about ...

World Chess Federation investigating Russian grandmaster who accused Daniel Naroditsky of cheating

The World Chess Federation said it was investigating claims Vladimir Kramnik made "before and after the tragic death" of ...

Can world champion Gukesh add a World Cup title to his resume?

First of all, Gukesh might be the world champion, but he's only 19. Inconsistencies in form are natural at that age for any ...

Checkmate! How The Chess Club Became The New Nightclub

With fans including PinkPantheress and Eberechi Eze, and buzzy new clubs springing up in east London and Peckham, the ...

The only actor who out-hustled Stanley Kubrick at chess: “I have so little respect for your game”

Although he eventually became the director of masterpieces like 'The Shining', Stanley Kubrick started out as a chess hustler and was once out-hustled himself.

Daniel Naroditsky: Rival faces disciplinary action for 'bullying' chess grandmaster before his death

Accusations of cheating had led to an ongoing feud between the two world-class players and claims of bullying.
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The Lions may not see the exotic blitzes they're used to seeing from Brian Flores and the Vikings, here's why

The Detroit Lions play their third NFC North divisional matchup on Sunday when they take on the Minnesota Vikings. These ...

Inside Danny Wolf’s mental chess match on the court: ‘He’s like my laptop’

Wolf’s basketball journey, from Yale to Michigan to Brooklyn, has been a running dialogue between thought and instinct, ...

Critic of chess grandmaster found dead was caught up in a cheating scandal of his own

Vladimir Kramnik, the Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky — the U.S. grandmaster who was ...