Only twenty-nine years old, Naroditsky became a grandmaster (the highest ranking in chess other than world champion) at seventeen, played chess and did incredibly well at a young age.
From what little from what I can tell it looks like, his boyhood idol, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, basically called him and basically everyone a cheater and directed a smear campaign that drove him to this death, and now Kramnik is inserting himself into the investigation and calling Naroditsky an "addict" and himself a "victim" of it all. Kramnik sounds like a real piece of shit that a lot of other chess players and fans around the sport utterly hate because he's basically being a sore old loser and calling everyone cheaters when he loses, while Naroditsky is beloved by a lot of chess people, not just for his skills, not just because he brought chess into the wider public eye and online as a player and teacher, but because the guy was apparently very nice to his fellow competitors, warm to his fans, and a good person in real life, and his integrity was beyond reproach.
May he rest in peace and paradise.
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From what little from what I can tell it looks like, his boyhood idol, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, basically called him and basically everyone a cheater and directed a smear campaign that drove him to this death, and now Kramnik is inserting himself into the investigation and calling Naroditsky an "addict" and himself a "victim" of it all. Kramnik sounds like a real piece of shit that a lot of other chess players and fans around the sport utterly hate because he's basically being a sore old loser and calling everyone cheaters when he loses, while Naroditsky is beloved by a lot of chess people, not just for his skills, not just because he brought chess into the wider public eye and online as a player and teacher, but because the guy was apparently very nice to his fellow competitors, warm to his fans, and a good person in real life, and his integrity was beyond reproach.
May he rest in peace and paradise.
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