Justice for Naroditsky!
You all will probably remember where you were at the time that you heard about Daniel Naroditsky's passing. One of the saddest days for chess occurred on the 19th of October. Many were saddened after he sadly passed away. The chess world was completely devastated. One of the biggest public figures. Passed. It was saddening. Deeply saddening. And yet, former world chess champion, Vladimir Kramnik made us go through the former drama again. Reigniting it. This is about that. The injustice of it all.
I will keep the blog short, and it shall have no games. I feel like this should just be educational snip of his life. I can't really find much information about him due to all the news about his death. However, I will include the official petition with more than twelve thousand signatures.
it feels so strange to just think about it. RIP.
Contents:
1. Daniel Naroditsky's childhood.
Daniel Naroditsky's childhood.
Daniel Naroditsky was born in November 1995, into a middle-class family in California. His parents, Vladimir, and Lena, were both Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union. Allowing Daniel to understand bits of Russian from a young age. Naroditsky learned chess from his older brother and father at the young age of 6. His career allowed astonishing developments in his life, including meeting people such as Garry Kasparov and even Vladimir Kramnik.
It's really interesting seeing this picture after it all happened. When Kramnik didn't have the sole goal of accusing everyone of cheating, when they clearly aren't.
Naroditsky had clearly had a very inspiring chess career already after winning the under 12 world youth championship in 2007. However, in 2010, Naroditsky, even with his already outstanding career at only 14, he would try to do something that he would be known for in the near future. Teaching people.
Naroditsky would publish his first book: Mastering positional chess. practical lessons from a junior world champion.
It is interesting how it all started. A fourteen-year-old with a passion. Chess.
Naroditsky's career carried him far. A year after publishing the book, at 15, he got his first grandmaster norm. Naroditsky was doing well. He was excelling in school. He would later become a grandmaster at just 18.
He even Graduated from Stanford university in 2014. at just 19. He was on top of the world. He was winning game after game. He would meet Magnus, play legends. He was proving who he was. Daniel would continue teaching. His personality. allowed him to excel.
In 2019, he became a youtuber as well. He posted stuff and became more popular. Naroditsky became different from the other Grandmasters. Currently, he had 80 videos about Theory, more than 200 videos on speedruns, 6 videos about playing Magnus, 18 videos on endgames, 15 about puzzles, and many more videos about other educational topics. It practically takes weeks to watch all the videos that the legend has made.
Eventually, however, with all the fame, comes controversy...
"Some small new piece of statistics, recently noticed, a player had scored 45.5, out of 46 CONSECUTIVE 3 minutes blitz games against approximately 2950 average rating opposition (few different players) which is equivalent to 3600+ performance in those 46 consecutive games. I believe everyone would find this interesting."
This is exactly how former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik accused 5-time United states chess champion, Hikaru Nakamura of cheating. The internet rushed towards Hikaru to defend him. However, Kramnik couldn't win here. the internet was focused. However, Kramnik declared that many other chess players. Nihal Sarin, TheLengendIsBack1, FIDE masters, And many others. He had no evidence for any of them except small, tiny statistics, that didn't matter.
Eventually he found someone that he could pick on. Daniel Naroditsky. Many creators were too fed up with Kramnik to do anything. It made the situation heavier on Naroditsky. Kramnik hit hard. Very hard. People pretended like they were more than what they actually are. Nepomniachtchi, Kramnik, many others, were building it up. Danya would later say that it was one of the most difficult periods of his life. It was like he was being bullied.
Naroditsky felt like his reputation was on the line. He felt like he had to defend himself. He played game with 5 cameras in all of the places he could put it without putting it in a place where it could fall over. That wasn't enough. Actually, defend himself? Oh? Vladimir has left a comment adding another argument. he would do podcasts, proving he was innocent. Oh? Kramnik's never seen that in his life! He couldn't win! Kramnik manipulated him harder than he did to any other person.
Naroditsky felt worse and worse as the cyberbullying went on and on. So, he went on a podcast with Kramnik. THAT STILL WASN'T ENOUGH. He couldn't play properly, if he played too well, all of a sudden, that's suspicious. He had to hold himself back. He had to play with cameras in all directions, and yet, Kramnik didn't stop. He just didn't. He went on for more than a year. It was ridiculous.
And that's what got us to his last stream. He was unwell. He didn't feel too good. Naroditsky still felt like he still had to defend himself. It's sad knowing he's dead now. We all feel horrible.
2 days later, Daniel Naroditsky was found dead. He was unconscious on his couch. The way he died is still unknown, even if it is more than 5 days after his death. Just 29. He was just 29. 
Naroditsky was dead. It feels so weird to say, but he is. His voice is now a thing of the past. As soon as the media could hear about it, they did. I was out of the house when I heard about it. It was about 2:30 PM in Adelaide. I was bored and looked on a laptop. I looked at Wikipedia. And I looked at the front page to find the recent deaths: He was right there. Right on the top. I told my friend about it. he didn't believe it. I didn't either. I was completely shocked. I did some more research. It was true. As soon as I got home, I rushed to the computer. people were talking about it Gothamchess made a video about it. It was true. All true.
And yet, after all of that, Kramnik made tweets about his death. He speculated about possible death scenarios. So many of them. He especially mentioned overdoses. He said horrible things like this post here:
Vladimir Kramnik on X: "https://t.co/oIXCHsx3fC" / X
Deleted the picture, you can see for yourself. DON'T BLAME MEEEEE!!!
This is why I made this blog. This is stupid and he must be held accountable. This is only one post, you can see all on the end of the petition.
This entire blog has been about what you can do. https://c.org/gsvPHnbxV6
This is a petition about what you can do. You can pay $11 USD, or you can let another person know for free. It is in your hands. It's as simple as that. You can change the course of chess history, or you can be torn apart by it. It's your choice.
Of course, this isn't meant to be my best blog, it's meant to be a statement. We shouldn't let him control us. This community can do this. However, we need you. If about 100 new people read this, I know I've might've made a difference. So, send this to who you can and sign.
Sorry if that's too forcing, but it matters to me. It matters to you.
I've probably said too much so there will be one last paragraph. Sorry if it's like a book with like 2 pictures.
Sorry if that big block of writing was too much but we can't have a person do this. Millions have been affected by Danya's passing. We need to do this. https://c.org/gsvPHnbxV6
