Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away

Heartbreaking.

Danya was an incredible, positive influence, not only on Chess, but on the world around him.

He brought so much joy to so many people, from his speedruns to his commentary to his chess itself.

I cannot believe he's gone.

He will be sorely missed.

Danya you are one of my chess heroes. I hope to one day be able to bring the gift of chess to people like you did.

To all of his family that might read this, I'm so sorry.

To all of his friends that will be reading this maybe (Gotham, Dana, Hikaru and so on) I'm so sorry.

Chess has lost an icon.

Shocking. Had a shiver down my spine reading this.

I've been watching Danya ever since his days at Stanford streaming from his dorm and classrooms. Very bright, had every door open back then.

He always had some minor mental health issues (e.g. destroying objects, raging really hard) and was staying up super late every night, but nothing unusual for other gamers too, to be fair. People found his antics funny, his chat was memeing mostly.

Really hard to tell what happened. Something must've derailed really badly. Probably something personal, not even connected to chess or his career.