Daniel Naroditsky: Chess grandmaster dies unexpectedly aged 29
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- Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, died unexpectedly at the age of 29.
- He was a former world youth champion and one of America's most recognizable chess figures.
- Naroditsky wrote a book on chess at 14 and later educated followers via Twitch and YouTube livestreams.
- He served as head coach at the Charlotte Chess Centre in North Carolina.
- The chess community, including grandmasters like Hikaru Nakamura and Oleksandr Bortnyk, expressed deep sorrow over his death.
- Naroditsky was consistently ranked in the top 200 worldwide for traditional chess and excelled in blitz chess.
- The cause of his death has not been publicly disclosed.