Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who built a global following through his accessible teaching style and blitz chess mastery, died unexpectedly at 29, his family announced Monday. The California-born player,

In 2022, world champion Magnus Carlsen accused another player, Hans Niemann, of cheating. (Niemann has admitted to having cheated in some games when he was younger but denied cheating since.) But in the wake of Naroditsky’s death, Carlsen said that he was taken aback by the ferocity of Kramnik’s attacks and that he privately supported Naroditsky.

A chess superstar, who won a Northern California high school chess championship when he was only in the fifth grade, has died.