Overview
- His family and the Charlotte Chess Center announced the unexpected death on Monday, noting he died on Sunday.
- No cause of death has been released, and the family has asked for privacy.
- FIDE offered condolences, and leading figures such as Hikaru Nakamura and Chess.com’s Denny Rensch voiced grief.
- Naroditsky became a grandmaster at 18 and placed ninth at last year’s World Blitz Championship.
- He drew large online followings—about 340,000 on Twitch and roughly 480,000 on YouTube—and published his first instructional book at 14.