"Naroditsky became a grandmaster, the highest title in chess aside from World Chess Champion, at the age of 18. In 2007, as a sixth-grader from Foster City, he won the under-12 world championship and spent his teenage years writing chess strategy books. Naroditsky was the son of Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Ukraine and Azerbaijan. He was born and raised in San Mateo County and was described by his parents as a very serious kid with an impressive attention span and memory."
"After attending Crystal Springs Uplands School, in Hillsborough, he went on to study history at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 2019. After college, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he coached the area's top junior chess players. He was consistently ranked in the top 200 worldwide for traditional chess and also excelled at a fast-paced style called blitz chess, maintaining a top 25 ranking throughout his adult career."
Daniel Naroditsky was a chess grandmaster and former child prodigy from the Bay Area who died at age 29. He earned the grandmaster title at 18 and won the under-12 world championship in 2007. He wrote chess strategy books during his teens and maintained a top 200 world ranking in classical chess and a top-25 ranking in blitz. He won the U.S. National Blitz Championship in August. He coached junior players at the Charlotte Chess Center and moved to Charlotte after earning a history degree from Stanford in 2019. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Azerbaijan. His family described him as passionate and inspirational; the cause of death was not immediately known.
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