The Charlotte Chess Center announced the passing of 29-year-old chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky through a social media post Monday morning.
Alan Kirshner, a youth chess tournament organizer and political science professor, had for years been evasive when asked if he’d ever seen a chess “prodigy.”
That changed when he first saw San Mateo’s Daniel Naroditsky, then a first-grader, in action... [3943 chars]