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Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky found dead following harassment campaign.
While no cause of death has been announced yet, Naroditsky’s passing is being investigated as a possible suicide. Many have pointed their fingers at disgraced former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who has waged an online bullying campaign against Naroditsky. Defector has a detailed report of Kramnik’s behavior and its effect on Naroditsky:
If you were paying closer attention over the past year, you may have noticed an increasingly haggard Naroditsky, as he was contending with what seemed like extremely spurious cheating allegations leveled at him by Vladimir Kramnik, former world champion and Naroditsky’s boyhood idol. — Defector
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