Peter Giannatos, a close friend of the chess star, tells PEOPLE about his friendship with Naroditsky and the final days before his death “He was a shining star of the chess community in many ways,” ...

The cause of Daniel Naroditsky‘s death has been revealed months after the chess grandmaster died at the age of 29. A child prodigy, Naroditsky became a chess grandmaster – the highest rank a player ...

Hunched over a chessboard at the Western States Open in Reno, 13-year-old Daniel Naroditsky did something that seemed out of character. For a split second, the young prodigy lost his cool. It was ...

Says Peter Giannatos: “Daniel was somebody who cared about what other people thought of him, and that was because of his genuine kindness. He wanted to be a neutral figure, not a controversial figure.

Peter Giannatos, a close friend of the chess star, tells PEOPLE about his friendship with Naroditsky and the final days before his death in October Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster and ...

A year later, on the evening of this past Oct. 19, Gianntos found Naroditsky dead in the living room of his Ballantyne town house. According to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department’s incident ...