Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky found dead after facing relentless cheating allegations from former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, his mother reveals.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is investigating Vladimir Kramnik over his cheating accusations against Daniel Naroditsky, who died recently at the age of 29.View on euronews

Kramnik, 50, insinuated that his US rival was using footage of Naroditsky’s online games to claim that he was looking at a second screen on which he had a sophisticated computer program that could calculate millions of chess moves a second.

The scandal seems a world away from the Bay Area, where Naroditsky’s old friends and mentors remember a bright, soft-spoken young man who loved volunteering to teach others the sport.

Colleagues say the American social media star became despondent after a former Russian champion accused him of using a computer to determine his moves

Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 ...

Vladimir Kramnik — who made baseless cheating accusations against US chess star Daniel Naroditsky — has now painted himself as the victim.