A chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport has died at age 29.

A 29-year-old chess grandmaster has died suddenly in what has been described as “a massive loss to the world of chess”.

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.

Chess prodigy Daniel Naroditsky, 29, has passed away, leaving the community in shock. His death follows public accusations of cheating by Vladimir Kramnik, which Naroditsky vehemently denied. Fans are now criticizing Kramnik,

A chess superstar who died at age 29 was engaged in a bitter feud with a rival player who accused him of cheating — and one of his final opponents accused the rival of being responsible for his death.