World No.1 Magnus Carlsen was the latest to react at the sudden death of Daniel Naroditsky on Monday night with the 5-time World Champion saying that the way Vladimir Kramnik went after the 29-year-old with his allegations of cheating was ‘horrible.
After Naroditsky’s news of passing came to light, there has been growing speculation around the role that accusations of cheating from former world champion Kramnik played in the tragedy. Kramnik had repeatedly accused Naroditsky of cheating in online chess, something that the latter admitted late last year had affected him.
“With the whole Kramnik situation not only with Naroditsky, from the beginning I would say. Obviously I have had problems with him in the past, not like big problems but generally, for all his greatness, generally, he tho