Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi has joined a chorus of chess players in blaming former world champion Vladimir Kramnik for putting Daniel Naroditsky under mental stress.

Naroditsky, a New York Times columnist and educator, died last Monday. He became a Grandmaster at 18 and was hailed as a chess prodigy. His passing sparked a buzz online amid a growing refrain that the 29-year-old Naroditsky was under severe stress after allegations of cheating were levelled against him by Kramnik.

Erigaisi demanded that the international chess federation, which goes by the acronym FIDE, ‘prevent Kramnik from playing with mental health of others.’

“So heartbreaking,” Erigaisi wrote on X. “Isn’t this clip from Danya’s last stream more than good enough to understand how much his mental health was affe

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