US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was incoherent, rambling, and half asleep in a concerning final video before he died, as he addressed the baseless cheating accusations against him.
The 29-year-old chess superstar from Charlotte, NC, looked gaunt and distracted as he recorded himself playing chess in a livestream shared with subscribers just days before his sudden death was announced.
Naroditsky — whose death was announced Monday in a joint statement by his chess club and family — had been feuding with Russian former chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who had accused the American of cheating.
Naroditsky strenuously denied the accusations.
“Ever since the Kramnik stuff, I feel like if I start doing well, people assume the worst of intentions,” Naroditsky griped in his final stream made in the early hours of Oct. 17.
At another point, he appeared to suggest that the stream would be his final one, after reading out a comment from a subscriber addressing the cheating allegations.
“This will not be the last time he faces criticism or trolling,” Naroditsky read, before answering the comment, “Oh, it actually will be.”
So far, no cause of death has been announced by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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