Today's Exactly100: The Death of a Grandmaster - How Chess Has Turned on One of its Own

We still do not know how Daniel Naroditsky died. Police are investigating, and considering suicide. While speculation helps no one, one truth endures: the chess world tolerated a public campaign of accusation and innuendo against a beloved player.

FIDE has referred Vladimir Kramnik’s statements to its Ethics and Disciplinary Commission.

Chess is no longer a world of old men; it is dominated by the young, gifted, and therefore vulnerable. The chess world is grieving. Grief seeks a why; justice a how. While we wait for the doctors to speak, let us do the work that honors the living: build guardrails. /Vincent Pozon