With no due respect shut the f*ck up. You parading around acting as if you are somehow vindicated is so utterly despicable. Keep his name and his family out of your disgusting mouth.
A smear campaign? Danya HIMSELF called you and YOUR smear campaign against him out DIRECTLY on the last stream of his life. If hearing the impact it was having on him over months wasn't enough he stated it explicitly for everyone. The final cause of this tragic event will make 0 difference towards your involvement.
I don't care how long FIDE decides to stall on their investigation or how scared they are of having a neutral 3rd party evaluation of your actions. We all know them, they are documented, and if that wasn't clear enough, Danya told us himself.
You have shown zero respect for his memory and your continued efforts to cover your tracks and shift blame only further the pain you are a part of causing. You didn't make it one single day without commenting and haven't stopped spreading misinformation and lies about his passing since.
@FIDE_chess Do your job. Hold your members accountable and implement real, tangible changes moving forward to protect your players.
In watching the clip below of Danya's last stream and hearing the pain in his voice, how deeply the baseless accusations affected him, I am left so mad at what we all allowed to happen right in front of us.
It's time to stop worrying about the backlash. I am calling on the FIDE EDC to remove Vladimir Kramnik from the FIDE record books, revoke his title, and disqualify his world championship. Chess is one of the most beloved games in the world and should be a place for kindness and inclusion. It should be unilaterally unacceptable to use a platform that Chess has given you to bully, harass, and slander a colleague. What Kramnik has done to David Navara, Hikaru, and Danya, and others can not be tolerated.
It is up to our community and the governing body to set an example that this type of behavior will have consequences. Make it known loud and clear that Chess stands against these hateful acts. If you do them intentionally and maliciously there will be no place for you in our game.
FIDE and it's EDC must establish clear policies moving forward around the safety of it's players both in person and digitally. The events leading up to this tragedy happened in broad daylight over the last 18 months. They could have been stopped. Nothing like this can ever be allowed to happen again.
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