Just to add my 2 cents. I think and in my opinion Kramnik's response to Daniel's passing was cold and heartless. I didn't want to say anything in the beginning because it is not my place and Vlad has always been great towards me but things have gotten too far. In my personal view what was done and happened to Naroditsky was just shockingly and disturbingly evil and horrific. You wouldn't wish that to happen to your worst enemy. Let's say for a moment that Danya cheated (which I never believed). Would it be worth it to ruin a beautiful young life over a game? What was his soul worth?
@VBkramnik , are you done? Maybe its not too late to just stop and fix/make things better. You are a living legend to this game. The chess world is not your enemy.
Your harassment directly contributed to the deteriorating mental health of a 29 year old man who spent his childhood looking up to you.
Kramnik, nobody cares about your accolades in chess if you're a fucking loser of a human being. Don't bother doing better, it's too late.
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.
Devastated and heartbroken 💔. Danya was one of the kindest, thoughtful, and incredible people I ever met and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with and learn from him over the years. He truly made the world a better place and will be missed more than words can express. My prayers are with the Naroditsky family. His absence will be irreplaceable in the chess community😭😭
Jeremy Clarkson on Farage. Unexpectedly devastating.
“Nigel Farage rarely talks about the economy and when he does, his numbers don’t add up. He says he wants to cut taxes and increase spending by £150bn. Huh? But before anyone can question his logic, he scuttles back to his safe space and starts raging about small boats.”
Joe Rogan is too 🐔 to have me on his show and expose his listeners to the truth, so I’ll put it here.
California is:
- 4th largest economy in the world
- #1 in manufacturing
- #1 in farming
- #1 in new business starts.
- #1 for tech and VC investments
- #1 for Fortune 500 companies
- #1 public higher education
I could continue… invite me on any time, @joerogan :)
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
the fact Hitler literally explains and wrote in his book that he called the party socialist and used Red as the colour to confuse people to come to meetings and not realise it was a far Right party, but 80 years later, you’re stupid enough to fall for it, really is something