El Paso Institute of Chess

EPIC is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation organized and operated for promoting the game of chess as an educational tool.

[Attacking Chess @attackingchess]

🕊️ “There was nothing more important to Daniel than his dignity and his name as a chess player.”

Daniel Naroditsky’s mother breaks her silence after her son’s death at 29, opening up about the pain caused by months of cheating accusations and the fight for his reputation. ♟️

https://t.co/F8ED00tq2t

[William Poulos @W_Poulos]

I’m not usually affected by the deaths of people I don’t know personally, but this one hurts.

Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away, aged 29.

I never met him, but I’ve spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours watching his videos. I got back into chess during the Covid lockdowns, and I wouldn’t have fallen in love with the game without his generous, witty, and instructive lessons.

A history graduate from Stanford, Naroditsky was the most articulate and lucid commentator and teacher in chess. He was rare: a Twitch streamer and YouTube creator without a hint of ego. Everything he did was in the service of the game he loved.

He knew how to instruct weaker players like me. Commonly in his videos he’d say “you might be tempted to play…” followed by the exact terrible move I would have played, and then he’d explain why it was so bad.

I hear his voice and his idioms in my head when I play: is the opponent’s threat genuine or only a “paper tiger”? Can you set up a defence so that the opponent’s attack is “biting on granite”? Can you see a follow-up to your “sexy move” or have you succumbed to “onemove-itis?”

I’ll never be able to play as well as he did, but his videos always gave the impression that, with enough patience and effort, one day I might be able to.

It might be strange to have a teacher younger than you, but it’s even stranger to find out that he’s gone.

Remember Philip Larkin’s lines at the end of his poem “The Mower”:

"we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time."

Memory eternal

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@msochess @julesgambit And writing them during a game can be a distraction to the opponent, as Akobian said it was. So leaves out the fact that he was warned by the arbiter to stop. In the post-game interview, there was a bit more drama when he saltily suggested that Akobian was afraid to play him.

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@chesscom @Vilhaze

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@CaracasChron C

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@anishgiri We do casual chess at a climbing gym in El Paso, Texas.

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@fins0905 Thanks, John! It wasn't until a few months before I started law school in 2005 that I finally started playing again and actually studying with chess books. Better late than never.

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@fins0905 Unfortunately, I had the opposite experience. At 7 or 8 yrs old, my dad showed me Scholar's Mate, which I employed mercilessly against my 5/6 yr old brother. He was my only available opponent and I soon lost interest in the simplicity of my victories and, sadly, the game.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Known as both the Internet’s Chess Teacher and GothamChess, Levy Rozman, a 28-year-old New Yorker and first-generation immigrant, turned his late-night hobby with friends into a career as one of the most influential figures in the game. https://t.co/VodNqhWSLK

[chess24 @chess24com]

World no. 1 @MagnusCarlsen wins on demand against Vincent Keymer to force tiebreaks tomorrow!

#FIDEWorldCup

[El Paso Institute of Chess @EPIC_CHESS]

@natesolon 1. Qe2 threatens both 2. d3 and 2. Nxe4. If 1. ...Qe7 2. Nd5 dislodges the Black queen and then White will have 3. d3 again.

[Jesse Kraai @JesseKraai]

You're welcome. ♟️♟️♟️ https://t.co/q2LpuNrjJY

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

Chess is making a comeback as one of the hottest activities sweeping high schools and the internet.

@jacobsoboroff shares a look inside the soaring popularity of chess ♟️

[Peter Heine Nielsen @PHChess]

My match predictions:
Nepomniachtchi a 57-43 % favourite
I consider Ding a slightly better chess player.
Nepomniachtchi will play 1 e4, I expect Ding to reply with the Marshall. A thread with my thoughts on the match:🧵

[Hans Niemann @HansMokeNiemann]

My lawsuit speaks for itself https://t.co/rOfUxiNYCH

[Continental Chess @AmericanChess]

North American Open at Ballys Las Vegas, Dec 26-30, 26-29 or 27-29. $125,000 guaranteed prizes, GM & IM norms possible. https://t.co/bYNmDZkyyN

[Chess.com @chesscom]

Today we released our official report on Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, and cheating in chess. Read it here: https://t.co/HeDTReeAPe

[Andrew Tang @penguingm1]

btw it is possible to give hans the benefit of the doubt OTB while not enough evidence is presented.. while understanding that magnus is not an idiot, or a sore loser like many armchair psychologists would like you to believe

[Magnus Carlsen @MagnusCarlsen]

My statement regarding the last few weeks.