Daniel Naroditsky

Born in San Mateo, California,{{cite news |last1=Murtagh |first1=Heather |title=Local youth wins chess championship |url=https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/local-youth-wins-chess-championship/article_2f1e5805-c7c2-5841-9489-57e2fde2f489.html |access-date=16 June 2022 |work=San Mateo Daily Journal |date=6 December 2017}} Naroditsky learned chess at age six from his father, Vladimir. He was soon taking serious chess lessons. Naroditsky won the 2007 Northern California K–12 Chess Championship, the youngest player ever to do so.

In 2007, Naroditsky won the Under 12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship with 9½/11, tying with Illya Nyzhnyk but winning the gold medal on tiebreaks.{{Cite web|url=https://chess-results.com/tnr8913.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30|title=Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 2007 (12)|website=chess-results.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/|title=World Youth Chess Championships 2007 - Home|date=November 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118194041/http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/ |archive-date=November 18, 2017 }}

At the 2010 U.S. Open Chess Championship, Naroditsky scored 7½/9 to share second place with Alexander Shabalov, Varuzhan Akobian, and Julio Sadorra, but behind Alejandro Ramírez. This qualified him for the 2011 U.S. Championship.

Naroditsky competed in the 2011, 2012, and 2013 U.S. Junior Championships, winning clear first place in 2013 with 6.5/9, ahead of Samuel Sevian and Luke Harmon-Vellotti.{{cite web | url=https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201306238562 | title=US Chess MSA - Cross Table for 2013 U.S. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP (Event 201306238562) }} This victory qualified him for the 2014 U.S. Championship.

Naroditsky earned his first grandmaster norm at the Benasque Open in July 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://chess-results.com/tnr52562.aspx?lan=2&art=9&fed=USA&turdet=no&flag=30&snr=34|title=Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - XXXI OPEN INT. "VILLA DE BENASQUE"|website=chess-results.com}} He earned his second grandmaster norm at the 2013 Philadelphia Open by tying for first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez.{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Open 2013 Standings – Open Section |url=http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/2013/03/philadelphia-open-2013-standings-open-section/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505005416/http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/2013/03/philadelphia-open-2013-standings-open-section/ |archive-date=May 5, 2013 |publisher=CCA Chess Tournaments |df=mdy}} He earned his final grandmaster norm at the 2013 Benasque Open.{{Cite web|url=https://chess-results.com/tnr105489.aspx?lan=2&art=9&fed=USA&turdet=YES&flag=30&snr=33|title=Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - XXXIII OPEN INTERNACIONAL "VILLA DE BENASQUE" (77340)|website=chess-results.com}} Naroditsky was officially awarded the grandmaster title at the end of 2013 at age 18.

In 2014, Naroditsky was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship.{{cite web |title=2014 Samford Fellow: GM Daniel Naroditsky |url=http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12579/757 |access-date=27 January 2015 |website=US Chess |publisher=John Donaldson}}

Later that year, he tied for fifth place in the Millionaire Chess Open in Las Vegas.{{cite web |title=2014 Millionaire Chess Open - Open Section November 2014 United States of America |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=99087&t= |access-date=28 November 2014 |publisher=FIDE}}

In 2015, Naroditsky represented the United States at the World Team Chess Championship, where he scored 4.0/7, defeating Dmitry Jakovenko and Evgeny Postny, but losing to Hrant Melkumyan, earning a performance rating of 2701.

Naroditsky played in the 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2021 U.S. Chess Championships. In the 2021 U.S. Championship, he defeated Fabiano Caruana who was rated 2800 FIDE and ranked #2 in the World.{{cite web | url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2088198 | title=Fabiano Caruana vs Daniel Naroditsky (2021) }}

In 2019, Naroditsky tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.

He plays on Chess.com under the handle DanielNaroditsky,{{cite web | url=https://www.chess.com/member/danielnaroditsky | title=GM Daniel Naroditsky (DanielNaroditsky) - Chess Profile }} and on Lichess.org under the handle RebeccaHarris.{{cite web |title=Magnus Carlsen wins third consecutive Lichess Titled Arena |url=https://lichess.org/blog/WpmA1SwAACwAxGsW/magnus-carlsen-wins-third-consecutive-lichess-titled-arena |website=Lichess |access-date=30 July 2021 |date=2 March 2018}} He frequently ranks at the top of both websites' leaderboards in Blitz and Bullet. His peak bullet rating on Chess.com is 3553, and peak bullet rating on lichess is 3326.{{cite web | url=https://www.chess.com/stats/live/bullet/danielnaroditsky/0 | title=DanielNaroditsky Blitz Chess Stats and Rating }}{{Cite web|url=https://lichess.org/@/RebeccaHarris/perf/bullet|title=RebeccaHarris - Bullet stats • lichess.org|website=lichess.org}}

By FIDE ratings, Naroditsky is consistently ranked in the top 150 in the World and top 15 in the U.S. in Classical, top 75 in Rapid, and top 25 in Blitz.

In August 2024, Naroditsky crossed 2700 FIDE Blitz rating for the first time.

In December 2024, Naroditsky tied for first place in the Swiss portion of the 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship with a score of 9.5/13 and performance rating of 2749, finishing 9th place on tiebreaks and failing to advance to the knockout stage.https://chess-results.com/tnr1074692.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=13&flag=30 His FIDE blitz rating increased to a career peak of 2720, ranking #18 in the World, and #5 in the US.https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml

In 2024, Naroditsky was accused by former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik of cheating in online chess. Naroditsky rejected the allegations, referring to Kramnik as "worse than dirt", although he also indicated that he felt other top players had similar suspicions about him. He was defended by grandmaster and fellow content creator Hikaru Nakamura.{{cite web |title='Worse than dirt': Daniel Naroditsky hits back at Vladimir Kramnik over 'cheating' allegation |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/worse-than-dirt-daniel-naroditsky-hits-back-at-vladimir-kramnik-over-cheating-allegation/articleshow/116826146.cms |website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com |publisher=Times of India |access-date=7 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Vladimir Kramnik is worse than dirt: Daniel Naroditsky |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/vladimir-kramnik-is-worse-than-dirt-daniel-naroditsky-9752530/ |website=indianexpress.com |publisher=The Indian Express |access-date=7 March 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250307115428/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/vladimir-kramnik-is-worse-than-dirt-daniel-naroditsky-9752530/ |archive-date=7 March 2025}}

Naroditsky published the books Mastering Positional Chess in 2010, and Mastering Complex Endgames in 2012.

He wrote The Practical Endgame, a column in Chess Life Magazine,{{cite web |title=US Chess Celebrates Its Award-Winning Journalists |url=https://new.uschess.org/news/us-chess-celebrates-award-winning-journalists |website=United States Chess Federation |access-date=11 September 2021 |date=11 August 2017}} from 2014 to 2020.

In 2022, Naroditsky wrote a series of 19 columns featuring chess puzzles based on historical games for The New York Times.{{Cite news |title=Chess Puzzles |url=https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/chess-puzzles |work=The New York Times}}

Since 2020, he has been the Grandmaster-in-Residence of the Charlotte Chess Center,{{Cite web |title=DANIEL NARODITSKY |url=https://www.charlottechesscenter.org/staff/daniel-naroditsky |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=CCC |language=en}}.

Naroditsky is an active content creator on YouTube and Twitch, where he has over 460,000 subscribers and 335,000 followers, respectively.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/@DanielNaroditskyGM|title=Daniel Naroditsky|website=YouTube}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.twitch.tv/GMNaroditsky|title=GMNaroditsky - Twitch|via=www.twitch.tv}}

Naroditsky's parents are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. His father, Vladimir, immigrated from Ukraine, while his mother Lena came from Azerbaijan.{{Cite news|last=Pine|first=Dan|date=7 April 2006|title=10-year-old-chess-champ-is-king-of-the-board|url=https://www.jweekly.com/2006/04/07/10-year-old-chess-champ-is-king-of-the-board/|url-status=live|newspaper=J|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912094457/https://www.jweekly.com/2006/04/07/10-year-old-chess-champ-is-king-of-the-board/ |archive-date=September 12, 2021 }} Naroditsky attended high school at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California.{{Cite web |last=Weil |first=Elizabeth |date=November 19, 2022 |title=Wait, But Weren't His Parents Law Professors? The Stanford genius bubble that birthed SBF |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/sbf-parents-stanford-genius-bubble.html |work=New York Magazine}} He attended Stanford University until 2019, studying history.https://www.charlottechesscenter.org/staff Charlotte Chess Center Staff Page

He has resided in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2020.{{Cite news |last=Amlen |first=Deb |date=June 12, 2022 |title=Meet The Times's New Chess Columnist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/crosswords/chess-columnist-naroditsky.html |work=The New York Times}}

• {{cite book |author=Naroditsky, Daniel |title=Mastering Positional Chess |publisher=New In Chess |year=2010 |isbn=978-90-5691-310-6}}
• {{cite book |author=Naroditsky, Daniel |title=Mastering Complex Endgames |publisher=New In Chess |year=2012 |isbn=978-9056914059}}

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