Recently the chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky passed away at the age of 29 years old.

I found Daniel during Covid, I  spent in his online classes dozens of hours. We built fast a community. Daniel was a great teacher, the opportunity to get professional chess classes for free was incredible, but overall, Daniel was a wonderful person in an elite of egos. He was always respectful, specially to the opponents, he would always said during streams: "the opponent has also the right to make good moves".

His Youtube videos were for some of us, a first time falling in love with chess, for others, the first professional classes, and for others, an escape from bad times.

Daniel was a top player, a prodigy from early age, a capable player to challenge Magnus Carlsen in Blitz format.

It is a great lose not to have him with us.

Years before, the former chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik started a crusade to accuse everyone of cheating, month after month he will use his status online to throw accusations, specially a tantrum after losing an online game, most of the time unfounded and making absolutely no sense.

One year ago, Vladimir Kramnik went after Daniel Naroditsky, he went really hard on him and affected him psychologically. Daniel slowly stopped to do videos, one could see how it affected him, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps8tonStZGc

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3vlo8PvDfdQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqR3oWFq7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUjmI5PnA4

The chess community knows well Daniel reached his peak rating of 2647 by hard work, talent and love for the game.

We also figure out that his death is somewhat related to the defamation coming from Vladimir Kramnik.

https://english.elpais.com/sports/2025-10-21/the-inside-story-of-daniel-naroditsky-defamation-and-a-public-spat-with-vladimir-kramnik.html

https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/us-chess-superstar-daniel-naroditsky-faced-repeated-unproven-accusations-of-cheating-by-russian-rival-before-his-death-at-29/

I am a believer of free speech, but one thing is an opinion and another is accusing, defaming and bullying.

I think there should be no space online for such type of extremism, or any space for such horrible behavior.

Vladimir Kramnik has been using online platforms to propagate this poison, he was once banned from chess.com for this reason:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1fp03b5/kramnik_temporarily_suspended_from_chesscom_due/

I created this petition to ask all online platforms to ban Vladimir Kramnik, specially:  x.com, youtube.com, chess.com, lichess.org.

The petition is not an act of revenge, we are not asking Fide to persecute Mr. Kramnik neither his well earned merits of the past.

This petition is the result of a conscious looking at an issue lingering for too long, an issue that was never handled, never faced, to the point that it provoked the death of our loved Daniel. I ask for justice for Daniel in a way that is fair, that will stop it from continuing and happening again, from hurting other people.

Mr. Kramnik has used online platforms to defame and bully chess players, for us that is not acceptable neither free speech. I think the best way to fix the issue is to stop the means Mr. Kramnik uses to do it, in other words, online platforms.

Please sign the petition and tell online platforms about it. Make your voice be heard.

Rest in peace Daniel ❤