[amrrs]

It's heartbreaking and sad. His video a couple of days back was literally titled "You thought I was gone! Speedrun retruns"

The comments on that video was so kind and heartwarming where people wished him well.

While we don't know the exact cause, we can all agree that he was subjected to extreme bullying and no one stood up for him - most importantly FIDE!

[CalChris]

Kramnick.

[nomilk]

From what I understand, Kramnick pointed out Danya's behaviour was erratic and suspected alcohol or drug use (everyone else broached it much more sensitively, saying drugs was a ridiculous notion, and giving him space/privacy but perhaps suspecting possible mental health, mental breakdown, or maybe narcolepsy).

Kramnick may have been forthright and lacking tact, but it was clear from Danya's behaviours that he sadly had an underlying psychological condition that could happen to any of us.

[monooso]

Kramnick repeatedly accused Danya of cheating, which prompted a lot of ongoing abuse from his acolytes. Danya spoke publicly about the stress this caused him several times.

Of course, as ever, Kramnick had nothing to back up his claims, a fact which in no way prevented him repeating them ad-nauseum.

That's not being "forthright" or "lacking tact". That's being an abusive asshole.

[nomilk]

I hadn't follow closely enough and wasn't aware - thanks for pointing out.

Kramnick accuses Danya of cheating (several pieces of circumstantial 'evidence' in the thread): https://x.com/VBkramnik/status/1911179469773033512

A tweet by IM Kostya Kavutskiy of ChessDojo from November 2024 (paraphrased):

> Our intention was to express concern for what's going on. Many of us supported Kramnik's fight against online cheating for some time.

> But then he started naming players left & right, some of whom were likely 100% innocent, who got their name dragged through the mud regardless. Kramnik also started naming actual children at one point, without any real evidence from what I could tell

> And it's not "just asking questions", it's casting aspersions. And the words of any world champion obviously carry a lot of responsibility.

https://x.com/hellokostya/status/1852388806143390131

[lostmsu]

This whole cheating kerfuffle would have never happened if people would have switched to games or variations of games that are not beaten by computers.

[syllogism]

This has been discussed to death but to reiterate here: people have been much too polite about Kramnick's nonsense. Danya and Hikaru are (were) probably the two people in the world whose bullet play is least suspicious. Cheating isn't very powerful in short time controls, and they have streamed thousands of games playing them.

Kramnick's bullshit never made any damn sense at all.

[permo-w]

no doubt they're two of the least suspicious, particularly Danya, but you're mistaken in thinking that cheating isn't very powerful in short time controls