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Danya's death hit hard. He was a kind soul that was always generous with his time who loved playing, teaching and commentating chess and was easily one of the nicest GMs in chess.

I was an avid watcher of his Stream while he was regular streamer and commentator (amongst the best in the world), unfortunately saw the effect of his once idol Kramnik's accusations had on him, having to constantly prove himself, even in is his last stream [1], playing beyond exhaustion to the point his friends had to get him to physically switch off his stream, but he didn't want to because he was worried that if he had good results off stream that people would raise questions.

Kramnik was an ex World Champion, became unhinged and started indiscriminately accusing many GMs who beat him in short time controls of cheating, absurd claims made from his bedroom watching streams playing detective, where he accused #2 GM Hikaru that he had access to an evaluation bar which his editors added on his games he reviews before publishing them to YouTube [2]. In addition to torturing Danya with accusations for a year he also drove GM David Navara to depression [3] who he is currently trying to sue for defamation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbk-mvBmLUM

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1dtlvcb/kramnik_beli...

[3] https://www.chess.com/blog/FormerProdigy/because-we-care