| Daniel Naroditsky | |
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 Naroditsky in 2016 | |
| Country | United States |
| Born | November 9, 1995 [1] San Mateo, California, U.S. |
| Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
| FIDE rating | 2619 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2647 (May 2017) [2] |
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| Channel | |
| Followers | 327,000 |
Last updated: November 1, 2024 | |
Daniel Naroditsky [3] (born November 9, 1995) [1] often referred to as Danya, [4] [5] is an American chess grandmaster, author, and commentator.
Born in San Mateo, California, [6] 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. [7] [8]
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. [9] This victory qualified him for the 2014 U.S. Championship.
Naroditsky earned his first grandmaster norm at the Benasque Open in July 2011. [10] He earned his second grandmaster norm at the 2013 Philadelphia Open by tying for first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez. [11] He earned his final grandmaster norm at the 2013 Benasque Open. [12] Naroditsky was officially awarded the grandmaster title at the end of 2013 at age 18.
In 2014, Naroditsky was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship. [13] Later that year, he tied for fifth place in the Millionaire Chess Open in Las Vegas. [14]
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. [15]
In 2019, Naroditsky tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.
He plays on Chess.com under the handle DanielNaroditsky, [16] and on Lichess.org under the handle RebeccaHarris. [17] 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. [18] [19]
By FIDE ratings, Naroditsky is consistently ranked in the top 150 in the World, top 15 in the U.S., top 75 in Rapid, and top 25 in Blitz. [20]
In August 2024, Naroditsky achieved a 2700 FIDE Blitz rating for the first time, and was ranked #23 in the World and #5 in the USA in Blitz. [21]
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, [22] 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 . [23] [24]
Since 2020, he has been the Grandmaster-in-Residence of the Charlotte Chess Center (CCC), [25] where he trains the area's top junior players and was the 2023 CCC Club Champion. [26] [27] [28]
Naroditsky is an active content creator on YouTube and Twitch, where he has about 430,000 subscribers and 320,000 followers, respectively. [29] [30] [ citation needed ]
Naroditsky's parents are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. His father Vladimir immigrated from Ukraine, while his mother Lena came from Azerbaijan. [31] Naroditsky attended high school at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California. [32] He graduated from Stanford University in 2019 with a degree in history. [26]
He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. [23]
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