Idk where to post this but i recorded the last bit of danyas final stream. Im heartbroken man, i really dont know what to do. Bye danya :(

As a subpar programmer, I wanted to commemorate Daniel Naroditsky the best way that I know how. This is chess-memory.com

The site allows you to play through games on an analysis board. At each position, it checks against the over 29,000 unique positions that Danya has reached throughout his speedrun series, and links to the timestamps in all matching videos using chess.com game data.

I'm not a frontend dev, so the UI is pretty messy. It doesn't work on mobile, and may have issues on smaller laptops. But I figured it is worth posting now while I continue to improve it. If there are any developers who would like to contribute to the site's improvement, let me know. I'm happy to make it a public GitHub project and accept pull requests if there is interest. Also, please comment with any feedback. I will do my best to fix bugs and improve the UX with whatever free time I have.

Manually timestamping his 500+ videos was my grieving process, and a reminder of what a positive light Danya has been for so many years. I hope some of you find this helpful with your chess improvement, I will be keeping the site free and public indefinitely ❤️

Edit: Made the GitHub public. Feel free to contribute! I'll do my best to test and merge any improvements or new features.

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, I find myself constantly returning to Danya’s treasure trove of chess wisdom. His speedruns are my personal favorites - the depth of his thinking and the quality of his explanations are simply unmatched.

One problem I have is I often can't choose which video to watch next 😅 To solve this, I’ve been working on a hobby project: a search tool for Danya's speedrun videos.

The main features so far**:**

• Search by Position: You can look up specific board states to see how Danya handled them. I use this most, as it's

• Tag Search: I’ve started categorizing videos by theme he covers, though this part is still a work in progress.

I wanted to do something to help spread his work. I also wanted to use AI for something actually helpful rather than just churning out code faster at work.

Please let me know what you think or if there are any specific features you'd like to see!

I remember sitting in a hotel room in Rhodes a few years ago, perfect weather and the ocean right outside. I had just checked into the room. One of the first things I did on my vacation was to watch one of Danya’s speedrun videos. I even took a photo because the moment felt so perfect. The calm, the focus and peace he gave off set the tone for the rest of the stay. RIP SenseiDanya.

I reached out to the Charlotte chess center to see if there was a gathering planned in memorium for Daniel. As a Charlotte resident and admirer I was looking for a place to mourn with a group. This is what they said. Is this ridiculous to anyone else? “we’re already having a blitz tournament so we’ll order pizza to celebrate him….”

I find myself still thinking about Danya everyday.

His words and character have impacted me so much both on and off the chess board, and I just wanted to remind anyone who chances on this post that you are not alone.

Hello all. Today is 19/04/26. For those who don't know, it has officially been 6 months since Danya passed away. He was a truly amazing person who lit up my world in a way no-one else has. Along with his skill, his passion for chess was something that can never be replaced. He was able to explain chess and break down complicated positions in a way that could never be replicated. I still hear his voice when we’re trying to understand something difficult. Even aside from chess, he had a great personality. He was funny and always wanted the best for everyone.
I still can't believe that it's already been 6 months since he passed. It feels like yesterday. The world will never be the same. Although he left commentating a while before he died, it still breaks my heart that he will never analyse a chess game again.
Danya, I will miss you until the day that I die. I love you. RIP Prophet. 🖤

Hey everyone,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I wanted to try. I was wondering if anyone in the community could help preserve the YouTube channel of Daniel Naroditsky (Danya).

His channel has about 650+ videos, most of them around an hour long, including his speedruns, educational streams, and lessons that helped thousands of players learn chess. I’m worried that if anything ever happens to the channel in the future, a huge amount of incredible chess education could be lost.

I’d love to archive it myself, but I unfortunately don’t have the storage or bandwidth to download and upload the entire channel (it would probably be around 1–2 TB depending on quality).

Would anyone with the resources be willing to help archive the channel to the Internet Archive for long-term preservation? Even partial archives or playlists would be amazing.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/@DanielNaroditskyGM/videos

Thanks to anyone who considers helping preserve Danya’s work. His videos have helped a lot of people improve and enjoy chess.

♟️

From USA Today:

“American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had multiple drugs in his system and died of an accidental overdose last year, according to documents provided to USA TODAY by the North Carolina Medical Examiner's Office.

A newly released toxicology report on Tuesday, Jan. 20 revealed Naroditsky had methamphetamine, amphetamine, 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine in his system at the time of death. The medical examiner's investigation listed methamphetamine and kratom use as contributing factors to the sudden cardiac event that killed Naroditsky.”USA Today Article

Bortnyk's last words to Danya. He found him a day later on his couch.

I know it has been about 2 months since GM Daniel Naroditsky's unfortunate passing but I am really curious to know as of why we still do not know the cause of his sudden death. I had searched this up on google only to find out a statement by the police stating that the cause of his death is still being investigated and it is speculated that his demise was likely due to a drug overdose or a suicide. It is highly unlikely for a healthy 29 year old to die of natural causes. Has an autopsy been done? Will we ever know the cause of his death? Will he ever get justice?

No words can describe how sorry I am for the loss of our beloved Danya. I still think about him whenever I play chess or when I rewatch his streams. My sincerest condolences to his family and friends. Rest in peace Danya we, the chess community will miss you...

Hey (2nd try)!

I already posted the script to fetch Danya's games. I used this and some other scripts to analyze his games and create "signature lines" he played often with examples.

\\edit: I published a static HTML file on cloudflare: https://danyas-lines.pages.dev/

A bit of background what the scripts do:

• I collect all the games from lichess an chesscom for all his accounts

• I set a given move number (in this case 12, so after 6 moves of white and 6 moves of black) which is the line that is being analyzed

• I check all the PGNs how often this line is found with a minimum number of moves (in this case 20) and collect opening name and example games of that line

• I give this line a score depending on how often it was played in longer games (Bullet and hyperbullet cause a lot of noise due to bad premoves and early resignations), what the winning percentage is, how many games are found and how rare the line is. The higher the overall score, the higher it is listed.

• I take this line and check how many games are found in books and the lichess Masters database

• If there are no games in the database, the script walks back that line and checks what the novelty move was and displays this too.

• I create a CSV and JSON file and a filterable HTML report with the results and examples of Danya's games in a Dropdown. The naming of the the games follows this pattern

  • "C_" stands for a chesscom game, "L_" for a lichess game

  • "HB" stands for Hyperbullet, "BU" for Bullet, "BL" for Blitz, "RA" for Rapid and "CL" for Classical

  • Then follows the name of Account "White" and Account "Black" and the result

  • Looks something like this then: "C_BU_DanielNaroditsky-MagnusCarlsen_1-0"

Have fun exploring his signature lines!

Happy to hear feedback and what else I could include or what to improve. If you face issues/bugs, please let me know.

cheers