Holy wow, did not expect to se Danya love here. Easily my favourite person in the chess world, and absolutely honourable man and simply the best teacher. Got me through COVID. I have his lessons downloaded on my phone and I always re-watch them them on long flights, and learn something new each time.
As martin said, the absolute nicest guy. Life took an absolute turn for a worse after an absolutely dinosaur made baseless acquisations against him. Some extra context, but Danya had spoken regularly that Kramnik was a hero of his growing up. After the acqusations, he spoke that he felt like he couldn't even play well off camera without "arising suspicions".
Martin - I'm not sure if you're aware (or even want to know - apologies if that's the case) but he was streaming the night before he died. It's a pretty tough watch and he had clearly turned to drugs or some sort.
Such a massive, heartbreaking contrast from how he was 12 months earlier. Now I'm on the uglier side of 30 as well, you sort of expect that everyone younger than you will be around forever.
As martin said, the absolute nicest guy. Life took an absolute turn for a worse after an absolutely dinosaur made baseless acquisations against him. Some extra context, but Danya had spoken regularly that Kramnik was a hero of his growing up. After the acqusations, he spoke that he felt like he couldn't even play well off camera without "arising suspicions".
Martin - I'm not sure if you're aware (or even want to know - apologies if that's the case) but he was streaming the night before he died. It's a pretty tough watch and he had clearly turned to drugs or some sort.
Such a massive, heartbreaking contrast from how he was 12 months earlier. Now I'm on the uglier side of 30 as well, you sort of expect that everyone younger than you will be around forever.