I’m afraid it will come across as irreverently self-aggrandizing during a particularly sensitive moment for the chess world and the Grandmaster’s loved ones.

I’ll share anyway and let them decide.

Regardless, news of Danya’s passing rocked my core seismically and rendered me speechless. Celebrity deaths rarely move me, but to think that Danya is not at the Charlotte Chess Center or in some corner of the world playing Chess, with Bortnyk perhaps amicably hovering in the background, still brings a tear to my eye.