Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess champions and a coach at the Charlotte Chess Center, died of cardiac arrhythmia, or an abnormal heartbeat, after ingesting methamphetamine and kratom, according to his autopsy report.
The manner of death was an accident, according to the findings.
Two days before the 29-year-old Naroditsky died, friends “noted he appeared to exhibit concerning altered mental status while streaming online,” according to the autopsy report by Dr. James Lozano, medical examiner-forensic pathologist at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office. “Per report, they went to his residence and ‘confiscated’ approximately 40 pills described as probably Adderall.”…