Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who grew up in the Bay Area, has died at the age of 29, according to a North Carolina-based chess center where he worked.

Naroditsky became the youngest chess player to be California K-12 champion, a title he won as a fifth-grader in 2007, and became a grandmaster — the highest title given to competitors by the International Chess Federation — before his senior year of high school.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.