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American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky’s death exposed an online culture at odds with the game’s staid reputation.

Lia Smith was a senior at Middlebury College, a transgender woman and, for a time, an athlete on the school’s diving team.

Claude Shannon was brilliant. He was the Einstein of computer science… only he loved “fritterin’ away” his time building machines to play chess, solve Rubik’s cubes and beat the house at roulette.