American world number two Hikaru Nakamura said he was “devastated” at the news.
“This is a massive loss for the world of chess,” Nakamura said in a social media post.
Naroditsky first took an interest in chess at the age of six, when his older brother Alan introduced him to the game to help entertain a group of children at a birthday party.
His father Vladimir and multiple coaches soon noticed his talents.
“As far as I was concerned, I was just playing games with my brother,” Naroditsky told the New York Times in a 2022 interview.
He gained international attention in 2007 when he won the under-12 boys world youth championship in Antalya, Turkey. In 2010, at the age of 14, he became one of the youngest ever published chess authors when he wrote a book titled Mastering Positional Chess, covering practical skills and technical manoeuvrings.
In 2013 Naroditsky won the US Junior Championship, helping him earn the title of grandmaster, the international chess federation’s highest-ranked chess competitor, while he was still a teenager.