11/30/2018 – Friday at 18:00 CET (17:00 UTC) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer, plus Daniel will be looking at the tie-break games from the World Championship. Puzzle and the live video...

10/31/2018 – Wednesday at 19:00 CEST (18:00 UT) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer, plus Daniel will be looking at games from the Chesscom Isle of Man. Puzzle and the live video...

10/17/2018 – Wednesday at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UT) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer, plus Daniel will be looking at games from the Olympiad. Puzzle and the live video...

9/26/2018 – Wednesday at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UT) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer, plus Daniel will be looking at games from the first rounds of the Olympiad. Puzzle and the live video...

9/12/2018 – Wednesday at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UT) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer, plus Daniel will be looking at a crazy attack in a new line of the Nimzo Indian. Puzzle and the live video...

9/4/2018 – The placid outwardly appearance of the Petroff Defence could easily trick one into believing that he or she could use it to enjoy a quiet draw. It isn't unusual these days to see grandmaster games that drift into this line end in quick draws. But the Petroff has been around since the times of Greco and white players have found their fair share of traps, tactics and attacking opportunities in it. Even in some of the very recent games from master practice, black players have fallen prey to brilliant attacks. So, is the Petroff really as innocuous as advertised?

8/29/2018 – Wednesday at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UT) Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

7/19/2018 – Learn from GM DANIEL KING on a favourite variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Here's the deal: you invest a small amount of time, reading a few paragraphs about an interesting opening line, selected for you by one of the world's great chess trainers. After that, you try it out, right there in your browser, against an engine that matches the playing strength of you potential opponents. You can play any number of games and test different ideas, as far as possible following the instructions of an experienced chess trainer. We have a brand-new application to support this kind of learning. Take a look – and admit: it is great fun!

7/18/2018 – Wednesday at 6pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

7/9/2018 – Monday at 6pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

6/27/2018 – Wednesday at 6pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

6/11/2018 – Thursday at 8pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

6/7/2018 – Magnus Carlsen made a quick draw against Vachier-Lagrave in the final round, aiming to take his chances in a tiebreak with one or more of his colleagues, but Fabiano Caruana had other ideas...GM King takes a last look at Altibox Norway Chess 2018. ChessBase Premium members can catch up on the action, on-demand, with videos by two of your favourite contributors: GM Daniel King and IM Lawrence Trent. Here are all shows at a glance.

5/24/2018 – Via Playchess, ChessBase offers hundreds of live and on-demand videos: live commentary webcasts of high-class tournaments or regular shows with the likes of Daniel King, Simon Williams, Lawrence Trent, and other stars. These videos are full of exciting annotated games, but have you ever wondered how you can you copy them to your own database? It just so happens that you can — and it's pretty easy! | Photo: ChessBase

5/24/2018 – Thursday at 8pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

5/17/2018 – Thursday at 8pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. This episodes is about a classic game from Smyslov. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

5/17/2018 – Nigel Short once said, "Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game!" The art of checkmating our opponent is something that we learn when we are young. But once we know what checkmate is all about, we hardly go back to that subject. In order to ensure that you polish your art of pattern recognition related to mating attacks, Daniel King has come out with his latest Powerplay DVD — Powerplay 26. It's named as checkmate challenge — essential knowledge. In order to tell you what this DVD is all about, IM Sagar Shah takes you on a journey of three tales. Three tales of mating attacks by players of three different generations!

4/26/2018 – Thursday at 6pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. This episode is about a Vugar Gashimov speciality: 1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Qxd4 Nc6 5 Bb5. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

4/23/2018 – Essential knowledge! Checkmate. That’s the aim of the game. There are numerous ways to checkmate the enemy king, but there are common patterns that recur over and over again, and having these at our mental fingertips is essential for when we want to finish the game. From Beginner to Brain-buster, this DVD presents 100 puzzles, divided into 10 groups of 10 positions. Naturally, Level 1 is the easiest, and the puzzles increase in difficulty right through to Level 10. You can jump in at whatever level you wish, but try to solve all ten positions on each level before you move on to the next.

4/18/2018 – Wednesday at 8pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. This episodes about Caruana's attacking games. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

3/28/2018 – ChessBase Premium members can catch up on the action with videos by your favourite contributors. After round fourteen GM Simon Williams covers the highlights of the round.

3/21/2018 – Wednesday at 9pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. This episode is about the ongoing Candidates tournament. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

3/8/2018 – Thursday at 9pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. This episodes about Anand's success in the Tal Memorial Rapid. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...

2/22/2018 – Tuesday at 6pm UK time Daniel King will go on air on playchess.com. You can watch the episode live for free. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. Puzzle and the live video...