Daniel King

Daniel King (born 1963) is a Grandmaster, has been a professional chess player for more than 20 years and has represented his country in numerous competitions, amongst others in the historic win by the English over the Soviet Union in 1990 in Reykjavik. King is the author of more than 15 chess books and has wealth of experience as a trainer, assisting many of England’s leading players. He is also well known for his broadcasting on TV, radio and the internet, commentating major chess events. To the delight of chess fans worldwide, he hosts his monthly "Powerplay" show on the world's largest chess server, Playchess.com. He contributes to ChessBase Magazine, with the popular column "Move by Move". King has also produced the highly praised PowerPlay DVD series for ChessBase. King lives in London.

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Daniel King’s Power Play Show: World Cup action and an answer to the London System

7/30/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at games from the World Cup, including a a decent answer to the London System, and offers tactics and endgames. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: The Beast attacks

7/23/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at tactics from the World Cup with the main feature a brilliant attack by Adhiban 'The Beast' Baskaran. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Highlights from the World Cup

7/16/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at highlights from the World Cup in Sochi and presents two interesting endgames and a brilliancy with echoes of a famous Fischer victory. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Crucial rook and pawn technique

7/10/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at two games from the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament. Daniel did an excellent job commentating the games live, and uses two examples from the event to show how important it is to develop a good understanding of rook and pawn positions. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Play like Bobby Fischer

6/25/2021 – In this Power Play Show GM Daniel King looks at the game Fischer-Gheorghiu - a beautiful and typical strategic squeeze from the American World Champion, played in his golden period in 1970. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Test your attacking play

6/18/2021 – In this Power Play Show GM Daniel King looks at some attacking games from the Gelfand Challenge, an online rapid round-robin tournament with 20 of the world's best juniors that was won by the Indian Gukesh D. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Calculation and strategy

6/11/2021 – In this Power Play Show GM Daniel King features some complex calculation from the Superbet Chess Classic tournament in Bucharest, focusing in particular on the fine game Caruana-Lupulescu.| Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: The Kalashnikov strikes

5/28/2021 – In this Power Play Show by GM Daniel King the Kalashnikov and a fine game from the FTX Crypto Cup are on the menu. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Miniatures from the Russian Team Championships

5/21/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks back to the Russian Team Championships in Sochi and presents interesting miniatures, games in which one side quickly collapsed. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: The King's Gambit with 3.Bc4

5/14/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at the Bishop's Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4, an interesting and surprisingly tricky way to play the King's Gambit. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Ian Nepomniachtchi wins the Candidates

4/30/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks back to the Candidates and tries to find out how and why Ian Nepomniachtchi won the tournament and became World Championship challenger. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Wang Hao vs Grischuk

4/23/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at the game Wang Hao vs Alexander Grischuk, played in round 10 of the Candidates. In this game Grischuk thought for 72(!) minutes in a theoretically known position, and Wang Hao later tried to win with a queen sacrifice that was certainly dangerous and creative - but was it really sound? | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Can you play like Capablanca?

4/16/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King continues to look at the World Championship match Capablanca-Lasker played 100 years ago in Havana and invites you to find out whether you can play like Capablanca. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Capablanca v Lasker 1921 - Part 2

4/9/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at another game from the Capablanca-Lasker match played 100 years ago this month. A positional masterpiece. Daniel also presents a two-mover plus a nice trio of two-movers, and a study Lasker and Capablanca jointly composed after their blitz match in Berlin 1914. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Capablanca v Lasker 1921

4/2/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at a game from the Capablanca-Lasker World Championship match played 100 years ago (give or take a few days)! | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Test your calculation with Wesley So

3/26/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at a brilliant game from the Magnus Carlsen Invitational featuring brilliant calculation skills by Wesley So. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Devilish stalemate ideas

3/19/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at contemporary games in which one of the players swiftly escapes from defeat by using devilish ideas. Daniel also looks at how theory has developed in the Spanish Steinitz variation. | Power Play is on air most Fridays at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 13:00 ET). All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Ivanchuk and his octopus knights

3/12/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at a game recommended by a viewer which features Vassily Ivanchuk playing with a double octopus knight. The game also features great positional judgement plus razor-sharp tactical vision and calculation. | Power Play is on air most Fridays at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 13:00 ET). All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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