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: 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

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Najdorf strategy and theory

3/5/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at the last-round win of Hovhannes Gabuzyan in the Armenian Championship. Tigran Petrosian, playing white, tried a positional approach against the Najdorf, but was duly outplayed by the recently-crowned Armenian champion. | 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: Bashing the Gruenfeld

2/26/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King shows how White can try to bash the Gruenfeld with the seemingly modest 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2. But there is hidden menace.... | 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: Fine Strategy

2/19/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes another look at the recently finished Opera Euro Rapid Online Tournament, and presents a fine strategic performance by Anish Giri from that tournament. | 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: Elegant Endgames

2/12/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at two elegant endgames, one from the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee and one from the Opera Euro Rapid Online Tournament. | 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: Tata Steel tactics test

2/5/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks back to Wijk aan Zee and offers a "Tata Steel tactics test". Do you see what the grandmasters saw or did not see? | 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: The new King's Indian

1/29/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King is focusing on the stylish game between Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Fabiano Caruana from round 9 of the Tata Steel Tournament, where the World #2 employed a daring and surprising strategy in the King's Indian. | 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: Carlsen, Firouzja and a typical pawn sacrifice

1/22/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at Magnus Carlsen's win against Alireza Firouzja from the first round of the Tata Steel Tournament 2021 in Wijk aan Zee, in which Carlsen brought a typical pawn sacrifice to initiate a dangerous - and finally successful - attack. | 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: Jurriaan Hoefsmit

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Frank Marshall's Octopus Knight

1/15/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at game by Frank Marshall (1877-1944), U.S. Champion from 1909 to 1936, and a legendary attacking player. | 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: An exemplary endgame by Wei Yi

1/8/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at an exemplary endgame by Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi. A game that should be added to the long list of textbook positional performances. | 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: A strategic masterpiece by Daniil Dubov

12/28/2020 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at Daniil Dubov's play at the Russian Championship in December. Dubov is known for his creative tactical style but he is also able to play strategic masterpieces.

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: Deadly Nepo

12/18/2020 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at a powerful victory by Ian Nepomniachtchi, who recently won the Russian Championship in Moscow. Daniel also sets up another mate-in-two for you to solve, this time by André Chéron, a three-time French champion who was also an endgame theorist. | 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: Eteri Kublashvili

Daniel King's Power Play Show: Wesley So destroys the King's Indian

12/11/2020 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look how Wesley So - successfully - plays against the King's Indian. And there will be another problem by Odette Vollenweider, the most prominent female composer of the modern era. | 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: Champions Chess Tour | Archive
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