Pascal Simon

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show: A Vugar Gashimov speciality

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...

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The Power Play Show: Attack with Caruana!

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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The Power Play Show

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...

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Tune your tactics - Calculation training 3

2/9/2018 – A solid tactical understanding is sure to help any chess player in critical situations. Whether it is a simple exchange or a mating attack, tactics are ubiquitous. Take advantage of the opportunity to develop your tactical understanding in this series with IM Oliver Reeh and Pascal Simon! Thursday at 15:30 CET (9:30 AM EDT) it's all about calculation training!

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Fritz 16 - English Version

Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you’re certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with the “Easy play” and “Assisted analysis” modes.

€69.90

The Vienna Variation - a reliable and ambitious weapon against 1.d4

The Vienna Variation is a particular and independent system of the Queen’s Gambit. It arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4, when black’s capture on move 4 is strongly reminiscent of the Queen’s Gambit Accepted.

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The Tarrasch Defence

Are you looking for an active defence against 1.d4? Look no further! The Tarrasch Defence (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) is one of Black’s most ambitious ways to meet 1.d4.

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ChessBase Magazin 185

Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (Norway Chess and Poikovsky) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 12 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.

€19.95

The Beliavsky Plan against the Stonewall Dutch

You exchange the bishop on f4 to open the g-file (gxf4) and double rooks there. Black will protect his weakness on this file with all his forces. You transfer your pieces to the other side, create a new weakness there, and the opponent will be helpless

€9.90

New Developments in the Arkhangelsk Variation

Mikhalchishin's new work sheds light on fresh ideas in the hyper-sharp c3 variation, the classical line, which is specially well played by Caruana, as well as further entertaining developments in the Semi-Arkhangelsk with a temporarily delayed b7-b5.

€9.90

Smash the Sicilian with the Smith-Morra Gambit

The Smith-Morra Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4!) is a great attacking weapon against the popular Sicilian . On move two White sacrifices a pawn for fast development and good attacking chances, and Black can easily fall into one of the many devious opening traps.

€29.90

ChessBase Magazine Extra 184

35.855 games and videos by Adrian Mikhalchishin, Georgios Souleidis & Yannick Pelletier

€12.99

Meeting the Gambits Vol.2 - Gambits after 1.d4

When facing gambits the most important thing is not to panic, a feeling usually induced by lack of knowledge. Keep calm, learn the antidotes and face the aggression with renewed confidence.

€29.90

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