Banter Blitz with Kingscrusher on blitz.chessbase.com

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1/11/2018 – Tryfon Gavriel — a.k.a. Kingscrusher — will start a weekly banter series on blitz.chessbase.com. He will commentate while playing against ChessBase Account members in his live stream on YouTube, Wednesdays at 20:00 CET (2 pm EST). "I will try and give you greater enthusiasm for the game and in particular the dynamic aggressive aspects of playing chess", writes Kingscrusher. "If you want to be a dynamic aggressive player, I may be able to encourage you..."

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Banter Blitz with Kingscrusher

Tryfon GavrielTryfon Gavriel also known as "Kingscrusher" is a FIDE Candidate Master (CM), British Regional Chess Master, and run a popular Youtube channel for many years with over 80k+ subscribers.

He will play against Chessbase Account members on blitz.chessbase.com. While blitzing he will let you know what he thinks about the position. It'll be a YouTube Live stream that you can follow here starting at 20:00 CET (2 pm EST), every Wednesday.

On blitz.chessbase.com playing chess is one click away. Pick your time control and get your opponent. It's that simple! "It's pretty responsive," Kingscrusher notes near the top of his first show using the web blitz feature.

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Here's the first stream from January 10th (we pick it up after the first game, when there was a small technical hitch with his webcasting software):

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Asnasium Asnasium 1/11/2018 11:46
@macauley life in chess is indeed thankless. Your response made me think of The Hunting of the Snark. (No idea why.) I watch Kingscrusher a lot on Chess 24. He is a real player and entertaining. Howdever, he is not good at reeling in non-premium lurkers. His marketing skills leave something to be desired. I would recommend some "snake-oil" sales courses before setting him loose - Just some friendly advice from a long time watcher of this site....
macauley macauley 1/11/2018 08:43
@TMMM - Feel free. We're working on some new banter blitz features to be showcased soon. Competition is good for chess. Snark, less so.
mrstillwater mrstillwater 1/11/2018 07:16
@amalwa You're obviously trolling by the use of the term "real player" but to answer your question anyway to explain to other people who might not be familiar with him, he's an entertaining player to watch as he plays very aggressively, playing gambits and saccing pieces for an attack in most of his games.
amalwa amalwa 1/11/2018 05:08
Don’t ger the fuss about Kingscrusher? Wouldn’t ppl rather watch a real chess player?
TMMM TMMM 1/11/2018 03:28
Haha, ChessBase wants to become "modern" as well I suppose. I've never seen Kingscrusher use PlayChess before - in fact, all streamers on e.g. Twitch use one of two other live chess websites. (Knowing ChessBase, I suppose mentioning those two competitors here will probably get this comment removed.)
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