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!
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On this DVD, Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black with the QGD and against the Catalan. The repertoire is demonstrated in 20 stem games, covering all White's major systems.
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The Queen's Gambit Declined
The line we are dealing with today is the Tartakower Variation: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 b6!?
This is one of the most topical and famous positions in the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD), 7...b6 introduces the Tartakower Variation. Black is aiming to fianchetto his bishop to b7 and to finish his development by placing the knight on d7.
The main goal will be to strike with c7-c5 and challenge White's central control. Black will think about a knights jump to e4, trying to exchange the dark squared bishops in order to improve his queen and to free his position furthermore.
White will try to make it harder for Black to play c5 by placing the rooks to d1 (oppositing to the black queen!) and the other one most likely to c1, the white queen will leave the first rank to connect the rooks, most likely moving to e2 or c2. An interesting and complex battle begins.
This position is one of the main lines in the Queen's Gambit Declined and is the favourite weapon from some super grandmasters, e.g. it is very regularly played from the black side by English number one Super GM Michael Adams or the strong German GM Georg Meier. Also Carlsen, Kramnik, So and many other top grandmaster play this variation.
Garry Kasparov took to the Queen’s Gambit at a relatively late stage of his chess career, but then had the best training anyone could imagine: in his first match for the world championship against Anatoly Karpov, this opening appeared on the board no less than 19 times. Now he shares his knowledge with you.
GM Daniel King explains the basics in 4 minutes
Interested? Try if the opening suits you, playing Fritz as your sparrings partner, choose an opponent to match your playing strength: Beginner, Amateur, Club-Player, Master. This is a good way to prepare for your next beach game, a more serious encounter, your next club tournament, or the international GM event.
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Were you able to beat the program? If you were you should try the next-higher level — click or tap the New Game button on the left of the ribbon and the program will jump back to the end of the variation we are learning. Keep doing this to try alternate continuations. You will find that you are learning the ideas behind the Queen's Gambit. It will help you in your games against human opponents.
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Daniel King (born 1963) is a grandmaster and has been a professional chess player for more than 20 years. He 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.
On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black with the QGD. The repertoire is demonstrated in 10 stem games, covering all White's major systems: 5 Bg5, 5 Bf4, and the Exchange Variation.
Daniel has recorded a large number of FritzTrainer and other DVDs for ChessBase
Daniel KingDaniel King is a regular on playchess.com. Commentating on live events such as the World Championship or analysing themes for his monthly Power Play Show. He also produces a DVD series called Power Play for ChessBase in the Fritztrainer format.
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