Daniel King's Power Play Show: Alekhine and Ding Liren

by Daniel King
6/23/2026 – Alekhine very much liked to play with a particular pawn structure against the Queen's Gambit Declined. He understood how White had excellent chances to gain the initiative. Ding is inclined to agree with him!
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Alekhine and Ding

Alekhine very much liked to play with a particular pawn structure against the Queen's Gambit Declined. He understood how White had excellent chances to gain the initiative. Ding is inclined to agree with him!

Warm-up

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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Daniel King is the prolific author of the Power Play series which numbers 28 volumes to date. The Tactic Turbo for the King’s Gambit is the subject of his most recent DVD.

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Daniel 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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60m The Two Knights

This entry into the 60 minutes series concentrates on the Modern variation of the Italian game where White opens the centre early : 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d4 exd4 5 e5!. This line can be reached by various move orders, most frequently from the Scotch 3 d4 exd4 4 Bc4. It's a sharp variation and Grandmasters such as Evgeny Sveshnikov have used it frequently,with very good results. It's a perfect line for club players to adopt which is relatively easy to learn and which contains many traps. All the main responses are covered here, including 5...d5, 5...Ng4 and 5...Ne4 and the conclusion is that is is difficult for Black to equalize in a straightforward way. Problems are being posed, which over the board might prove tough to solve.

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loeki loeki 6/24/2026 08:50
Speakers must be louder please. Difficult to understand. Exception for the video's Svetlana. If possible slower in the variations (Most K.Müller)
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