9/22/2014 – Rain or shine, during the Chess Olympiad GM Daniel King entertained ChessBase viewers with daily reviews of the round and quickchats. After Tromsø he took a break but now "autumn has arrived and it feels like the right time to look at a chess game." Good for us: In his PowerPlay Chess Show King presents fine efforts from Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand.
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In September Fabiano Caruana shook and delighted the chess world. In the FIDE rating list of September 1st he had a rating of 2801, at that time his best ever, and had just joined the exclusive club of players with a 2800+ rating. Three weeks later all this is history. In a bit more than 20 days Caruana gained 42.5 elo-points and with a live rating of 2843.5 he is now number two in the world and narrowed the gap to World Champion Magnus Carlsen to just 19 points.
Live Rating List, Last updated 20 September, 17:38 GMT
In the first PowerPlay video after his break Daniel King looks at two games of Fabiano Caruana: The first is Caruana's counterattacking brilliancy against Nikola Djukic from the Olympiad, the second is Caruana's demolition of Veselin Topalov in the sixth round of the Sinquefield Cup.
Then King turns his sight to Vishy Anand's fine performance in the Masters in Bilbao. He shows how Anand managed to win a won but complicated position against Ruslan Ponomariov through precise calculation and practical decisions.
Johannes FischerJohannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
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