12/9/2015 – There's a high chance of 4 draws and one decisive win per round if you look at the first five rounds of the London Chess Classic 2015. The decisive wins from round 4 and 5 are reviewed by Daniel King in his usual comprehensive manner. Being present at the Classic, he's the right man to show you some insights to the games. Click here for the videos...
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Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
IM Andrew Martin gets you ready to play the Barry in your own games. Players under 2200 will benefit the most. It turns out that after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3!? d5 4 Bf4 Bg7, White has no less than four dangerous moves, 5 e3, 5 Qd2, 5 Nb5 and 5 h3.
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Nakamura vs Anand Round 4
Anand vs Topalov Round 5
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07.12 Monday Round 4
Merijn van Delft
Georgios Souleidis/Dorian Rogozenco
08.12 Tuesday Round 5
Merijn van Delft
Oliver Reeh/Dorian Rogozenco
10.12 Thursday Round 6
Merijn van Delft
Sebastian Siebrecht
11.12 Friday Round 7
Mihail Marin
Sebastian Siebrecht
12.12 Saturday Round 8
Georgios Souleidis/Oliver Reeh
Sebastian Siebrecht
13.12 Sunday Round 9
Yannick Pelletier
Oliver Reeh/Martin Breutigam
Daniel King: Mr. Powerplay
Daniel King during a visit in Hamburg
Grandmaster Daniel King has been a professional chess player for more than 20 years and 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.
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The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs.
The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at
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FIDE Grand Prix 2022: Esipenko, Giri, Vidit, Oparin, Predke, Shankland, So and Vitiugov comment + videos by Rogozenco. "Special" on Bent Larsen. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Ragger and Marin. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire!
The new Opening Encyclopaedia offers fast access to all openings. Openings are sorted via the menu by name & ECO Code for fast and easy access to your favorite openings.
Throughout my playing career I have found the Hedgehog one of the most difficult type of positions to master. The basic aim of this video is to improve understanding of these complex positions and to help tournament players score better.
Studying this video course should greatly improve the viewer’s handling of dynamic pawn positions! As with all my other video courses material here is predominantly aimed at improving players and tournament players.
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