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Power Play 20: Test Your Attacking Chess
Grandmaster Daniel King presents ten exemplary attacking performances. At key moments he stops and asks you to play a move. King then gives feedback on the most plausible continuations. It’s the next best thing to having your own personal trainer!
In his preview of the double round-robin candidates tournament 2020, Daniel King has already reviewed Wang Hao, Anish Giri, Kirill Alekseenko, Ian Nepomniatchi, Alexander Grischuk and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on his YouTube channel (all links to the previews are further below). The only two missing players are Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana. King is concentrating on Ding Liren now, who has had an Elo rating of over 2800 for over 18 months meanwhile.
From August 2017 to December 2018 the current number three in the world did not suffer a single loss and had a streak of 100 classical games without a defeat. During this time, Ding took part in his first candidates tournament where he drew all of his games except one, which he won. He keeps on getting better and may well be the hardest player to beat in Yekaterinburg.
Daniel King analyses one of Ding's games in which he beats none other than the world champion himself, Magnus Carlsen. Although this game is "only" a blitz game, we can see the strategic strength of the Chinese grandmaster.
