6/3/2019 – Grandmaster Simon Williams says give the Torre Attack the ole college try! He'll show you the main ideas to whet your appetite for his latest DVD on this popular opening for amateur tournament players. Watch live for free starting at the usual time: 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST / 12 Noon EDT).
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Week 23
I have recently finished filming a DVD for Chessbase on the Torre Attack. In this hour long Simon Says I will show you some of the main ideas behind the opening, including some quite shocking and exciting new ideas. Come and join the show to learn more about this opening.
To get in the right mindset, in the following position d5 is a rare yet very dangerous idea, we take a look at this and other Torre ideas in today's Simon Says.
Torre Attack with 4.d5!
Position after 4.d5
Can you guess Black's most recent preferred reply? The answer is below!
This week's show
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About Simon Says
In early 2015 Simon Williams launched his own show called "Simon says" after producing the first of his ChessBase video series. On a weekly basis (with breaks for tournaments and chess events) Simon entertains the chess world with attacking ideas, play strategies and witty manoeuvres on the chess board.
ChessBase Premium members have permanent access to the videos in the archive. Over 60 shows and counting have been published to date. Their lengths differ but most of them run for about 60 minutes.
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Simon WilliamsSimon Williams became a IM in 1998 and a GM in 2008. For the last 15 years he has concentrated on teaching, playing and making instructional chess DVDs. He also has a lot of experience commentating about chess. Being the regular commentator at the strongest and best open tournament in the world, Gibraltar. Simon Williams is the author of numerous chess books. His first chess book. 'Play the Classical Dutch' got voted, in New in Chess, as one of the top 10 chess books of all time. His playing style is very aggressive, preferring attacking chess to positional grinds. No wonder he produced two widely acclaimed ChessBase DVDs on the King's Gambit. More information about Williams can be found on his website.
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