Two Knights Talk: With Katharina Reinecke

2/6/2025 – In their latest episode of "Two Knights Talk", Johannes Fischer and Arne Kähler welcome Katharina Reinecke, the well-known and popular German streamer. They discuss the pros and cons of Freestyle Chess, the upcoming Freestyle Tournament in Weissenhaus, the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the performance of Faustino Oro in Wijk and Levy Rozman's qualities as an entertainer.

Two Knights Talk: Winning and losing in Wijk aan Zee

1/24/2025 – "Nothing is more difficult than winning a won game." The Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee shows once again how true this seemingly paradoxical sentence is – and in their review of current events in the chess world Arne Kähler and Johannes Fischer therefore look at games from Wijk in which winning positions were lost. On this occasion, they also remember the Dutch grandmaster and legendary writer Jan Hein Donner, who knew a lot about this topic. Finally, the "Two Knights" take a short look at the dispute between FIDE and Freestyle Chess over the right to award world championship titles.

60m English New ideas in the Najdorf_E

‘New ideas in the Najdorf – a Power Play 18 Update’ aims to complement Daniel King’s popular DVD from last year ‘The Sicilian Najdorf - a repertoire for Black’. Such a dynamic and popular opening as the Najdorf is developing the whole time. On this download, Daniel King updates lines that were included on his DVD but also responds to viewers’ requests, considering lines that he omitted from his original repertoire. The lines examined on this update are: • 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2 • 5….a6 6 Bc4 in combination with the English Attack (Be3, f3 etc) • 5…a6 6 Be3 and the …a5 variation • 5…a6 6 Be2 and 9 Re1 • 5 f3 (instead of 5 Nc3) It isn’t necessary to have seen the original Najdorf DVD to understand the lines examined here – but it would help as they form part of a complete repertoire.