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!
Daniel King will be part of the commentary team of grandmasters at the Candidates Tournament.
Nominal favorites for the 2020 Candidates Tournament are Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren, the only two participants with an Elo rating of over 2800 points. If Elo rating were 100 percent reliable as a predictor for the outcome of such events, Caruana and Carlsen — who in 2018 played for the World Championship in London — would meet once again next December, in Dubai. With a current Elo rating of 2842, Caruana is 37 points ahead of Ding, who is the number two seed in Yekaterinburg with a rating of 2805.
#FIDECandidates Tournament 2020 will take place from March 15 to April 4.
— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) March 1, 2020
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FIDE Elo ratings and world rank as of March 2020.
# | Name | FED | Elo | World Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fabiano Caruana | USA | 2842 | 2 |
2 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 2765 | 9 |
3 | Ding Liren | CHN | 2805 | 3 |
4 | Wang Hao | CHN | 2762 | 12 |
5 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2777 | 4 |
6 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | RUS | 2774 | 5 |
7 | Anish Giri | NED | 2763 | 11 |
8 | Kirill Alekseenko | RUS | 2698 | 39 |
So far, Daniel King has taken a look at the play and chances of four of the eight candidates — Kirill Alekseenko, Wang Hao, Anish Giri and Teimour Radjabov — but in the two weeks to come he will also take a close look at the other four candidates.
Update: After publication of this video, Radjabov withdrew.