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Magnus Carlsen won the tiebreak match 3-0 to reclaim the World Championship title. Here the players receive their awards:
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Power Play 23: A Repertoire for black with the Queen's Gambit Declined
On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black with the QGD. The repertoire is demonstrated in 10 stem games, covering all White's major systems: 5 Bg5, 5 Bf4, and the Exchange Variation.
Powerplay 26: Checkmate Challenge — essential knowledge
Checkmate. That's the aim of the game. There are numerous ways to checkmate the enemy king, but there are common patterns that recur over and over again, and having these at our mental fingertips is essential for when we want to finish the game.
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| Friday | 09.11.2018 | Game 1 | Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| Saturday | 10.11.2018 | Game 2 | Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| Sunday | 11.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Monday | 12.11.2018 | Game 3 | Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| Tuesday | 13.11.2018 | Game 4 | Yannick Pelletier / Michael Adams |
| Wednesday | 14.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Thursday | 15.11.2018 | Game 5 | Yannick Pelletier / Aryan Tari |
| Friday | 16.11.2018 | Game 6 | Lawrence Trent / Efstratios Grivas |
| Saturday | 17.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Sunday | 18.11.2018 | Game 7 | Yannick Pelletier / Daniel Fernandez |
| Monday | 19.11.2018 | Game 8 | Yannick Pelletier / Wesley So |
| Tuesday | 20.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Wednesday | 21.11.2018 | Game 9 | Erwin l'Ami / David Navara |
| Thursday | 22.11.2018 | Game 10 | Erwin l'Ami / Sam Shankland |
| Friday | 23.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Saturday | 24.11.2018 | Game 11 | Lawrence Trent / Boris Gelfand |
| Sunday | 25.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Monday | 26.11.2018 | Game 12 | Erwin l'Ami / Wesley So |
| Tuesday | 27.11.2018 | Rest day | |
| Wednesday | 28.11.2018 | Tiebreak | Yannick Pelletier / Daniel Fernandez |
