EP.168 - FIDE Candidates Preview with GM Daniel King

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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With the highly anticipated FIDE Candidates tournament starting in a matter of days, I am honored to be joined by Grandmaster Daniel King to preview the tournament. GM King is well known for his accomplishments as a chess player, journalist and announcer. The videos on his YouTube channel, Powerplay Chess, are always a must-watch for me. GM King will be part of FIDE’s announcing team for this event, and we talked to him just days before he planned to leave for Yekaterinaburg, Russia for the tournament. We recorded this interview on Tuesday, March 10. Please read on for details and timestamps. 0:00- Intro. We set the scene for the FIDE Candidates Tournament and discuss the dramatic late entry of GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who is replacing GM Teimour Radjabov who withdrew from the tournament due to concerns about the Corona/Covid-19 virus. Mentioned: FIDE World Senior Team Championship: https://www.europechess.org/fide-world-senior-team-chess-championship-2020-starts-today/ 10:00- This episode is brought to you in part by Chessable! Check out GM Simon Williams brand new course “The Black Lion” here: https://www.chessable.com/the-black-lion/course/34040/ 12:00- The odds I listed for the Candidates come from Unibet UK, you can find them here (They have changed a bit since we recorded): https://www.unibet.co.uk/betting/sports/filter/chess/world_championship/candidates/all/competitions/1005917216 We discuss the individual Candidates in the following order: 13:00- GM Kirill Alekseenko Mentioned: GM Ali Firouzja 16:23- GM Fabiano Caruana 19:00- GM Anish Giri 23:20- GM Alexander Grischuk Mentioned: Chess24’s Candidates 2020 A Preview: https://chess24.com/en/learn/advanced/video/candidates-2020-a-preview/candidates-2020-intro GM Peter Svidler 26:15- GM Wang Hao Mentioned: Chessbase India’s IM Sagar Shah interviews Wang Hao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_elqkx-IgI 30:30 GM Ding Liren 34:30- GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 39:00- GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Mentioned: UEFA Euro 1992 Final: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_1992_Final, GM Etienne Bacrot 45:00- Thanks so much to Daniel King for joining the show. You can watch the FIDE Broadcast with GMs King, Judit Polgar and Evgeni Miroschenko beginning on March 15 here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ Subscribe to GM King’s PowerPlayChess here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMBATpFb--uLNAODOVWvCTA Support GM King via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/powerplaychess/posts If you would like to support Perpetual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/perpetualchessual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/perpetualchess See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, I'm Ben Johnson and this is the Perpetual Chess podcast.
0:07.9	On perpetual chess, I have weekly conversations with chess players, personalities, authors,
0:12.2	and adult improvers about their lives, their careers, and about chess improvement.
0:16.5	Perpetual Chess is brought to you through the generosity of its Patreon and PayPal supporters.
0:21.4	For more information, go to perpetual chesspod.com.
0:27.8	Hey, everyone, welcome back to perpetual chess.
0:30.8	We have an exciting guest for you this week talking about an exciting event.
0:34.8	But first of all, I wanted to apologize that this is coming out a little late this week.
0:39.1	But I think it'll be worth it as you'll hear why in a minute.
0:42.7	Another thing, we're going to do a rare two-part episode.
0:45.9	So in this episode, my guest and I will be discussing one of the biggest events of the chess year,
0:51.3	as we'll introduce in a minute.
0:53.7	And then we'll, this guest, of course, Daniel King, as you saw in the title description,
0:58.7	has a varied career with a lot to talk about beyond that.
1:02.4	So what we'll do is we'll have him back in a matter of weeks to discuss the rest of his career.
1:08.7	But for this one, he's been doing an excellent series on his
1:11.1	very popular YouTube channel, Power Play Chess, previewing the candidates. He is jetting off to
1:16.6	A. Katerinaberg for the tournament itself to be one of the announcers. And of course,
1:22.8	beyond that, he's a well-known author, YouTube presenter, announcer, journalist, Grandmaster.
1:30.3	He's won some tournaments in his day, of course, co-first in the Sydney Open champion of the Bonradi Masters,
1:36.0	and now he is joining us on the show.
1:38.0	Grandmaster Daniel King, thank you for coming on.
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