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Perpetual Chess Podcast

EP.170 GM Daniel King Returns

Perpetual Chess Podcast

Perpetual Chess LLC

Sports, Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Two weeks after Part 1 of our interview GM Daniel King returns. We catch up on the all of the drama surrounding the first 6 rounds of the FIDE Candidates Tournament, both over the board, and away from the board, as the spread of the Covid-19 virus continues to be an unwelcome, but serious disruption to some wonderful chess games. Following the Candidates discussion, GM King updates us on the many other projects that have been keeping him busy, including a discussion of his forthcoming book, Sultan Khan: The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire. Please read for many more details and timestamps relating to this fun and wide-ranging conversation. If you are not seeing embedded hyperlinks in your podcast feed, you can find them here: https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/2020/3/24/episode-170-gm-daniel-king-returns 0:00-  We begin by discussing the FIDE Candidates. Why did Daniel cancel his plans to announce at the tournament, why didn’t FIDE call it off? Should/will they call it off now? And last but not least, what does GM King think of the chess so far?  Mentioned: GM Teimour Radjabov, Powerplay Chess, GM Jesse Kraii for Chess Dojo, GM Jacob Aagaard for US Chess, Giri-Nepomniatchi 2020 20:00- We discuss GM King’s forthcoming book, Sultan Khan: The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire. Daniel gives a bit of background about how he became enthralled by this story, and a taste of what we can read about in this book. Free excerpts of the book are available via New in Chess Magazine, and New in Chess Publishing.  Mentioned: Sultan Khan-Capablanca 1930, Sultan Khan-Tartakower Match, GM Daniel King’s Patreon page, GM Viswanathan Anand, GM Maia Chiburdanidze  40:55- This episode is brought to you in part by Chessable. Links for GM Harikrishna’s Game of the Day Analysis and Candidates Course and the Candidates sale are below: Candidates Course- https://www.chessable.com/candidates-2020/course/34649/ Candidates Sale- https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/all/offer/ 41:30- Daniel tackles a couple questions from a Patreon supporter of the podcast, relating to how he learned to speak German, and to the philosophy behind Powerplay Chess, Daniel’s excellent YouTube channel.  Mentioned: Daniel King’s Powerplay DVD’s from Chessbase, GM Alexander Morezevich, GM Nigel Short, GM Ruslan Ponamariov, GM Jan Gustafsson, GM Baskiran Adhiban  54:30- GM King discusses another project he has been busy assisting, a forthcoming Chessable course called Tournament Ready, by Alex and Sarah Longson.  Mentioned: IM Mike Basman, FM Alex Longson, WFM Sarah Longson  58:00- GM King shares some chess study advice for those who are stuck at home with extra time on their hands.  1:02- Daniel shares some stories about one of his other passions- playing music.  Mentioned: Geert van der Velde of Chessable, Juga on Jenn Shahade’s Ladies Knight Podcast  1:10- Thanks to GM King for coming back on the show! All the links you need to keep up with him are below  Youtube channel, Powerplay Chess: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMBATpFb--uLNAODOVWvCTA GM King’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielKingChess If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, 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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Hey, everyone, welcome back to perpetual chess. We are again going to release this just a

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tiny bit late, but it is for a good cause. Once again, as promised, we have rejoining us on the

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podcast. The esteemed grandmaster, author, broadcaster, and popular YouTube

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presenter, Daniel, how are you holding up? I'm doing really well. I'm back. I'm at home.

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Yes, yes. I'm doing really well. And actually kind of enjoying the spring weather.

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And, of course, you know, I mean, London and, well, the country is now basically in some kind of lockdown.

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But it's nice to be home, I can tell you.

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Yeah, absolutely crazy times.

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We're recording this on March 24th, 2020.

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Two weeks after our last interview and it feels like an eternity, Daniel. Well, yeah, and at that time when we recorded that, I was set to go off to

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Yeraterinburg in a few days after that and as a commentator there. And, you know, I was still determined to go.

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And basically, with a day to go on the Friday, I pulled the plug one day before I was due

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