Page 42 - Daniel King News Today

An Eastbourne company has donated £3,500 to the local RNLI crew ahead of Christmas.

The King's Gambit continues to pose puzzles. The opening evokes memories of glorious sacrificial games from the romantic era, but at the same time it is regarded as somewhat unsound — as theoretically incorrect. But even today the move 2.f4 after 1.e4 e5 leads again and again to unusual positions rich in content. As the games of King’s Gambit expert Joe Gallagher demonstrate!

ChessBase is launching a unique NFT series of the world chess champions, united with their iconic games and moves that have made history in their sublime beauty. Each NFT is authorized by the player himself. A font specially designed for this series allows historical portraits and private photographs to merge with the moves. Behind the notation, the key position of a very famous game appears in 3D ray tracing technology from ChessBase. Alternating with this is an intense portrait of the world ch...

In light of recent events GM Daniel King looks back over World Championship mistakes and blunders. The selection is plentiful, and it wasn't just the old guys making errors. The first example comes from the Steinitz-Chigorin match of 1892, the last is from Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi, and there is much in between. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

There’s no sense in resorting to Amazon when all these incredible independent shops are just a subway ride away.

A contractor has been fined $13,500 for failing to get required permits before building shoreline walls in front of four Lake Huron properties.

London Concrete, part of Aggregate Industries, has successfully completed a week-long continuous slipform pour after delivering 3300 cubic metres of ECOPact low-carbon concrete over seven days for SSE and joint-venture partner CIP, for a new energy-from-waste (EfW) project, Slough Multifuel.

In this week’s show, GM Daniel King looks at games from Viktor Kupreichik (3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017), a brillant and imaginative attacking player who was never afraid to sacrifice. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

ChessBase Magazine offers a window to the world of professional chess and it also provides arsenal for the tournament player. CBM #204 contains 1226 games (26 annotated), 9 opening surveys, lectures and exercises for training. Annotators include Peter Heine Nielsen, Alireza Firouzja, Romain Edouard and Anish Giri, to mention a few. The icing on the cake is the Judit Polgar Special, a tribute to the former child prodigy who crossed swords with the best of them all, from Kasparov to Carlsen. Ou...

Daniel Glick Beiler, 52, and Daniel King Beiler, 25, sexually assaulted two young children on multiple occasions between 2007 and 2017, prosecutors say.