Daniel King (chess player)

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Daniel King, 2006
Surname Daniel John King
Association EnglandEngland England
Born August 28, 1963
Beckenham , United Kingdom
title International Master (1982)
Grand Master (1989)
Current  Elo rating 2466 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2560 (July 1990)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Daniel John King (born August 28, 1963 in Beckenham ) is an English chess grandmaster , chess trainer and chess author.

Life

Daniel King was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1982 , then the title of Grand Master in 1989 .
He headed the chess column in the British daily newspaper The Guardian and runs the YouTube channel PowerPlayChess .

King has not played any rated games since the Four Nations Chess League 2009/10 , which was evaluated in July 2010, and is therefore listed as inactive by FIDE.

For ChessBase and Spiegel Online he comments on the world championship duels and the candidates tournaments (in German, which he speaks very well).

Team chess

National team

King took part in 1989 with the English team in the European team championship .

Club chess

Daniel King and Alexander Khalifman, Bundesliga 1998/99

In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) King played in the 1993/94 season for the winner Invicta Knights Maidstone , from 1994 to 1997 for Na Fianna and from 1997 to 2010 for Guildford A&DC (where he played in the seasons 1997/98 and 2002 / 03 played no game), with whom he won the 4NCL in 2004 , 2007 and 2008 .

From 1999 to 2003, King played in the Swiss National League A for the Winterthur chess company .

In the German Federal Chess League he played from 1984 to 1987 at SC Kreuzberg and from 1993 to 2001 at SV Castrop-Rauxel .

Tournament successes

  • Bern 1987: 4th place
  • British Championship 1987: 4th place
  • London 1988: 5th place
  • Bern 1988: 2/3 space
  • Dortmund 1988: 2/3 space
  • London 1989: 2nd place
  • London WFW 1990: 3rd / 4th space
  • Geneva 1990: 1./2. space
  • Winterthur 1996: 2nd place
  • Bunratty 1996: 1st place

Publications

Web links

Commons : Daniel King  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80
  2. The Guardian's Chess Column
  3. [1]
  4. See, for example, “Interview with Chess Grandmaster Daniel King”. Hamburg 2017. March 15, 2017, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
  5. Daniel King's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. Dortmund Chess Days 1988 on TeleSchach (cross table)