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Daniel John King (born 28 August 1963) is an English
chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
grandmaster, writer,
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, journalist and broadcaster.


Chess career

King achieved the
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title in 1982 and the Grandmaster title in 1989. He won minor tournaments around the world and recorded promising results at some prestigious events, for example 4th= at Bern 1987, 4th= British Championship 1987, 1st= (with
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) at the Sydney Open 1988, 5th= London 1988, 2nd= Dortmund 1988 and 2nd (after
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) London 1989. At the Geneva Young Masters in 1990, he shared first place with the Australian Ian Rogers. King later pursued a media career as presenter, commentator, reporter and analyst, and this likely affected his playing career by limiting the opportunity for dedicated research and study. Nevertheless, he has played professionally for more than 20 years at a high level, including the top leagues of the
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and
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. In 1996, he won the
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Masters, an Irish tournament with an impressive list of previous winners, including
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,
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and
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. King represented England at the
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(Haifa 1989) and at the Reykjavik
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Chess Summit of 1990, the latter being the scene of a victory over the strong Soviet team and a team silver medal. King is usually known as 'Dan' or 'Danny'. He has coached some of the UK's brightest chess prospects and has written more than 15 chess books on topics ranging from the preparatory ''Winning with the Najdorf'' to the self-tutoring ''How Good is your Chess'' and ''Test Your Chess''.


Media interests

He became well known nationally for his coverage of the
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, live from the Savoy in London, on
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television. The programme, hosted by
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, contained expert commentary and analysis from King,
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and ''
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'', the chess-playing computer program. The show was popular, showing King to be a likeable, media-friendly personality. It was reported that he had become the choice of 'thinking women' across the UK, as they watched in large numbers, whether chess-literate or not. Television work continued to come his way and he contributed to three further world championships broadcast by the
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,
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,
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and other networks. He covered the controversial '' Kasparov versus Deep Blue'' match in 1997 and, for four months in 1999, provided daily
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commentary on the high-profile ''
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'' game. In October 2002, he was a key member of the elite analytical team engaged in the prominent 'man versus machine' contest, ''
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''. King was a games consultant for the
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(
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) show ''Moment of Truth''. He scripted and presented two half-hour chess documentaries on radio and has, over many years, produced instructional chess videos and DVDs for GM Video and ChessBase, among others. In the mid-1990s he appeared in the UK advertising campaign for
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cars. King writes regular columns in '' CHESS magazine'' ("How Good Is Your Chess?") and ''Schach 64'', the leading journals of the UK and Germany (he speaks German fluently). From 2006 to 2012, he co-hosted a regular Monday chess column with
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in
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, which sought to be instructive, rather than topical. Through test positions taken from actual games, their amateur and expert assessments of the possible continuations were discussed and compared.
Nigel Short Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach, and commentator, who is the vice-president of FIDE since October 2018. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the w ...
's column was axed to make way for the style-shift, and this change was debated in chess circles. Since 2010, King has served as a main commentator/presenter at ChessBase and has hosted the commentary at the
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tournament. He runs the PowerPlayChess Youtube Channel which is regularly updated with new chess-related content including chess puzzles and analysis of high-level games. In 2016, chess historian Edward Winter ranked him as one of the top six English-language internet chess commentators on major matches and tournaments. He lives in
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, in the
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.


Selected bibliography

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Notes


References

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External links

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Ronan Bennett and Daniel King on chess
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