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kingscrusher
Member since Apr-12-04 · Last seen Oct-18-25

I have created quite a few Chess Courses and you can have great discounts using the following page: https://kingscrusher.tv
Please share with friends this course page :)
I am "Tryfon Gavriel" officially on Chessgames.com's database:
Tryfon C Gavriel
and have played a few interesting games thankfully in my time so far :)
FIDE "Candidate Master" (CM)
British "Regional Master"
Ex-National UK Lloyds Bank National Under 18 champion in 1989
?Challenge me for a chess game: https://kingscrusher.tv
?Join my Discord: https://kingscrusher.tv/discord
?Quora: https://quora.com/profile/Tryfon-Ga...
?Youtube: https://youtube.com/kingscrusher
?Twitch: https://twitch.tv/kingscrusher
My Playlist overview structure page:
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
My Greatest Hit Chess Videos! : http://tinyurl.com/6vvx6qe
I do a popular youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/kingscrusher - where I am currently trying to do a regular series of instructive games. I sometimes post links to those video annotations on the relevant games here. Please use the "Subscribe" button on my channel page to keep notified of new ones.
Played in the main British Chess Championship twice now, scoring 4.5 and 5 respectively (out of 11 - it is tough!).
I have created various video annotation grouping pages, which may be of interest for you to check out:
Evolution of style
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Candidate move system
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Learn from Kasparov
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Learn from Fischer
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Pawn structures
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Live commentaries
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Opening Traps
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Puzzles
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Brilliances
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
Instructive Games
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
JessicaFischerQueen channel at : -
http://www.youtube.com/user/jessica...
has kindly done some playlists which I have put on this key page for World champions, Uncrowned Kings and other very interesting players :
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub...
As well as watching my videos, you may also like to try correspondence style chess with a web interface. You can do so atwww.chessworld.net. This has a "Videos" menu with the above links and more.
I'm not named Kingscrusher for nothing. I learned chess at the age of 5 and have been addicted every since. It was through watching my father playing against my brother that I picked up the game.
My other hobbies watching the latest films, Computing, going out, seeing friends, watching TV.
The answer to life, the universe and everything was forty-two according the the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. But maybe for chess players it should be 64!!
When i was nearly 18, I managed to win the UK LLoyds bank Under 18 championship! In later years I attained a FIDE rating through the Lloyds bank Masters tournaments and through other tournaments such as Surrey and all play alls organised through Adam Raoof. Currently FIDE rated 2177. My BCF grading has been fluctuating over the years and is currently about 185 BCF, and I am play for Board 1 for both Barnet chess club and Muswell Hill chess club. My full chess cv can be found here:-
(sorry for the use of Wayback machine!)
https://web.archive.org/web/2019081...
In 2008, I finally qualified for the British Chess Championship by coming 2nd= at the Southend Open tournament with an ECF 206 performance.
University- I studied computing in business and obtained a 2:1 honours degree

My life advice is: have fun and enjoy life to the maximum! - I hope that chessworld.net helps in this goal! :-))))

>> Click here to see kingscrusher's game collections.

   kingscrusher has kibitzed 4138 times to chessgames [more...]

   Oct-17-25 Botvinnik vs Petrov, 1940

kingscrusher: 32...Nf8 makes a nice checkmate puzzle: [DIAGRAM]

   Oct-17-25 Botvinnik vs Ragozin, 1940

kingscrusher: I guess that even if these Botvinnik games with his training partner are largely "rigged" - they make for instructive games with "instructive mistakes" if Ragozin may not have been putting 100% determination to play as best as he could.

   Oct-15-25 Botvinnik vs I Kan, 1939

kingscrusher: <Zanyarqadir> It seems Qc2 just forces checkmate (black wins here)- better than taking a draw: [DIAGRAM]

   Oct-15-25 Botvinnik vs Panov, 1939

kingscrusher: I think Botvinnik kind of has a more advanced Silman Opening "imbalance theory". He likes openings with imbalances but in this form: Imbalance theory modification: He can have what seems to be unfavourable stuff, but as long as they are not exploitable. So having quite often ...

   Oct-14-25 Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1938

kingscrusher: Botvinnik the Bulldozer at work!

   Oct-14-25 Botvinnik vs V Makogonov, 1938

kingscrusher: Nice c-file authority shown here.

   Oct-12-25 Botvinnik vs Vidmar, 1936

kingscrusher: Great exploitation of the light square bishop without a counterpart. Not helped also by the wrong knight recapture. 16...Nfxd5 should have been played because in some variations black then has f6 to kick the e5 knight.

   Oct-12-25 Botvinnik vs T Tylor, 1936

kingscrusher: Nice exploitation of passed pawn and opposite colored bishops don't help black.

   Oct-08-25 G Lisitsin vs Botvinnik, 1933

kingscrusher: 12.Nxh7 is a big advantage to White: Georgy Lisitsin - Mikhail Botvinnik 0-1 1.0, Leningrad Masters 1933 [DIAGRAM] Analysis by Stockfish 17.1: 1. +- (2.17): 12...Qf7 13.Nxf8 Kxf8 14.Bh6+ Ke8 15.Qg4 Na6 16.Rf1 d6 17.Qh4 Qg8+ 18.Kf2 Be6 19.Kg1 Kd7 20.Qxf6 Qh7 21.Bg5 Bc4 22.Rf2

   Oct-07-25 G Lisitsin vs Botvinnik, 1932

kingscrusher: I think I am starting to get it. Botvinnik has a good role model for planning as in "mini-plans" because he makes the positions stable first - and often that involves a bind. Here is this game, first a bind on the d pawn. Then the e-pawn. Then mini-plan after mini-plan until ...

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Evolution of Chess Style

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Dec-29-12		Tiggler: <kingcrusher> Thanks for your video of World v Akobian. You did a great job. To have brought it out so fast after the conclusion of the game, I guess you must have been following its progress. Were you signed on as a member of World Team, to see the ongoing analysis and arguments?

Dec-31-12		Annie K.: Happy New Year, <Tryfon>! :)

Jan-01-13		cormier: Happy New Year ... tks G

Jan-04-13		jessicafischerqueen: Happy New Year to you too <Tryfon>!

Jan-06-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Tryfon> here is <Sultan Khan> playlist: "Kingscrusher annotates brilliancies from the Indian Master Mir Sultan Khan, who appeared on the British chess scene in the 1930s and astonished the world by racking up several British Championships and beating world class opposition, notably JR Capablanca, Saloman Flohr, Akiva Rubinstein, and many others." http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Jan-12-13		kingscrusher: Thanks Jessica - I will start putting that link on his games. Cheers, K

Jan-16-13		ShahMaat: ....i learned this game at the tender age of nine.Now i am 66..following these great gm's...i feel like a chicken looking up at circling hawks in the blue heavens.

Jan-16-13		Xaurus: kingscrusher, TCEC is back! Should start within a week or so. http://www.tcec-chess.net

Jan-17-13		morfishine: Hello <kingscrusher>! Excellent video on Aronian vs Anand 2013. You mentioned 13.Bxh7+ as an alternative for White. I concur and feel this move is superior to 13.Nxh7. Here are my thoughts on this move posted at the game: Aronian vs Anand, 2013 Note: Engine-testing is needed for final confirmation Best, Morf

Feb-20-13		notyetagm: <Kingcrusher: ... With your permission please may I use other examples from your loose piece collection in other future videos?!> But of course. Use anything from my game collections that you find useful.

Feb-21-13		kingscrusher: <notyetagm:> Thank you so much - there are some members like yourself with a truly amazing and awesome collection of game collections - these really help bring key examples to themes, or provide context to things like Tournaments - thank you so much. Cheers, K

Feb-21-13		notyetagm: B Amin vs A Muir, 2013 <frogbert: yeah, i missed 16. Nxe5! when i made my premature comment on 14. f5 tactics are tricky! you need to get both the idea and the right move order... ;o)> A fantastic explanation of the tactical oversight made by GM Amin can be found here -> http://www.chessscotland.com/forum/....

Jun-21-13		TheSlid: Hi <Tryfon> I thought i should say hello here, as a mark of respect, at least. Have been a big fan of your channel for some time and have seen it as the most entertaining source of updates on the current chess scene. Not to mention the live 5 minute games - a sort of Cassaic Tom and Jerry - basic, funny and true to life. Innovative stuff.

Jun-21-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Tryfon> New cg.com Historical Tournaments feature?! People can kibbutz on these pages. I just added your analysis of rounds 1-5 of the great <Nottingham 1936> tournament here: Nottingham (1936) Here is the Historical Tournaments page- you can browse this amazing list for historical tournaments from the 19th century up to the present day: Tournament Index

Jun-21-13		TheFocus: <jess> Get over to Game Collection Voting. We have a Fischer tournament nominated. <Buenos Aires 1970>.

Jun-21-13		jessicafischerqueen: lol <The Focus> tracking me down. I just voted for two of them, but it appears you voted "Nay" for the first one? Do you want me to kill it? Possibly you might post an answer in my forum. This is the <MIGHTY KING CRUSHER> forum.

Jul-09-13		kingscrusher: Jessica this is brilliant news for historians - we can now kibitz on these historical tournaments I have added some video annotation links to the special Yugoslavia Candidates tournament of 1959 - which Tal won to be able to challenge Botvinnik: Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959) Great stuff

Jul-21-13		kingscrusher: Behold this amazing finding! Bd2! winning by force and not documented anywhere in this classic Fischer game where Fischer instead played Qxa2 and got a lucky break when Keres blundered horrifically with Bb5 ?? Keres vs Fischer, 1959

Aug-28-13		Annie K.: Happy Birthday, <Tryfon>! :)

Oct-09-13		MarkFinan: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMC8f... Hi, KC... Just watched your video, posted above, and I wandered what interface you use? Is it just me or do you also think that it's easier to see a game a lot clearer on certain GUI's? (That is what they're called, right? I'm completely computer illiterate!) ✌

Oct-22-13		kingscrusher: <MarkFinan:> I have commercial usage permission from Chessbase to make use of Chessbase for videos on Youtube. It is the Chessbase client software. Cheers, K

Oct-29-13		DcGentle: <kingscrusher>: I must say, I enjoy all your videos, very nice. As a little thank you I posted a PGN text about the escape of Fontane in R Fontaine vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2007 . Thanks again! Ģ

Nov-06-13		talisman: <kingcrusher> will you be doing videos of the upcoming match? I really enjoy your videos. also, I was watching your botvinnik Bronstein series but could not find part 3. thanks in advance.

Nov-10-13		kingscrusher: My World championship 2013 Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Cheers, K

Nov-12-13		kingscrusher: My first ever Chessbase article: "WCh Chennai: it's all about style" http://www.chessbase.com/post/wch-c... Hope you like it Cheers, K

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