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Lasker's Manual of Chess (With 306 Diagrams) by Emanuel Lasker, 1927 LASKER'S HOW TO PLAY CHESS by Emanuel (introduction by W. H. Watts) Lasker, 1975 Lasker's How To Play Chess - by Emanuel Lasker -, 1000 Lasker's How to play chess by Emanuel Lasker, 1965 LASKER'S HOW TO PLAY CHESS by Emanuel Lasker, 1965 Lasker's How To Play Chess; An Elementary Text Book for Beginnners... by Emanuel LASKER, 1970 Lasker's How To Play Chess (An Elementary Text Book for Beginners) by Emanuel Lasker, 1976 Lasker's How to Play Chess by Lasker Emanuel, 1941 Lasker's How to Play Chess :An Elementary Text Book for Beginners, Which Teaches Chess By a New, Easy and Comprehensive Method by Emanuel with W. H. Watts Lasker, 1970 Lasker's How to Play Chess by Emanuel Lasker , 1962-01-01 Lasker's Chess Primer by Emanuel Lasker, 1934 Struggle by Emanuel Lasker, 1907-01-01 Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker, 1944 Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker, 1965-01-01

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81. E.Lasker - W.Steinitz, Moscow, 1896/97
    Player, Fed, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, Sc. lasker, emanuel, Germany, 1,1, 1, 1, 1/2, 1, 1/2, 1/2, 1/2, 1, 1, 0, 7. Player, Fed, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Sc. lasker,emanuel, Germany, 0, 1, 1/2, 1, 1, 10.  
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82. Staatskanzlei: Konferenz Anlässlich Des 60. Todestages Von Emanuel Lasker
    Translate this page Todestages von emanuel lasker. Rede von Ministerpräsident Manfred Stolpe zur Eröffnungder Konferenz anlässlich des 60. Todestages von emanuel lasker am 12.  
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83. Exzelsior Verlag, Zeitschrift Schach
    Translate this page emanuel lasker. Von Dr. Michael Dreyer. lasker (Berlinchen 24.12.1868- 11.1.1941 New York), hat als zweiter offizieller und einziger  
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84. Powell's Books - Lasker S Manual Of Chess By Emanuel Lasker
    lasker S Manual of Chess by emanuel lasker. Find out how. ISBN 0486206408 Authorlasker, E. Author lasker, emanuel Publisher Dover Publications, Inc.  
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85. Hardinge Simpole - Emanuel Lasker: Chess Colossus
    emanuel lasker Chess Colossus The Life and Games of a Chess Master emanuel laskerheld the World Chess Championship for a record period from 18941921.  
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    Extractions: The Life and Games of a Chess Master By Hannak, Jacques ISBN 1843821397 SERIES Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics Paperback 232 pages Subject [ Chess Chess - Tournaments Published 30 April, 2004 UK Price Order from amazon.co.uk US Price Order from amazon.com First published in 1959. With a foreword by Albert Einstein . Emanuel Lasker held the World Chess Championship for a record period from 1894-1921. During this time he dominated his contemporaries in elite events such as St Petersburg 1896, London 1899, Paris 1900 and St Petersburg again in 1914. He won numerous matches against such greats as Steinitz, Marshall, Janowski and Tarrasch, as well as defending his title in a drawn match against Schlechter. This account of Lasker's life and games reads like a novel - how as a young man he fought his way to the world title while still in his twenties, how he survived the First World War and the later Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany, and how Lasker emerged at over 60 years of age to once again carve out a career for himself amongst the hungry young lions of world chess. Lasker is one of the all time chess greats and this gripping book does full justice to his achievements. The author Dr Jacques Hannak was a German expert and chess author of the first half of the 20th century. He was also responsible for a biography of Steinitz. The translation into English is by Heinrich Fraenkel, the endgame study enthusiast, who wrote a regular column for the

86. Jaced.com
    emanuel lasker (18681941). lasker was a brilliant man. emanuel s olderbrother, Berthold lasker, taught emanuel chess at the age of 11.  
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    Extractions: Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) Lasker was a brilliant man. A mathematician and Chess World Champion. He was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1868, in Brandenburg, Germany. One of my favorite music pieces is Johannes Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Emanuel's older brother, Berthold Lasker, taught Emanuel chess at the age of 11. In 1889 in Breslau, at the age of 21, Emanuel won the German title of Master of Chess. But, most important, it was he that introduced the two-bishop sacrifice . This is the earliest example of that great chess strategy! Only Five years later, in 1894, Lasker challenged Steinitz for the World Chess Championship. Lasker won! He was to remain the World Chess Champion until 1921. The great chess player Steinitz who had been World Champion for 28 years was famous for his introduction of strategy to chess. Lasker is most famous for seeing that chess is a struggle between two minds. In practicing that theorem he smashed Steinitz, Pillsbury and Tchigorin. But before that, Lasker had terrific results. In 1890 in Berlin, he defeated Curt von Bardeleben and Jacques Mieses in a match and he and his brother tied for first place in a tournament as well.

87. A King In Modest Clothing, Or, Substance Over Style By Taylor
    A King in Modest Clothing, or, Substance Over Style by Taylor Kingston The CollectedGames of emanuel lasker, by Ken Whyld, 1998 The Chess Player, Hardcover  
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    Extractions: resource.A King in Modest Clothing, or, Substance Over Style by Taylor Kingston The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker, by Ken Whyld, 1998 The Chess Player, Hardcover, Figurine Algebraic Notation, 229pp., $33.90. A certain trend in chess scholarship and publishing seems very evident these days: the attempt to amass every known game ever played by noteworthy masters, with publication as the natural outcome once the collection is deemed as complete as possible. In the last few years, massive compilations of the games of Adolf Anderssen, Wilhelm Steinitz, Harry Pillsbury, Rudolf Charousek, J. R. Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Paul Keres, and Bobby Fischer, to name only the more prominent players, have appeared. While the subjects of these books generally played very-good-to- great chess, the quality of the books themselves has varied tremendously, ranging from the cheaply produced and laughably bad (e.g. Charuchin's on Charousek) to the extremely impressive (Skinnner and Verhoeven's on Alekhine). At first glance, The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker seemed unfortunately closer to the lower end of this wide spectrum. The Chess Player series "Masters of Chess", of which this is the sixth, has consisted generally of small books of undistinguished appearance and less-than-best binding, practically glorified pamphlets. That was perhaps fitting, as until now they have dealt with relatively lesser or at best near-great masters (Vajda, Nagy, Havasi, Teichmann, Duras). In contrast, Lasker (1868-1941) was a truly monumental figure in the history of chess. He had the longest official reign (1894-1921) of any world champion, demonstrated an almost absolute supremacy circa 1896-1914, remained among the world's ten best well into the 1930s, and is among the top half- dozen on most "all-time greatest" lists (and #1 on some). To dress the games of this chessic Caesar in such humble trappings seemed almost an act of lese majeste. However, Lasker was a scholar who valued substance over form, and it might well have pleased him to be represented by this modest-looking but surprisingly substantial volume. A careful reading shows that Briton Ken Whyld, one of the game's most respected writers (he was co-author of The Oxford Companion to Chess), has packed a good deal of information in a small space. There are 1383 games (1390 had been intended, but the scores of seven known to be played in the period 1890-92 could not be found). This may seem a low total compared to the recent compilations of Keres (1,944 games) or Alekhine (2,543), but keep in mind that Lasker played relatively little, several times refraining from serious chess for years (1902-03, 1911-13, 1926-33). It is a substantial increase over what is available on CD-ROM databases, e.g. the Ultimate Game Collection III has only 680 Lasker entries among its 1.1 million. Whyld's collection begins with an offhand game of uncertain date played by the young student Lasker at a Berlin cafe, and ends with Lasker-Marshall, New York, May 1940, about 8 months before Lasker's death. In between is found everything available on him, including early Haupturnieren (candidate master tournaments), offhand games, odds and simul games, even four draughts (checkers) games, plus of course all of Lasker's legendary tournament triumphs, such as St. Petersburg 1895-6, Nuremberg 1896, London 1899, Paris 1900, St. Petersburg 1914, and New York 1924, and world title matches against Steinitz, Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowsky, Schlechter, and Capablanca. What distinguishes Whyld's work here (besides of course the effort of compilation) are his brief but illuminating comments, and the consistent presentation of cross-tables. The latter are given not only for major events, but also for the minor ones, such as a small 1890 Graz tournament (won by Makovetz, with Lasker 3rd), an 1889-90 match with Mieses (won by Lasker +5 =3 -0), or even an insignificant quad at Trenton Falls, New York, 1906, against the obscure threesome of Curt, Fox, and Raubitschek. The crosstables provide context, and help order what might otherwise be an amorphous mass. The comments, though for the most part laconically terse, nevertheless provide significant details. For example "[In 1892] Lasker was engaged by the Manhattan CC to play a series of 3 serious games against each of 8 leading members. The 24 games were crucial in establishing his standing in the USA." While a fuller narrative would have been desirable, between the games, the crosstables, and Whyld's comments, certain story lines can be deduced. For example, even without having read the Lasker biography by Hannak, one can see clearly that, one, Lasker came to America in 1892 with the intention of playing anyone who was anyone in New World chess, and two, he was spectacularly successful at it, scoring +21 -2 =1 in the aforementioned Manhattan CC series, +2 -0 =1 and +3 -0 =0 respectively against Cuban masters C. Golmayo and V squez, +6 -2 =1 against Kentuckian Jackson Showalter, and a clean +13 -0 =0 sweep at New York 1893 (a field which included Albin, Showalter and Pillsbury). While few of these games are short, one senses that Lasker did not have to exert himself. He also shows flashes of the depth and originality that came to characterize his play, as in this game from the Manhattan CC series: G. Simonson - Em. Lasker, 10/25/1892: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bg5 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. 0-0 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dc6 7. de5 Nf5 8. Qe2 Nd4 9. Nxd4 Qxd4 10. Nc3 Bg4 11. Qe3 Qxe3 12. Bxe3 0-0-0 13. a3 h6 14. b4 Be7 15. Rab1 Bf5 16. Rb2 b6 17. Ne2 Kb7 - Beginning an interesting maneuver with the king. 18. Nd4 Bc8 19. c4 c5 20. Nf3 Kc6 21. Nd2 Be6 22. bc5 Bxc5 23. Bxc5 Kxc5! Despite the potentially dangerous pieces still in play, Lasker's king is going to march into the center of the board and take everything that's not nailed down. 24. a4 Rd3 25. h3 Rhd8 26. Ne4+ Kxc4 27. Rc1+ Kd4 28. Rb4+ Kxe5 29. Rxc7 a5 - Lasker must have foreseen this killing rejoinder several moves earlier. 30. Rxb6 Kxe4 31. Rb5 R8d5 32. Ra7 Rxb5 33. ab5 Rb3 34. Rxa4 Bc4, 0- 1. Lest the reader think Simonson was a fish, his historical Elo is estimated at 2430. Lasker's dominance in this American tour shows that he was clearly playing already at a 2600+ level. A quick perusal of the crosstables in CGEL shows that dominance was the basic theme of most of Lasker's career. He had a knack for winning streaks unlike anything seen until Alekhine in the early 1930s or Fischer in the 1970s, scoring for example 5 straight wins over Steinitz during their 1894 world title match and +7 =4 to start their 1896 rematch, going +20 -1 =7 at London 1899 to win by 4« points, starting +4 -1 in his 1908 title match with Tarrasch, going +8 -0 =7 against Marshall in 1907, +15 -1 =5 in two tilts with Janowsky over 1909-10, and +6 -0 =2 against 4 all-time greats in the finals of St. Petersburg 1914. This dominance is not evident in the games from simultaneous exhibitions, which (I would estimate) constitute close to half of CGEL's total. Here we see an unusual number of Lasker losses and draws, but as Whyld notes in his introduction, "the master can be generous in order to foster public relations." We see that clearly here in a simul game against a young schoolboy. Lasker-J. E. Randell, Brooklyn, 11/20/1907: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 ef4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 d5 5. Bxd5 Nf6 6. Nc3 c6 7. Bc4 Ng4 8. Nh3 Ne5 9. Be2 Bxh3 10. gh3 Qxh3+ 11. Kf2 Be7 12. d4 Bh4+ 13. Kg1 f3, 0-1 A surprising position to find the world champion in after just 13 moves. Whyld also notes that with simuls, usually only a grandmaster's few losses and draws make it into print, and thus survive the decades, while his routine wins are lost to history. Not all of the simul games in CGEL are trivial, however. Aspiring greats-to-be such as the young Pillsbury, Reti, and Euwe were known to take boards. Here we see the future master, Hungarian Gyula Breyer at age 17. Lasker-Breyer, Budapest 01/26/1911: 1. e4 e5 2. d4 ed4 3. c3 - Playing a Danish Gambit, Lasker apparently wants to blow his young opponent away quickly. The idea backfires. 3. ... d5 4. ed5 Qxd5 5. cd4 Nf6 6. Nf3 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 0-0 8. Be2 Ne4 9. Bd2 Bxc3 10. bc3 Nc6 11. 0-0 Qa5 12. Qc2 Bf5 13. Bd3 Rfe8 14. Be1 Qd5 15. c4 Qd6 16. d5 Ne5 17. Bxe4 Nxf3+ 18. gf3 Qg6+ 19. Kh1 Rxe4! 20. Qc3 Rh4 21. Rg1 Rxh2+!, 0-1 (Black mates in 4). Did this game contribute to Breyer's later opinion that "After 1. e4 White's game is in its last throes!"? Whyld states that compilation of Lasker games presents certain problems. With his career beginning over 100 years ago, some early games are irrecoverably lost, while "Fate compensates in a malignant way by giving us spurious games which find their way into books and computer files." Among these are games by 4 similarly named players: Lasker's brother Berthold, his American cousin Edward Lasker (both of whom, like Emanuel, held the title "Doctor"), and two men named Laskar. Whyld has taken special care to weed these erroneously attributed games out. The book includes also 32 Lasker-composed problems and endgame studies, the usual ECO-code openings index, an index of opponents, Lasker's tournament and match record, a record of simultaneous displays, reproductions of some sketches, photographs, and other pictorial materials relating to Lasker (including even a Mongolian postage stamp) and of his 1920 letter to Capablanca, resigning the world title to him before their 1921 match. Be advised that there are absolutely no annotations, not so much as a "?", so when the reader arrives a position he may wonder why White played as he did, but for the analysis proving that, after each of the plausible moves White has, you're on your own. On the whole, I recommend The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker for anyone with any serious interest in this great player. Combined with Hannak's biography or other more narrative- oriented references it can provide a fairly good picture of this chess genius, and certainly as complete a picture as possible of his chess play. One cannot help but feel, however, as with the recent Paul Keres: Photographs and Games, that much more would be fitting. A recent posting to The Chess Cafe's bulletin board wondered at the lack of any new lengthy biographical treatments of Lasker since Hannak's 1952 work. I agree; if there is a market for the recent serious biographical efforts on, for example, Schlechter and Napier, good players but comparatively lesser figures, how could there not be one for Lasker? And it is past time that the overly reverential treatment of Lasker handed down from Hannak, and from Reuben Fine, should be balanced with contrary views. Their quasi-hagiographies are not without basis, but they are incomplete. One could, for example, write quite a hatchet-job based just on the Lasker-related material in Edward Winter's Capablanca. There also remains much unknown, or at least untouched on, for example what of Lasker's life in the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s? In short, a thorough, well-balanced, updated biography of Lasker has yet to be written. However, if and when it is, Whyld's Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker will be an absolutely essential

88. The Following Is An Excerpt From An Unpublished Manuscript By Hans
    Grandmasters I Have Known by Hans Kmoch emanuel lasker, Ph.D. (18681941) You recrazy! said Berthold to his younger brother, who had just remarked  
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    Extractions: The following is an excerpt from an unpublished manuscript by Hans Kmoch (1894-1973). Kmoch's career as a player, journalist, and arbiter brought him into contact with some of the greatest players of all time. We extend our thanks to Burt Hochberg, who owns the manuscript, for allowing us to publish this excerpt, which he has edited especially for The Chess Cafe. Grandmasters I Have Known by Hans Kmoch Emanuel Lasker, Ph.D. (1868-1941) "You're crazy!" said Berthold to his younger brother, who had just remarked nonchalantly that he might challenge Steinitz for the world championship. When Dr. Berthold Lasker told me that story much later in Berlin, the German word he used was "verrueckt," which means "mad" or "crazy." Well, we all know how "crazy" Emanuel Lasker was, so we can skip a few decades. One day early in 1934, while I was living in Amsterdam, I had to go to The Hague on business. There I encountered a man who, despite the mild weather, was dressed for the Arctic. It was Emanuel Lasker. I greeted him respectfully and we chatted for a while. After a few minutes he asked, "But who are you?" This was painfully embarrassing to me, since Lasker and I had been introduced by Frank Marshall back in 1925, during the great Moscow tournament. Other guests and I had spent many hours in Lasker's Moscow hotel room watching him cross-examine the analysts. I remember how he would repeatedly urge us to help ourselves to the big red apples copiously scattered around the room. On another occasion, Lasker and I were having lunch at the same table when he got into an argument with Reti, with whom he had never been on particularly friendly terms. The subject was Reti's blindfold play. "Would you say," Reti challenged, "that it has hurt my chess, as you have said it hurt Pillsbury's?" Lasker, furiously denying having said any such thing about Pillsbury, became so upset that he got up and left the table without touching his food, and that evening in the tournament made a terrific blunder against Torre and lost. Between 1925 and 1934 I met Lasker several more times, usually in Berlin. He used to tease me by calling me "Oestreicher" (one who crosses out o's) instead of "Oesterreicher" (Austrian). More than once he invited others and me to his home in the suburbs, and even though it was sometimes well after midnight Mrs. Lasker always received us with perfect good humor. After all that, it was disconcerting to be asked by Lasker who I was. (I learned later that Salo Flohr had twice had similar experiences with him.) I made no reference to the past but simply reintroduced myself, whereupon Lasker invited me for coffee at a nearby restaurant. There he spent a full hour explaining to me in great detail how he could make a Negro boy, fresh from darkest Africa, understand perfectly why minus-one multiplied by minus- one equals plus-one. "And that," he concluded, "is my opinion of National Socialism." Needless to say, it was difficult sometimes to follow Lasker's train of thought. The man who had been world champion from 1894 to 1921 lived as a refugee for a while in Holland, where Dutch friends gave him with a pension of about two hundred gulden a month. He was well paid for his chess columns in the leading Amsterdam newspaper, De Telegraaf, and he received one hundred gulden for each of his occasional chess exhibitions. At that time in Holland you could buy a decent meal in a good restaurant for one or two gulden, and a hundred gulden would be the normal monthly rent for an eight- room apartment. Obviously, Lasker was quite secure financially. And he was safe-to the limited extent that the kingdom of the Netherlands was itself safe considering the situation in Europe. In Holland Lasker played more bridge than chess. His regular partner was Landau, with whom he would often spend weekends in London playing bridge at a private club. They could afford those trips because a Dutch ship-owner had generously offered them passage free of charge. Lasker even got into the habit of referring to the boat as "our ship." But Lasker was not content in Holland. Possibly he had forebodings about the coming political crises; perhaps he expected that more should be done for him. He was not a greedy man, but he was very unrealistic in commercial matters. Jacques Mieses, who was a good businessman, told me about some of his experiences with Lasker. When Mieses was organizing a match for the world championship, Lasker demanded a fantastic fee, which he justified by saying that the organizing committee could rent a room large enough to accommodate five hundred spectators, who would buy tickets for ten marks each. This would bring in fifty thousand marks for each round! Mieses had considered the idea of publishing a chess magazine with Lasker but dropped the idea because he feared that Lasker might decide to buy a paper mill to save money on paper. Mieses told me that when the members of a small chess club in Holland invited Lasker to give an exhibition but apologized that they could not afford his fee of one hundred gulden, Lasker felt the entire nation of Holland had insulted him. In any case, Lasker's stay in Holland was never meant to be more than temporary, since he had come without his wife and had brought very little baggage. In 1935 he immigrated to the Soviet Union, taking his wife and all his movable possessions. He was graciously received in Moscow, where he and his family were able to get an apartment, complete with chambermaid, and where he was offered a professorship (probably in name only) at a university. Toward the end of 1935, when Lasker reappeared in Holland to report on the first world championship match between Alekhine and Euwe for Russian newspapers, he was full of praise for the style of living afforded him in the Soviet Union. But it was Lasker's misfortune to jump from one political windstorm into another. The murder of Kyrov in December 1934 touched off a purge that soon spread to the world of chess. Krylenko, a very high official in the Soviet government-his position was roughly equivalent to that of attorney general in the United States-had for many years been the most important government sponsor of chess in the Soviet Union, but now he was condemned as a traitor and executed. Yagov, the chief of police with whom Lasker had some connection, was also executed. So was General Goltz, a man well known in chess circles who in 1934 had once acted as my interpreter in Moscow. Lasker gave no indication of the discomfort he must have felt about these events, and during the tournament at Nottingham 1936 he simply avoided discussing conditions in the Soviet Union. He could hardly have been pleased, but public criticism would certainly have been viewed by his hosts as ungrateful. Once back in Moscow, he took steps to immigrate to the United States, which he justified by explaining that his stepdaughter, who lived in New York, wanted to be reunited with her mother, Lasker's wife. The Soviet authorities treated the Laskers with great consideration, taking care of all their expenses for the move from Moscow to New York. On his way to New York Lasker again stopped in Holland for a few days. This was around the time of the 1937 rematch between Alekhine and Euwe, perhaps a little later. It was the last time I saw him. In the United States Lasker was able to enjoy the political freedom he may have missed in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, he was forced to live on the brink of starvation while surrounded by millionaires. This situation lasted for some time. Mrs. Lasker, by this time an old woman, labored to earn a few dollars by preparing meals for a few patrons in her apartment. Lasker himself once horrified the famous bridge master Ely Culbertson by writing him a letter pleading for any sort of help. Emanuel Lasker was not only a great chessplayer but a great personality as well. His opinions and behavior could be eccentric, and, as Mieses and Landau both reported, he was quite impractical in business matters. A couple of grotesque examples of this were told to me in New York. Lasker used to give weekly lectures to a group of rich admirers, and he always selected some composed position for his subject. One day a listener respectfully suggested that he might care to say something about the openings. Lasker took this as an insult, immediately broke off and walked away, and, as badly as he needed the money, categorically canceled the lecture series. Though badly in need of dentures, Lasker adamantly refused a wealthy dentist's offer of free services. Another time, when a physician suggested that he might need an operation, Lasker brusquely refused to discuss the matter. "That means blood," he said. Despite my great admiration for Lasker, I was disappointed when, after losing the world championship to Capablanca, he explained his defeat with all kinds of trivial excuses except the obvious and cardinal one Capablanca's twenty- year age advantage. The greatest personalities are not immune from the fear of aging, and undoubtedly Lasker had a touch of that terror. When Lasker was taken to a hospital with a kidney infection he was already beyond help. As Dr. Ely Moschcowitz later expressed it, "His kidneys were swollen to the size of footballs." Lasker had come for treatment too late, Moschcowitz added, having already been "ruined" by another doctor. Emanuel Lasker, born in Berlinchen, in Prussia, on December 24, 1868 (the same day as Richard Teichmann, another great chessmaster), died in New York on January 13, 1941. (Dr. Moschcowitz, by the way, also witnessed the deaths of both of Lasker's most dangerous rivals Pillsbury and Capablanca, who died in 1906 and 1942, respectively. Pillsbury was not, as some puritanical reports would have it, a victim of some mysterious ailment caused by playing blindfold chess. He died of syphilis, which he had contracted during the St. Petersburg tournament in 1895-96. Soon after the Cambridge Springs tournament of 1904, his last and least successful appearance, he was a pitiful sight, Dr. Moschcowitz said. Though only 32 years of age, he was a picture of utter neglect, his teeth and whole body simply rotting away. His death came at a much earlier age than that of Steinitz, who also suffered from syphilis.)

89. AllRefer Encyclopedia - Emanuel Lasker (Games And Hobbies, Biographies) - Encycl
    AllRefer.com reference and encyclopedia resource provides completeinformation on emanuel lasker, Games And Hobbies, Biographies.  
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    Extractions: By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z L Related Category: Games And Hobbies, Biographies Emanuel Lasker A OO el] Pronunciation Key Capablanca in 1921. Lasker studied the games of his opponents for their weaknesses and predilections in technique and played primarily against the temperament of his opponents. He was a master in closed positions. See his Common Sense in Chess (1896; rev. ed. by D. A. Mitchell, 1965), Lasker's Manual of Chess (1934), and The Games of Emanuel Lasker, Chess Champion

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    Extractions: This talking book comes with an interactive ''magic pen'' that works like a hand-held computer mouse pointer. Children can opt to turn the paper pages and listen to the story read with different voices for each character. Or they can interrupt the read-aloud session to play with the magic pen (permanently attached with a wire). They can point the pen tip to any word on a page and hear it pronounced, or touch a picture and hear a sound effect (such as ''Strike one!'' for the baseball bat). Very similar to the popular Living Books computer games, this 10-by-11-inch book is more portable than a home computer. Stories in this set include Lil's Loose Tooth, Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, and Winnie the Pooh in A Sweet Good Morning. The set also includes a paper piano keyboard and map and human anatomy games. Gail Hudson

92. Pejmanesque: SAVE THE EMANUEL LASKER HIGH SCHOOL!
    April 10, 2004. SAVE THE emanuel lasker HIGH SCHOOL! It really is worththe effort A German village with a 1000year-old tradition  
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    Extractions: "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords." Theodore Roosevelt Main It really is worth the effort A German village with a 1000-year-old tradition of playing chess is fighting to save its unique school from closure by education chiefs. Students at the Dr Emanuel Lasker High School in Stroebeck, 80 kilometres south-west of Magdeburg in eastern Germany, are taught chess compulsorily in recognition of the village's long and unusual association with the world's oldest game. However, villagers have now been told that their school - named after the Prussian Jew from Brandenburg province who was world chess champion for 27 years from 1894 - is too small to stay open, prompting fears that their chess tradition is in jeopardy. According to local custom, the inhabitants of Stroebeck first learned to play chess in 1011 when bishop Arnulf II of Halberstadt ordered a Wendish duke, Guncellin, to be locked up in the village watchtower. With nothing to read and little in common with his peasant guards, the duke carved 32 chess pieces and painted a board on a table, then taught the guards how to play.

93. Lasker
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    Extractions: J.R. Capablanca Emanuel Lasker wurde am 24.Dezember 1868 in in dem kleinen deutschen Städtchen Berlinchen in Brandenburg ( dem heutigen Barlinek in Polen. ) geboren. Sein älterer Bruder Berthold lehrte den elfjährigen Emanuel Schach. Im Winter 1888/89 errang Lasker seinen ersten Turniersieg. In der Meisterschaft des Cafés "Kaiserhof" gewann er alle Partien! Dieser Erfolg beflügelte den jungen Mann, und er half ihm auch materiell. An den aufgehenden Stern glaubten seine Freunde und Bewunderer, die mit jedem Monat mehr wurden. Unter ihnen war auch der Vater seiner künftigen Ehefrau, Jacob Bamberger, der ihn monatlich mit zehn Mark unterstützte. Bereits im Juni 1889 errang Lasker den Meistertitel, nachdem er das Hauptturnier des Deutschen Schachbundes in Breslau gewann.

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