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	Emanuel Lasker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lasker is noted for his "psychological" method of play in which he considered the subjective qualities of his opponent in addition to the objective requirements of his position on the board.
		Lasker introduced the concept of a primary ideal, which extends the notion of a power of a prime number to algebraic geometry.
		Lasker's Manual of Chess, 1925, was as famous in chess circles for its philosophical tone as for its content.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emmanuel_Lasker (935 words)

	Emanuel Lasker, The Game is Afoot, Biography
		Lasker contracted Typhoid fever and was still recovering in 1895 when he took 3rd place in Hastings, England behind Pillsbury and Tchigorin.
		Lasker was not only good friends with Dr. Albert Einstein, but in the 1930's they shared an apartment and exchanged ideas during their frequent walks.
		Lasker came in 5th in Zurich in 1934, 3rd in Moscow in 1935, 6th in Moscow in 1936, and 7th in Nottingham in 1936.
	www.starfireproject.com /chess/lasker.html (1087 words)

	A Lasker Article
		Lasker understood that playing a good position can pose players mental problems, there can be a tendency to relax, and in the face of dogged defensive play a player’s head can go down, even if he still has an advantage.
		Lasker famously wrote that an advantage or even an initiative was not the same as a win and the club players can learn from him that they should never relax if they are winning or give up if you stand badly.
		Lasker was active in chess for over forty years, an extraordinary length of time to play at the very top, his last great achievement was in 1935 at age 67 he was an unbeaten third in Moscow (+6=3) behind Botvinnik and Flohr.
	freespace.virgin.net /kenny.m/Lasker/a_lasker_article.htm (2290 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Wordman: A Brief History of Chess
		As masterful a player as Emmanuel Lasker regarded chess as neither an art nor a science but rather a war in which the pieces served as troops and the players the generals.
		Lasker was fond of using the Battle of Cannae, 216 BC, as an illustration.
		Lasker thought that it was entirely possible that Hannibal not only drew lines and placed stones on a board to explain his stratagems, but did so on what would one day be called a chequer-board.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/wordman007.html (1446 words)

	Rudolf Charousek
		Emmanuel Lasker, chess champion of the world, once said in reference to Rudolf Charousek, "I shall have to play a championship match with this man some day."
		In 1896, he defeated Emanuel Lasker at Nuremberg and in many minds was considered his successor.
		Unfortunately, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz and Pillsbury were not in that tournament.
	www.angelfire.com /games/SBChess/unknown/Charousek.html (213 words)

	The Dimock Theme Tournament, New York 1924 -- The New York International Tournament
		Emmanuel Lasker, who had lost the World Championship in 1921 after a 27 year reign, left most of the field far behind, though the current World Champion Jose Raoul Capablanca kept pace with him for a while and handed Lasker his only defeat.
		Lasker (with an amazing endgame featuring two Knights and three pawns versus a Queen and pawn), Capablanca-Tartakower (with its famous Rook ending), and Reti-Capablanca (which was Capa's first loss in many years).
		Emmanuel Lasker's Description of New York 1924 and 1927, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 at Chess Cafe.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~goeller/urusov/dimock/ny_international.html (865 words)

	Karl Schlechter
		Lasker, who was not a fast starter, found himself struggling from the outset and he was lucky to get draws in the first two games.
		Lasker had been champion sixteen years and now he was on the verge of losing his crown.
		Lasker was soon to regret that he didn't preserve the usual match terms as in the previous matches, in which the victor was determined by the number of wins, draws weren't counted.
	snow.prohosting.com /~batgrrl/Schlechter.html (3480 words)

	Emmanuel Lasker (1868-1941)
		Emmanuel Lasker nació el 24 de diciembre de 1868 en Berlinchen (un pequeño pueblo cercano a Berlín) y murió en Nueva York el 13 de enero de 1941, lejos de Alemania y la barbarie nazi.
		Lasker era doctor en filosofía, seguidor de Schopenhauer, autor de teatro, y un buen matemático (tiene escrito un libro sobre álgebra).
		Lasker es uno de los más grandes jugadores de ajedrez de todos los tiempos.
	ajedrez.pastranec.net /historia/lasker.htm (1490 words)

	The London Chess Centre
		'Emmanuel Lasker', by Sergei Soloviov with annotators from the St Petersburg school of Grandmasters (including Alexander Khalifman), is produced by Convekta 2001.
		For strictly biographical purposes (details of Lasker's life outside of chess), it is worthless; and one should seek out one of the various books on that subject (I gather that one or even two have appeared recently).
		Lilienthal, apparently Lasker's last living opponent(!), shows his game from Moscow 1935 against the great one (a draw), although his comments and the game are not visually coordinated.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/jwatsonbkrev47.html (1448 words)

	Jose Capablanca Biography
		Lasker accepted his challenge but proposed seventeen conditions for the match.
		In 1920, Lasker saw that Capablanca was becoming too strong, and resigned the title to him, saying, "You have earned the title not by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery." Capablanca wanted to win it in a match, but Lasker insisted that he was now the challenger.
		In fact, only Marshall, Lasker, Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann won two or more serious games with the mature Capablanca, but their overall lifetime scores were minus (Capablanca beat Marshall +20 -2 =28, Lasker +6 -2 = 16, Alekhine +9 -7 =33), except for Spielmann who was level (+2 -2 =8).
	www.bobby-fischer.net /Jose_Capablanca.htm (2545 words)

	Card Player Magazine - The Check-Raise by Bob Ciaffone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lasker was on a transatlantic voyage, and one of the passengers asked him to play a game of chess, having no idea who he was.
		When Lasker was hesitant, the man misjudged the reason why, and offered to spot Lasker a queen (a monster spot, as the queen is the most powerful piece).
		Lasker trounced the man, then said, "I told you having a queen was a disadvantage." Later on, the man found out who Lasker was, and felt quite embarrassed.
	www.cardplayer.com /magazine/article/249 (1607 words)

	7th Essent Chess Tournament Round 1
		Polgar sacrificed a bishop and was about to give up the other in a tactical theme credited to former world champion Emmanuel Lasker.
		Rather than be subjected to that and be mated in a few moves Karpov resigned.
		Lasker's Double Bishop Sacrifice was first seen in the game E.Lasker - JH Bauer Amsterdam 1889 and it is not a common occurrence at the top level.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/event/essent03/rd1.html (327 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - The Greatest Chess Player of All Time — Part IV
		Emanuel Lasker, on the other hand, had the longest total duration as world champion, as well as the most total months at the top of the rating list.
		Not that Lasker necessarily had an alternative, given the times he lived in, but perhaps his durations are not strictly comparable on a one-to-one basis with the durations of excellence achieved in more recent times by Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.
		And then the bronze medal goes to either Emanuel Lasker or Bobby Fischer, depending on the fine print about whether the most important timeframe is their whole career or their peak year.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2409 (2145 words)

	rediff.com: The Millennium Special: Viswanathan Anand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For the era in which he lived the kind of chess he played was unbelievable.
		I would include Emmanuel Lasker for his long reign.
		Lasker took over from Wilhelm Steinitz and he continued his reign for well over two decades.
	www.rediff.com /millenni/anand.htm (738 words)

	AJEDRECHESS MultiWeb. El sicologo del ajedrez
		Para ellos, Lasker era un fenómenoaterrador con un estilo propio y difícil que no podía ser imitado y que atribuía su atracción en ver el Ajedrez como un microcosmos intelectual de la lucha de toda la vida donde la Ciencia y el Arte constituyen un camino para la perfección.
		Pero el Dr. Lasker deliberadamente se embarco en esta variante por razones puramente psicologicas: sabia que su contrario no se iba a conformar con un juego tranquilo, sino que se lanzaria a crear situaciones agudas sobrevalorando sus posibilidades y desorientarse.
		Una partida dificil para ambos jugadores y una muestra de la confianza en si mismo del Dr. Lasker que supo nadar en mar profundo sin ahohgarse, solo con el objetivo de provocar y confindir a su adversario.
	thor.prohosting.com /chess64/Maestros/NelsonPinal_Nota05.shtml (820 words)

	PRACTICAL CHESS ENDING + COMPUTER ANALYSIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Levenfish, writing about this ending afterwards, couldn't understand why Lasker had not resigned.Blockading the passed pawn with the Rook is very unfavourable to white.How can White answer the threat of Kb5 followed by the advance of the a-pawn.?
		Lasker was one of the greatest defensive players of all time.Not for nothing was he called the
		This is the correct execution of the Lasker plan.Obtaining the passed h-pawn as quickly as posssible.
	members.aol.com /brigosling/psitn027.htm (468 words)

	History of San Francisco Chess
		Among the great masters who have given exhibitions at the institute are J. Zukertort, Harry N. Pillsbury, Dr. Emmanuel Lasker, Geza Maroczy, Frank J. Marshall, J. Capablanca, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Dr. Max Euwe and Svetozar Gligoric.
		Among the notable institute club masters in the past were A. Fink, who is an internationally known problemist and who has been State Champion several times.
		In 1902 he played in a stake game with the world champion (Dr. Emmanuel Lasker) and won.
	www.chessclub.org /hist.html (929 words)

	A Short History of the Royal Game
		Steinitz eventually became unstable, challenging God to odds of pawn and move.
		Steinitz was eventually defeated by Emmanuel Lasker, who used psychology to discover that if he made blunders his opponents would be so overjoyed that they would promptly make bigger ones.
		However, he could only keep this up for 27 years, and by then his opponents began to get wise.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /danheisman/Articles/Story_Short_History.html (937 words)

	Emmanuel Lasker. All the games. Volume 1. 1889-1903 Books about chessplayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The 1st volume of the book of the series "Chess stars" is devoted to Emmanuel Lasker, the second World Champion.
		All Lasker's tournaments' and matches' games played in 1889-1903, are annotated by the famous Grandmasters and Masters.
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	ChessNut.net — Home
		Well, imagine having to wait the better part of nine years, to unleash your surprise.
		That's just what Harry Nelson Pillsbury had to do with Emmanuel Lasker.
		Aron Nimzovitch vs. Milan Vidmar As the game begins, Vidmar pulls out a cigar, lights up, and begins to puff away.
	chessnut.net (562 words)

	MY Favorite ALL-TIME Chess Games
		Emanuel Lasker - J. Capablanca; St. Petersburg, 1914.
		Emanuel Lasker - William E. Napier; Cambridge Springs, 1904.
		A game that should have brought notice of his talent.
	www.lifemasteraj.com /old_af-dl/best-games_list.html (9951 words)

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