| Nov-12-04 |
| offramp: After move 22 white seems to have a massive position, but there doesn't seem to be any way he can improve it. Lasker advances his pawns on the k-side and white collapses. It is hard to spot the major error; perhaps it was 19.d4.
Janowsky couldn't believe the result of this game and repeated the whole variation two games later, but he lost again, Janowski vs Lasker, 1909. |
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| Nov-13-04 |
| Saruman: <offramp> Im not sure that 19.d4 was mistake. For instance if he did not play d4 black has the opportunity to play Re5, if then d4 Lasker could have put the rook on stand-by mode on a5. The point being that the rook is more active on a5. One interesting variation could be;
19.Rg2 Re5 20.d4 Ra5 21.Rb5 Rxb5 22.Bxb5 a6. |
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Nov-13-04
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| Calli: Notable is 28...g5! If 29.exf5? Qxh3+! 30.Kxh3 Rh6+ 31.Kg4 Rh4 mate! This makes me think 28.Bd3 is bad because h3 needs protection in this position. |
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| Dec-12-04 |
| HOTDOG: 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nh4 with the idea 11.Qh5 and then f4 and White is better |
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| Apr-11-06 |
| offramp: This is the position after white's 22nd move:
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White has a pretty imposing position. His rooks are doubled on the g-file, he has a bishop against a knight, and he has a powerful-looking pawn structure.
After move 25 his position seems even better...
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..control of space and all that. Looking at this game, which Lasker seems to win without any trouble at all, makes me think of the title of the book "Everything You Know is Wrong". |
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Apr-11-06
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| who: There's a mistake to the notes to move 9. It should say Bxf6 |
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Nov-25-06
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| Wolfgang01: <offramp>Not „Everything You Know Is Wrong“ but „Everything You Believe To Know Is Wrong“!!
That's indeed why Lasker was the world champion for 27!!!!! years.
The twin rooks on the g-file look impressive with the pawn-center and attacking bishop, but Lasker shows us, that the „look“ is only optical and far off any mean. As we see he's winning so easily, Janowski also couldn't believe it. Maybe Lasker felt, that Janowski didn't have good plan or so? See annotations to move 10 and 12 of white, were he lost time in order to attack blacks position. |
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