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| Jun-12-06 | | Marmot PFL: My impression was that Edward Lasker's nerves weren't too good and sometimes caused him to blunder in tough positions. Here is one where he loses quickly to the author of Wining in the Chess Openings. Edward Lasker vs I A Horowitz, 1946 |
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| Jun-14-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: Very funny game in 14 moves (I meant the game which was linked)! |
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Jun-20-06
 | | offramp: <Calli: ChessGames: The year is 1911. Here is what Ed Lasker himself wrote about the game:
Ed Lasker
"... It was the first game I played in England, on the day I arrived there, sea sick from an awful channel crossing, and without knowing a word of English. As always when I find myself in a foreign country, my first visit was to the leading Chess Club, where a Chess player is sure to find friendly advice...>I can imagine this exchange:
Thomas: And you, sir. What is your name? Er ... Vos ist your name? Lasker: Ich bin Herr Lasker, der Schachspieler.
Thomas: Riiiiiiight. |
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| Jun-24-06 | | Marcelo Adaes: For the ones that want a O-O-O#, here is the game:
Prins vs L Day, 1968
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| Jul-01-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: offramp a really good kibitz. |
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| Dec-21-06 | | Civhai: <Knight13: This game should become the "Game of the Day" one day.>
This game should become the "Game of the Day" every day. |
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| Feb-22-07 | | Topola: I am impressed of how Black were trapped with one brilliant move! Well done! |
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| Mar-09-07 | | Manequinho: Man, one day I will announce a mate in eight with a queen sacrifice and finish it with a castling check mate! This one is a master-piece! |
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| Apr-11-07 | | ahmadov: This game is very dear to me because it has been my favourite one since the time when I had little understanding of chess... |
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May-07-07
 | | FSR: Instead of 10...Qe7?, 10...Bxe5! wins a pawn after 11.dxe5 Rf5 or 11.Qxe5 Nc6. As Larry Evans said, "you can't swash if your opponent doesn't buckle." So 10.Qh5 was actually dubious, and as pointed out earlier, White had two faster mates -- but still a beautiful game. |
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| Jun-17-07 | | spacetimereality: I like this game, even though white could have played anything but Qe7 to avoid getting checkmated. The finishing combination is so simple, yet so beatiful. |
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| Jul-18-07 | | amateur05: One of the most beautiful games ever played. |
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| Aug-26-07 | | Karpova: A new feature article by Edward Winter regarding this game:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... A short excerpt:
<Below is an attempt to summarize what may reliably be said about the game:* It was played by Ed. Lasker and George Thomas at the City of London Chess Club in late 1912. * It was an informal game in which neither player could at any point exceed his opponent’s time by more than five minutes. * Lasker’s mating move was 18 Kd2 and not 18 O-O-O.
* The most likely order of the opening moves is version 4 (the earliest sources) in the list above, which would give this complete game-score: 1 d4 e6 2 Nf3 f5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 Be7 5 Bxf6 Bxf6 6 e4 fxe4 7 Nxe4 b6 8 Ne5 O-O 9 Bd3 Bb7 10 Qh5 Qe7 11 Qxh7+ Kxh7 12 Nxf6+ Kh6 13 Neg4+ Kg5 14 h4+ Kf4 15 g3+ Kf3 16 Be2+ Kg2 17 Rh2+ Kg1 18 Kd2 mate.> |
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| Sep-28-07 | | WickedPawn: There is a shorter checkmate if, instead of 16. Be2+, White plays: 16. O-O, Black moves
17. Nh2++. |
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| Oct-06-07 | | KFitzgerald: I just found this game over at YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsq... and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxL... This is such a cool game with a great ending. Makes me think, "You can run but you can't hide." |
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Oct-13-07
 | | Phony Benoni: The article by Edward Winter which <Karpova> gave above (Aug-26-07) also provides Lasker's reason for playing 18.Kd2# instead of 18.0-0-0#. He wrote that, being an efficiency-minded engineer, he preferred to move just one piece instead of two. However, he wrote that 50 years later and may have just been saving the punch line. |
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| Nov-20-07 | | DarthStapler: I love this game |
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| Jan-19-08 | | just a kid: <WickedPawn>No. Think about Rxf6. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | jrlepage: <just a kid> If 16. ...Rxf6 17. Nh2# still mates. |
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| Jan-20-08 | | just a kid: <jrlepage> crud forgot about the bishop. |
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| Mar-17-08 | | just a kid: <DarthStapler>Who doesn't? |
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Apr-14-08
 | | Richard Taylor: I worked this problem out in about 1960!!
I also saw it demonstrated on You Tube recently - it is a very straight foreward attack but very beautiful. I used to have E Lasker's book about Chess - he was a great writer on chess - he was a cousin or nephew of Emmanuel Lasker's He must have thought all his Xmases had come at once when he got ready for Qxh7+!! |
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| Apr-14-08 | | ToTheDeath: One of the first games I remember playing over. Impressive king hunt, especially for an offhand game. |
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| Apr-14-08 | | Jedithious: This game is a masterpiece. It has always been my very favorite chess game. The winning move, QXP+ is one of the most brilliant moves in the history of the game. It's awesome how the kings final resting place is the normal spot for the white king(when it castles). This sparkling game might even be better than Adolf Anderrsons Evergreen and Immortal games. (By the way, if I were him I would have used 0-0-0 as the mating move instead of K-d2 to make it even more sparkling!) |
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| Apr-14-08 | | zdigyigy: This player, Thomas, was apparently a strong master. Its pretty hard to bust a guy like this in ten moves......Hats off to Lasker for this one. |
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