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Jan-29-04
 | | kevin86: One of the greatest games ever!! Definitely,a great finish!! Who would have known until then,that a  could have held off a  + ? |
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Jan-29-04
 | | paulalbert: The full background of this game is told by Edward Lasker in his great book Chess Secrets. Although Edward was only able to draw this game because of Emanuel's resourcefulness, it shows that Edward was fully competitive against the world's best. Paul Albert |
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Jan-29-04
 | | tamar: Just when the fireworks die down from the flurry of sacrifices after 17 xe5, Edward Lasker finds 34 xe4!! but still can't finish off the great fighter. Read the account if you can get Ed Lasker's book. |
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Jun-06-05
 | | The Diamond: Kevin86: I agree that it's a great game -- but I'm not sure I agree that no one knew until then that a knight could draw against a rook + pawn. For example, in Fine's Basic Chess Endings (updated by Benko), a similar position (#971) is given from Bilguer's Handbuch. Bilguer's Handbuch was first published in 1843 and updated a number of times over the years (the 8th edition was done by Schlechter in the early 2oth century). My suspicion is that Lasker knew about this draw possibility. |
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| Aug-02-05 | | jcmoral: Maybe Lasker knew but Lasker didn't. |
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Aug-02-05
 | | who: Fritz points out that 30...Nxe4 wins a pawn as 31.fxe4 Rxe4 and black wins the knight. |
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Aug-02-05
| | GoldenKnight: <paulalbert> Yes, Edward was fully competitive, but as Alekhine said after the tournament, as quoted by Edward Lasker in one of his books, "Any master who repeatedly blunders in won positions does not have the stamina to [I forget how he finished, but it was something like "win tournaments" or "play at the highest level" or "sustain himself through a long tournament" or something like that]." Alekhine was referring to Edward when he said that. I think that's why Edward ultimately lost the match against Marshall for the U.S. Championship that he should have easily won. |
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Aug-02-05
| | paulalbert: Edward's bout of appendicitis during his match with Marshall certainly had some impact on his stamina. Although competitive, Edward was certainly not at the Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, etc. level. Whether he could have been closer had he devoted more time to chess, rather than his professional activities ( and don't forget about his intense involvement with the game Go ), no one will ever know, but he certainly was a credit to and a great contributor to the game of chess. Getting to meet him only a year before he died is one of the highlights of my long involvement with chess. Paul Albert |
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Aug-02-05
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: paulalbert, you might like to know that a friend of mine is producing a play at this year's San Francisco Fringe Festival entitled Go Kibbitz, about Em. & Ed. Lasker. |
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Aug-03-05
| | paulalbert: To: An Englishman. Thank you. I looked at the writeup at the Fringe Festival site. I assume the theme is political and not about chess. Also the writeup also mentions Edward's involvement in Go, and there seems to be a play of words on "Go" in the last sentence. Have you seen the play or do you know more about it. Of course in 1933 Edward had long been a resident of the United States and Emanuel Lasker had spent lots of time outside Germany, so the premise of the play as described as where to go outside Germany in the brief writeup seems a little artificial, but I'd be interested to know more. Paul Albert |
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Aug-14-05
| | dac1990: <AdrianP> This also goes into your OMGP collection as game #70. |
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Aug-15-05
| | AdrianP: <dac1990> Thanks again - re your search for the best games of 2005 - I've bookmarked some of the ones I've found most interesting in this game collection. Game Collection: AdrianP's Bookmarked Games (2005) |
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| Sep-10-05 | | SanFrancisco: Re comments on the play GO KIBBITZ playing within the Fringe Fest., SF: I am the actor portraying Edward Lasker. The historical specs have indeed been skewed for artistic reasons. It is an excellent vignette about 3 brilliant men passing the time while the world is about to plunge into darkness. Come see it. PaulAlbert: Pls share w me any recollection from your personal encounter w Ed. |
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Sep-16-05
| | paulalbert: For <San Francisco> : Sorry to take so long in responding, but I am on the site only intermittently. My only meeting with Edward Lasker was on February 8, 1980 at the Marshall Chess Club where he gave a lecture on his win against Richard Reti in the great 1924 NY International Tournament. This is where I got Edward to autograph my copy of Chess Secrets I Learned fom the Masters, which is as valuable on his personal insights about the great masters of chess that he met and played against as it is with respect to the chess games analysis and instructional insights. The lecture surprisingly was attended by only a few people. My conversation with Edward other than related to the game was limited. At that time, he was apparently still in excellent health, immaculately dressed and groomed, and certainly showed no signs of his age. It was about one year later that he died. It's unfortunate that I did not try to engage him in a longer and broader discussion. I was not a member of the Marshall at that time and had no other opportunity to meet him. There are other members of the Marshall who knew Edward over a long period of time and would have much more to offer than I concerning their contacts with Edward Lasker. Paul Albert |
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Sep-16-05
 | | Boomie: Here's one of those endgames where you wish the Nalimov tables went to 6 pieces. Black missed a winning chance on move 81. Whether this is a win in fact or just in Fritz's little mind is another question. After spending an inordinate amount of time on this position (and loving it), I stumbled on this article http://www.chesscafe.com/text/dvore.... The argument is convincingly made here that if the white king reaches the b-pawn, the position is drawn as in the game. I can't find a way to prevent this. 81...Kd6 82. Kd4 Rc7 83. g7 Rxg7 84. Kc3 Rb7
(84...Rg3+ 85. Kb4 Kd5 86. Nc3+ Kd4 87. Na4 Rf3 88. f5 Ke5 89. Ka3  (-1.32/16)) 85. Nb2
(85. Ne3 Kc5 86. Nd1 Kd5 87. f5 Rb8 88. Nb2 Ke5 89. Nd3+ Kxf5) (85. Nb2 Ke6 86. Nd3 Rb5 87. Kb2 Kd5 88. Nc1 Kc4  (-#25)) (85. f5 Ke5 86. Ne3 Rb8 87. Kb2)
85...Ke6 86. Nd3 Rb5 87. Kb2 Kd5
After 88. Kc3 Ke4 89. Nb2 Kxf4 90. Nc4, we have finally reached a 5 piece ending. Nalimov rates this position a draw. |
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Sep-16-05
| | aw1988: nalimov *does* go to 6. |
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Sep-16-05
| | Boomie: OK. The server at http://mx2.lokasoft.com/uk/tbweb.htm only goes to 5. Where is one that goes to 6? |
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Sep-16-05
| | aw1988: The actual nalimoves that you have to buy. Or you could download them. But it would be easier on a CD. They're even coming out with some 7-piece ones now. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | DanDman: Help me understand why, Why, WHY move 35 does not take the queen??? 35. fxe5???????????? |
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Dec-31-05
| | aw1988: Because of Ng3+. |
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Dec-31-05
 | | Pawn and Two: As already stated, this game was reviewed in detail by Edward Lasker in his book Chess Secrets. Edward provides even greater detail of this fascinating game in his book, Chess for Fun & Chess for Blood. He was of the opinion that his last chance to win the game was at move 72, by playing R-d7, keeping the Rook on the 7th rank. Alekhine's annotations in the New York 1924 tournament book also agree that 72. R-d7 was the last winning chance. However, during the game Edward and many other masters believed he was winning for many moves after move 72. In Chess for Fun & Chess for Blood, Edward states that when he played 90. R-g3, he had calculated this was the move that would win the game after all. He believed that he could now win as White would not be able to safely capture Black's Pawn. He left the room at that moment to stretch a little and was congratulated upon for his victory by Bogoljubov, Reti and Alekhine who were in the Press room. However, as Edward relates, when he returned to the table a rude shock awaited him. In a few more moves, Emanuel Lasker demonstrated that he had found a way to draw by not capturing the Pawn! |
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| Jan-01-06 | | DanDman: ok, so, I am still a rookie. missed that |
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Jun-08-06
| | whatthefat: This game is quite a feast. |
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Apr-15-07
 | | plang: This is a great game. Dvoretsky did a 2 part column for Chess Cafe on this game with outstanding analysis. He pointed out several errors in Alekhines annotations. Alekhine did a great service providing commentary on all the games played in this great tournament but it is not surprising that he made some oversights. Kasparov included analysis of the endgame in volume I of MGP and Dvoretsky points out a number of flaws in his analysis. In fact, it is hard to believe that the analysis is actually by Kasparov. Alekhine's conclusion is that the pawn sacrifice 15..Nh5 is not correct. Dvoretsky does not agree with this and shows that black gets quite a bit of counterplay. 30..Ba3 was a time pressure error that wasted a few tempos. Alekhine concluded that the alternative 30..Ne4 31 fe..Re4 32 Rc8 was not sound for black but Dvoretsky showed that after 32..Re8! is close to winning for black. After black misses this the complications that follow net white 2 knights for a rook. Dvoretsky showed that 43 Qa6..Ra8 44 Qg6..Ra3 45 Ng4 would have given white a powerful attack. After he misses this opportunity he loses much of his advantage. White, pushing too hard for the win plays a faulty piece sacrifice 51 Nh6+ (though he still had a chance for a perpetual with 55 Qb6+)which leads to a better endgame for black. 67..Qd6 followed by 68..Rd1 would have kept the queens on and led to a winning attack for black. Alekhine, Averbakh and Dvoretsky agreed that 72..Rd7 would have led to a win for black though this was difficult to foresee at the time. Lasker's (Em) play in saving the endgame; particularly with 77 a6 and 78 a7 is close to impeccable. |
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| Apr-02-08 | | Banoboy: I have played this defence as Black, but most of my opponents have found that 15.Ne3 is better than Lasker's 15.Re2 or Alekhine's suggestion 15.Bd3. |
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