| Dec-21-07 | | whiteshark: Neither Gotthold Ephraim nor Doris, but
NN Lessing |
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| Dec-21-07 | | Calli: Norman Lessing - With Saidy, he authored "The World of Chess" See http://rookvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2... |
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Jul-08-22
 | | MissScarlett: <Co-author (with Anthony Saidy) of <The Battle of Chess Ideas>> < With Saidy, he authored "The World of Chess"> Are these the same book?
Lessing, apparently, claims in <The World of Chess> to have beaten Lasker in a simul in 1924 when just 13 - a position from the game appears in <Whyld (1998)>. Can anyone relate the story? |
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| Jul-08-22 | | Granny O Doul: I've heard of both books and have The World of Chess somewhere.....I'm sure they aren't the same. "World" is a coffee table book, full of pictures and stories. I don't remember the Lasker simul, though I do recall Lessing's description of a pawn-odds game he drew vs. Alekhine. No score, though; Lessing didn't have it anymore if he ever did. |
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Jul-09-22
| | MissScarlett: I’d just read on Wikipedia that <TWOC> was a coffee-table book, so it should have occurred that it couldn’t also be known as <TBOCI>. |
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Jul-09-22
 | | keypusher: <Gra nny O Doul: I've heard of both books and have The World of Chess somewhere.....I'm sure they aren't the same. "World" is a coffee table book, full of pictures and stories.
I don't remember the Lasker simul, though I do recall Lessing's description of a pawn-odds game he drew vs. Alekhine. No score, though; Lessing didn't have it anymore if he ever did.> I remember the Lasker simul from TWOC, though not the year. Lessing beat Lasker in a pawn ending. Lasker ruffled his hair and said it was a pleasure to lose such a beautiful ending. Lessing said it was little wonder that he became a devotee of chess and cigars. TWOC and The Battle of Chess Ideas were definitely different books, MissScarlett. |
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Jul-09-22
| | keypusher: Also, the battle of chess ideas was just Saidy. The bio is wrong. |
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| Jul-09-22 | | Granny O Doul: Aha, I do remember reading that now.
A friend of mine, btw, used to routinely say "brilliantly played; you will go far" when he resigned, as Capablanca reportedly did on losing a simul game to the young Mikhail Botvinnik. The latter later denied that the former was nearly so gracious, but that later on they were collegial colleagues. |
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Jul-12-22
| | MissScarlett: <Whyld (1998> gives this position from <The World of Chess>: <Lasker - N. Lessing (age 13), simul New York (Stuyvesant Club), 1924> 
click for larger viewThe finish being <1.Kh3 Kf6 2.Kh2 Ke6 3.Kg2 Ke5 4.c3 Kf5 5.Kh3 g4+ 6.fxg4+ Kg5 0-1> After his success at New York (1924) Lasker undertook a short tour giving simuls in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Boston and New York. For New York, <Whyld (1998)> lists only two displays - May 21st at NY University, 20b (+19 -1) and Stuyvesant, 50b (undated, no score). However, it's known that Lasker also gave a simul on May 27th at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, 25b (+20 -1 =4), and a final one at the <New York Athletic Club>, 18b (+17 =1) on June 7th, before sailing for Germany on June 11th. The issue is that I can't find any independent record of a Lasker simul at the Stuyvesant CC. Hard to believe that a 50 board display, especially one in which he went down to a 13-year-old, wouldn't have made the press. I'm wondering if the simul is described as a 50 board affair in <TWOC>. If so, it would strongly suggest that Whyld relied entirely on Lessing's account. Which, in turn, raises the possibility - did Lessing invent the whole thing? |
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