EDWARD LASKER (born Dec-03-1885, died Mar-25-1981, 95 years old) Germany (federation/nationality United States of America) [what is this?] Edward Lasker was born in Kempen (Province of Posen, German Empire, presently Poland). He studied in Breslau and in Charlottenburg (now part of Berlin). Before World War I he moved to London, England, but after the outbreak of the war he left the UK to come to the United States. When America entered the war, he was sent enlistment papers, but with the right of exemption as a German. He waived his right to exemption, hoping that may expedite his request for American citizenship; however, the war was over before he was called. He was Paris Champion in 1912 (defeating Frederic Lazard in a 4 game match), City of London Champion in 1914, New York City Champion in 1915, the Chicago Champion in 1916, and won five U.S. Open events (1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, and 1921). In 1923 he challenged Frank Marshall in a match for the American championship, narrowly losing by a 5-4 score http://graeme.50webs.com/chesschamp.... He competed in the famous New York 1924 tournament, but finished only tenth out of eleven players. After that he authored several chess books, but did not compete in very many more serious tournaments, devoting most of his time to his engineering profession. FIDE awarded him the official IM title in 1961. He was friends with world champion Emanuel Lasker. Some controversy exists as to whether they were related. Edward Lasker wrote in his memoirs of the New York (1924) tournament "I did not discover that we were actually related until he (Emanuel Lasker) told me shortly before his death that someone had shown him a Lasker family tree on one of whose branches I was dangling." He authored several books, including Chess Strategy (1913), Chess and Checkers: the Way to Mastership (1918), Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood (1942), and Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters (1951). notes: Edward also played consultation chess on the team of Edward Lasker / Allies. Wikipedia article: Edward Lasker Last updated: 2024-03-17 17:29:33

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page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 319  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Ed Lasker vs F Chalupetzky 0-1 25 1903 corr C42 Petrov Defense 2. Ed Lasker vs K Moll 0-1 36 1907 Berlin CC Winter t D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 3. Ed Lasker vs Alekhine 0-1 32 1908 Duesseldorf C41 Philidor Defense 4. A Rhode vs Ed Lasker 0-1 24 1909 East-GER CF Congress C56 Two Knights 5. A Lasker vs Ed Lasker 0-1 20 1909 Simul, 30b C50 Giuoco Piano 6. E Cohn vs Ed Lasker ½-½ 56 1909 Chess Society C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 7. A Nimzowitsch vs Ed Lasker 0-1 24 1910 Training game C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 8. Ed Lasker vs Rotlewi ½-½ 62 1910 Hauptturnier-A C55 Two Knights Defense 9. M Kuerschner vs Ed Lasker   0-1 29 1910 Hauptturnier-A C49 Four Knights 10. Ed Lasker vs A G Conde 1-0 44 1910 Hauptturnier-A D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 11. E E Colman vs Ed Lasker   0-1 45 1910 Hauptturnier-A B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 12. A Zinkl vs Ed Lasker ½-½ 35 1911 Berlin-Vienna C77 Ruy Lopez 13. R Loman vs Ed Lasker   1-0 53 1912 London C28 Vienna Game 14. B Goulding Brown vs Ed Lasker 0-1 16 1912 Cambridge UCC vs Hampstead CC C30 King's Gambit Declined 15. G Thomas vs Ed Lasker 1-0 33 1912 City of London CC ch A43 Old Benoni 16. Ed Lasker vs G Thomas 1-0 18 1912 Casual game A40 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Ed Lasker vs W Ward 1-0 75 1913 City of London CC ch D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 18. J Davidson vs Ed Lasker   0-1 30 1913 City of London CC ch A43 Old Benoni 19. A Curnock vs Ed Lasker   0-1 32 1913 City of London CC ch C56 Two Knights 20. H G Cole vs Ed Lasker   ½-½ 36 1913 City of London CC ch C77 Ruy Lopez 21. Ed Lasker vs R Loman   0-1 27 1913 City of London CC ch D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 22. A Caplan vs Ed Lasker   0-1 42 1913 North Manchester CC - Metropolitan CC m D00 Queen's Pawn Game 23. S St Jermain Steadman vs Ed Lasker 0-1 19 1913 City of London CC ch D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 24. Ed Lasker vs H Jacobs 0-1 104 1913 City of London CC ch D02 Queen's Pawn Game 25. Ed Lasker vs O Mueller 1-0 26 1913 City of London CC ch A02 Bird's Opening  page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 319

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 9 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-06-03    morphynoman2: This are very good links, two free books by Edward Lasker: Lasker, Edward: Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Jan 2004) Lasker, Edward: Chess Strategy, trans. by Julew Du Mont (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2004) Jul-06-03    morphynoman2: I give you the adresses: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.ed... http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.ed... Dec-12-03    talchess2003: someone submit a picture of him! Dec-12-03    technical draw: How can someone write a book on chess strategy if that person only won 16 games in 49 years? Dec-12-03    Bears092: Tech - There's probably a few games missing... Dec-12-03    technical draw: Bears..Maybe that's his strategy. Play as little as possible. The less you play, the less you lose. Great strategy! Jan-26-04    chessgames.com: <someone submit a picture of him!> Enjoy! Jan-26-04    Benzol: He was an Engineer by profession and I believe he invented the Breast Pump. Jan-26-04    technical draw: I think that's a photo of Fred Astaire. Jan-27-04    mdorothy: <How can someone write a book on chess strategy if that person only won 16 games in 49 years?> Look who he's playing in those few games, too. Mar-27-04    capanegra: <morphynoman2> Thanks for the links. I enjoyed very much, specially the chapter of checkers. Ed. Lasker also wrote a very fine book of Go and Go-Moku (it seems that he was very fond of games). Go is a beautiful Chinese game (actually it is the equivalent to chess for Orientals) which I truly recommend to learn and play. Mar-27-04    ruylopez900: <capa> Actually Shogi is the japanese form of chess. <td> He was a rather strong player, though never a contender for the World Championship. He was invited to the New York International in 1924, arguably the strongest tournament of all time. (DRR w. Capa, Em.Lasker, Alekhine, Marshall, Reti, Maroczy, Yates, Tartakower, Bogoljiblov and Janowski) He didn't even finish last! Mar-27-04    capanegra: <ruylopez900> Yes, Shogi is the Oriental version of chess, as you say, and I wasn’t clear in my previous post. I pretended to compare chess with go from a popularity point of view. It is said that Em. Lasker was another fine go player. During his training for the world title match against Tarrasch, he stayed with Ed. Lasker in the countryside, but not practicing chess: instead they played go! Ed. Lasker tells that the last day of that stay, while they were walking in the woods, Emanuel made the only allusion of chess, saying that he pretended to play the exchange variation of the Ruy López if he had the White pieces, because it was psychologically important not to lose the first game! Mar-27-04    ruylopez900: <capa> I would agree w/ you but I do belive that shogi is the most popular boardgame in Japan. I think 60% of youngsters play shogi, 15% play western chess and 7% play go. go used to be big but I think its all about shogi now. Apr-01-04    ughaibu: Is he impying that an even lesser proportion of the chess books that a person buys is read? Apr-01-04    square dance: <ughaibu> thats funny you bring that up because i was just counting all of my chess books today and i have 31, and have not even read a few of the newer ones, but have read parts of most of them. i dont think ill have the time to read them all in the next couple of years, but i hope to learn a little from each of them. Apr-01-04    ughaibu: The important question is: how many more will you buy in that same couple of years? Apr-01-04    square dance: <ughaibu> next time i make it down to the book store, which is about an hour away, i will buy at least one more. im planning on buying a nimzo-indian book. we'll see what else they have. i also have a ruy lopez, kings indian, and an english, the last two could barely be described as having been opened by me. right now my book of interest is fundemental chess endings. i almost bought "bobby fischer goes to war" but then figured that it would be a waste of time, and therefore a waste of money. i am going to give the english and kings indian books a quick look through just to get a basic idea of how to handle those openings a little. i also have silman's books "the ametuers mind" and "how to reasses your chess" and those will be my next projects after i get through with FCE. Aug-08-04    Maroczy: Yesterday at the city library I checked out <Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters>. First published in 1951, this book is a window into a bygone era; turn of the century chess in Europe. I like the portraits of chess greats that Edward Lasker met in his youth. I was surprised to read that Mr. Lasker was more impressed by Pillsbury's blindfold exhibition than Alekhine's a number of years later. Alekhine has acquired a near godlike status in the chess pantheon. I wonder if Edward Lasker had any children; if he did, were any of them master class chess players? Sep-06-04    Knight13: Edward Lasker wrote a book called "Chess Strategy." Sep-07-04    madlydeeply: Lasker's book was the first book I ever read, it is to blame for countless hours of pointless study leading to ngligible progress. THanks, eddie. Dec-02-04    PizzatheHut: I just got through playing blitz on FICS, and for a fleeting moment I felt like Edward Lasker against George Alan Thomas. I got to finish my opponent off with 36. Kb2#, similar to the finish in the previously mentioned game. Dec-17-04    kostich in time: "Lasker the lesser" was a fairly good master. He was probably the third best US player of the twenties(after Marshall and Kupchick)His books about the game are entertaining, if historically unreliable. He did very well in a match against Marshall for the US championship in 23.(Then again, Marshall was always a poor match player) Dec-17-04    paulalbert: To Kostich in Time: Saw you are Lincoln scholar. Assume you are familiar with works of David Donald whose Civil War course I took at Princeton in 1963. On chess, I had the privilege of meeting Edward Lasker in 1980 when in his 90s and still treasure my autographed Chess Secrets. I was curious about your "historically unreliable". Not disputing it, just curious about the specific items to which you are referring. Paul Albert Dec-17-04    IMlday: Lasker's "Chess Secrets" is one of the great chess books of all time. You're reading along figuring the guy is just a friendly pooch when you get up to 1923-24 and realize he was about 2500 elo! Later he attended Olympiads in the 70's as a kibitzer and fan; a very friendly fellow, and seemingly ageless. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 9) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 9 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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