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Mar-03-08
 | | keypusher: <suenteus> thanks so much! |
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| Mar-04-08 | | suenteus po 147: <keypusher> You're welcome! The draw-replay rule did create some interesting results in the tournament, no the least of which is the mid-range gap you described in my chessforum. |
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Mar-04-08
| | keypusher: <Akavall>
Leaving aside the plausibility of your theory, do you have any evidence that workers 100 years ago were, in fact, underpaid? |
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Mar-07-08
| | keypusher: Lasker played in more tournaments in the first six years of his reign (Hastings 1895, St. Petersburg 1895-96, Nuremberg 1896, London 1899 Paris 1900) than in the last 20 (Cambridge Springs 1904, St. Petersburg 1909, St. Petersburg 1914, Berlin 1918). When he played three tournaments in three years in the 1920s, it was his highest level of activity in 30 years. |
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Mar-07-08
| | keypusher: Lasker went 11 years without a title match (1896-1907) and then another 11 years (1910-1921). |
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| Mar-08-08 | | brankat: Which means that he played some 9 matches in the remaining 5 years. Was any other Champion as active? :-) The fascinating feature of the gaps in Dr.Lasker's activities is that they never affected the quality of his game, or the results. The age didn't seem to matter either. There was, more or less, no difference between St.Petersburg, 1914 (46) and New York, 1924 (56). If anything the latter was probably a stronger event, and yet Lasker's margin of victory even higher. As for a gap, how about from Moscow 1925 to Moscow '35. With a little warm-up in Zurich (a successful one). The only undefeated contestant, at the age of 67. Can't think of anybody else that compares to this. In terms of longevity at the highest level, perhaps Steinitz and Smyslov, to a lesser extent Botvinnik. But without the long periods of "retirement". Who knows. these may have accounted for Lasker's durability. He never wasted time, energy, or thought on things which were not really necessary. |
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| Mar-08-08 | | brankat: The one I (try to) subscribe to:
"Of my 57 years, I’ve applied at least 30 to forgetting most of what I've learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. If need be, I can increase my skill in chess, if need be, I can do that of which I have no idea present. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight." <Dr.Emanuel Lasker> |
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Mar-08-08
| | keypusher: <brankat> I agree with everything you say...and that is a great quote from Lasker. I have been spending a great deal of time on his games lately (especially the Tarrasch-Lasker match, of course) and he is very mysterious to me. I am writing down some of the salient facts about him. One of the most striking, of course, is that he could be away from the board for years and then sit down and play as well as ever--sometimes even better! |
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| Mar-08-08 | | brankat: <keypusher> I remember reading somewhere an interview (or an article) by Capablanca, written in the early '30s, before Zurich 1934. Capablanca opined that with some 6 months of preparation Dr.Lasker would still be the strongest player of all! It is interesting that throughout the 1930s Capablanca, in all of his articles/interviews, always brings up Dr.Lasker, either when talking about <Judgment> in chess, or end-games skills, the depth of thought, or the fighting spirit. Although Capa was the one who defeated Lasker in their match, it seemed that, as he was growing older, Capablanca appreciated Dr.Lasker more and more. Another interesting anecdote comes from the old master G.Marco, who commented how it was "..quite remarkable to see great masters like Maroczy, Pillsbury and Rubinstein behaving like they were hypnotized when facing Dr.Lasker." :-) I'll try to provide a few more Lasker related anecdotes this evening. You may find them useful, or at least entertaining. |
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| Mar-09-08 | | brankat: I wonder if You have had a chance to check B.Fischer's site, starting with page 945. Very entertaining. Come to think of it, an enterprising attorney could make a few bucks there, too :-) |
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Mar-09-08
| | keypusher: <brankat> Ed Trice and Labatt? I put them both on ignore. I get enough pointless bickering at work. :-) |
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| Mar-10-08 | | brankat: I think You'll like this photo:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... |
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Mar-10-08
| | keypusher: <brankat> Wonderful, thank you! I have never seen a picture of Mrs. Lasker, still less her magnificent hat, which practically blots out the demonstration board. Mr Chess is <Calli>, no? |
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| Mar-11-08 | | brankat: That's why I posted the photo. Actually I didn't even know there was a Mrs.Lasker :-) It probably was <Calli>, but I don't remember now on which page I found it. |
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| Mar-11-08 | | brankat: Then You will like this one, too: Carlsbad 1907. Click on the left button above the photo :-) The card was sent by Vidmar to his friend Poljanec. More on Levenfish page. http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... |
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| Mar-11-08 | | brankat: And one more. A true gem! Carlsbad 1911. With all the young rising stars of the period in 1 photo; Rubinstein, Alekhine, Vidmar, Nimzowitsch, Tartakower, Spielmann, Levenfish, Kostic, and somewhat older Marshall, Duras, Schlechter. Together with the old guard like Burn, Marco, Chajes! http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/histori... |
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Mar-11-08
| | keypusher: <brankat> Golly, Rotlewi and Alekhine were tall. Nimzowitsch is practically unrecognizable with a mustache. I've seen the Carlsbad picture before, but not nearly as good an image. |
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| Mar-11-08 | | Open Defence: Dus-Chotmirsky looks fairly young.. I thought he was much much older than Alekhine |
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Mar-11-08
| | keypusher: <Open Defence> He was born 13 years earlier. Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky
I think we tend to assign a particular age to historical characters we aren't very familiar with...I think of Dus-Chotmirsky as a choleric middle-aged man. I always used to think of Lasker as an old man, and Capablanca as a young one. |
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| Mar-11-08 | | Open Defence: thanks <Keypusher> yes, I kinda read one anecdote where Dus-Chotmirsky took back a move once when playing against Alekhine and Alekhine did not object since he was a senior figure in Russian Chess so maybe I kinda got it into my head that he was much older... simmilar with Anderssen, I kinda imagine him as a very old player at the board heh! |
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| Mar-11-08 | | Open Defence: no I was wrong.. it happened against Bronstein not Alekhine... |
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| Mar-11-08 | | brankat: Yet another <Scherlock Holmes>-like find by Calli! No profiles here :-) http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... |
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| Mar-14-08 | | brankat: An entertaining article from "TheVillager":
http://www.thevillager.com/villager... |
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| Mar-19-08 | | brankat: You guys are still into IQ? Who needs it, and for what? :-) |
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Mar-20-08
| | keypusher: <brankat: You guys are still into IQ? Who needs it, and for what? :-)> Anyone (like me) trying to get his child a decent education in Manhattan needs the child to have a high IQ so he can get her into private school or a gifted program. How much will a parent pay to get his or her kid away from the low-IQ New York public school student population? About $30,000 a year -- that's private school tuition. That's one good measure of what IQ is worth. Because even if you have the money, you may not be able to get a slot if your child isn't bright enough. Luckily, my daughter is. More generally, IQ is a tool for measuring intelligence. A crude tool, but the best we have right now. (In ten years we'll probably be using brain scans.) Is intelligence something that's useful to know about? Of course it is. |
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