The author of the book is a famous American grandmaster, one of the best chess writers of the first half of the 20th century. A participant in the famous super tournament in New York in 1924, where he became famous as a co-author of the unique endgusteum and a pawn against a horse in the party with his namesake and world champion Emanuel Lasker. This one fight and a beautiful victory over George Thomas would have been enough to get into the “Hall of Glory” of chess art. Extraordinary person who has lived a long and rich life, Eduard Lasker generously shares his memories of his creative path and the great contemporaries – Pilsbury, Laskera, Alekhin, Kapablanca, Yanovsky, Marshall, Resashevsky and many others with whom he was friendly and more than once met behind the board. This book is not only a farewell salute of the past era, but also a brilliant textbook of a chess strategy and tactics: on examples from his own, and not only, the author openly talks about what and how he studied from his glorified maestro …
Author
Lasker Edward
Editor
Elkov A.N.
Translator
Elkov A.N.
Publisher
Ed. Andrey Yelkov, 2014
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