Emanuel Lasker was among the first chess players who were “good” in today’s terms. He was an educated player, with theoretical and endgame knowledge, and his play was a contrast to that of his predecessors, either romantic, or simply bad players.
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Emanuel Lasker was a very strong chess player for a very long time. He wasn’t particularly known for any specific stage of the game, but he was famous for being precise and playing principled moves, which may be most important in the latter stages of the game.
His endgames were sometimes smudged with errors, as opposed to those of modern grandmasters, but that is precisely what makes them very instructive. Learning chess from a perfectly played game is very hard!
The games I have covered are:
Emanuel Lasker – Georg Marco, Paris 1900
Frank James Marshall – Emanuel Lasker, 1907 W. Ch., Game 1
Emanuel Lasker – Akiba Rubinstein, St. Petersburg 1914
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
02:48 Emanuel Lasker – Georg Marco, Paris 1900
12:30 Frank James Marshall – Emanuel Lasker, 1907 W. Ch., Game 1
25:00 Emanuel Lasker – Akiba Rubinstein, St. Petersburg 1914
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