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Lasker Move by Move
By Zenón Franco
Published by Everyman Chess
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Emanuel Lasker was world champion for a remarkable 27 years (1894-1921) and is generally regarded as having been way ahead of his time in his understanding of chess. He primarily regarded chess as a fight and considered that the strongest move in a position was the one that created greatest problems for the opponent and not necessarily the one that was objectively “best”. His strengths included:
* His skill at accumulating small advantages with quiet manoeuvring.
* His astonishing ability to find tactical resources in defence.
* His uncanny knack of provoking errors in balanced positions.
Lasker was, essentially, a complete chessplayer and his games feel thoroughly modern. Indeed many contemporary elite players (the most obvious one being the current world champion Magnus Carlsen) exhibit a very similar style.
The Move by Move series provides an ideal format for the keen chessplayer to improve their game. While reading you are continually challenged to answer probing questions – a method that greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of chess knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study chess while providing the best possible chance to retain what has been learnt.
* His skill at accumulating small advantages with quiet manoeuvring.
* His astonishing ability to find tactical resources in defence.
* His uncanny knack of provoking errors in balanced positions.
Lasker was, essentially, a complete chessplayer and his games feel thoroughly modern. Indeed many contemporary elite players (the most obvious one being the current world champion Magnus Carlsen) exhibit a very similar style.
The Move by Move series provides an ideal format for the keen chessplayer to improve their game. While reading you are continually challenged to answer probing questions – a method that greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of chess knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study chess while providing the best possible chance to retain what has been learnt.
Product Details
- Publisher: Everyman Chess (January 7, 2019)
- Length: 448 pages
- ISBN13: 9781781944349
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Raves and Reviews
Lasker: Move by Move by Zenón Franco does justice to the great champion. Using the move by move format, which encourages active learning through questions and exercises, the Paraguayan grandmaster covers all aspects of the game. This is a well-researched book with Franco referencing and adding to Soltis and Nunn's work with the result that the annotations are more detailed than usual for books in the Move by Move series.
– John Donaldson, International master, International Master
Move by Move is a well worked out concept and I've again enjoyed a number of books from this series. I also enjoyed this one a lot.
– Matthew Sadler, New in Chess Magazine
Readers may be happy to sit back and enjoy a selection of extremely well-annotated games, but there are also plenty of pointers within which we can apply to our own games even in the 21st Century.
– CHESS Magazine
If you want to become acquainted with Lasker's play, then Lasker: Move by Move is a suitable guide. The games are fantastic. The explanations are plentiful without overburdening the reader in variations. There are ample diagrams. The reader will come away with the same awe and respect as the author for Lasker's strength and ingenuity. As Franco notes, “It has been a pleasure to ‘rediscover' the second world champion, Emanuel Lasker, in this, the 150th anniversary of his birth. I hope that the reader will also share that emotion.
– Mark Donlan, ChessCafe.com
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Lasker Move by Move
By Zenón Franco
Published by Everyman Chess
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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