Chess Tactics: Edward Lasker – G. Thomas (London, 1912)
Interesting chess game presented by Serguei Vorojtsov. Subscribe to my channel & newsletter at www.vorojtsov.net High resolution videos are available here stores.lulu.com — Edward Lasker (Kempen, December 3, 1885 — New York, March 25, 1981) was a leading American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author. Edward Lasker published several books on American checkers, chess, and Go. He won five US Open Chess Championships (1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921). His best result was his narrow 8.5–9.5 loss in a match with Frank Marshall for the US Championship in 1923. For that, Lasker was invited to participate in the legendary order antibiotics online New York chess tournament in 1924, facing world-class masters like Alekhine, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Emanuel Lasker (a distant cousin), and RĂ©ti. — His most famous game is probably the queen sacrifice and king hunt against Sir George Thomas. Thomas said, “That was very nice”, and Lasker was touched by his sportsmanship when it was translated into German (he had yet to learn English). But in his account, he gave a position missing the white pawn on d4, so Lasker contrasted Thomas’s reaction with a typical reaction that other opponents would have given, “You were lucky …” — He was friends with former World chess champion Emanuel Lasker. Some controversy exists as to whether they were related. Edward Lasker wrote in his memoirs of the New York 1924 …

when black king is on f3 towards the end, the white bishop could of mated on bishop e4
@CalmedNutHead If u look at the board more clearly, there’s a bishop at b7 so mate can’t be possible.
@CalmedNutHead, you r wrong, black has a bishop in that diagonal
Nope, because black still has his bishop on b7
this game actually made me laugh, my favorite
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no, I thought so too, but the Black Bishop on b7 would stop the mate.
mate by castling!
what about Kf1 instead of Be2 stopping the black king from goin to g2 and the next move will be Nh2 mate seems simpler
That’s fucking awesome! I’d never be able to think that many steps ahead.
This is what I would’ve done: Puase at 1:12. Move Knight to c5, hope Black takes that Knight, then mate him with Queen gaurded by bishop at h7. IDK if that’s understandable; I’m not too familiar with kf1 Be2
They way Lasker played was basically toying with Thomas.
Kf1 fails because its not check and after black captures the knight on f6, with say gxf6, e4 is no longer covered and will thus allow the king to use that square to escape the bishop check. Anytime you give up your queen you must force mate by checking or be sure you have time to play non checking in-between moves.
INCREDIBLE …
when ur checked, are u allowed to put another piece in front of the king? or can u only move the king
disturbingly well played
thats how you do it in style
That was incredibly awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, you are allowed to block an attack with another piece.
You can move the the king, capture the checking piece, or block the checking piece. However, if it’s a double check you can only move the king (as it’s impossible to block or capture two checking pieces in one move).
lol king got all the way over, that guy had to be a superubermegagrandmaster of chess to do that!!!
This was in Eduard Gufeld’s Improving in Chess by Tactics, and for good reason. It’s a real mind boggler.
I love this video!
when king is on f3, black bishop to e4 is check mate, i guess Lasker wanted to humiliate his opponent lol
oh sorry just saw the black bishop, ignore my last comment heh
Holy shit. Castling to mate would devastate him.
wow ,what a game
amazing check mate