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 New York chess tournament in 1924, facing world-class masters like Alekhine, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Emanuel Lasker (a distant cousin), and Réti. — 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 …
Yes, you are allowed to block an attack with another piece.
Comment by InsaneCranium — March 19, 2010 @ 2:47 am
That was incredibly awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by VitalSigns1 — March 19, 2010 @ 3:12 am
thats how you do it in style
Comment by liam4754 — March 19, 2010 @ 3:15 am
disturbingly well played
Comment by CalmedNutHead — March 19, 2010 @ 4:13 am
when ur checked, are u allowed to put another piece in front of the king? or can u only move the king
Comment by rcminit109 — March 19, 2010 @ 4:57 am
INCREDIBLE …
Comment by jasoncarby — March 19, 2010 @ 5:07 am
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.
Comment by luke19631963 — March 19, 2010 @ 5:07 am
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.
Comment by SnozzberryOnTheRocks — March 19, 2010 @ 5:09 am
what about Kf1 instead of Be2 stopping the black king from goin to g2 and the next move will be Nh2 mate seems simpler
Comment by denimjackets — March 19, 2010 @ 5:16 am
mate by castling!
Comment by tuzmor — March 19, 2010 @ 5:40 am
no, I thought so too, but the Black Bishop on b7 would stop the mate.
Comment by dilbertfungoing — March 19, 2010 @ 5:54 am
this game actually made me laugh, my favorite
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Comment by boogieelephant — March 19, 2010 @ 6:23 am
Nope, because black still has his bishop on b7
Comment by ghember — March 19, 2010 @ 6:29 am
@CalmedNutHead, you r wrong, black has a bishop in that diagonal
Comment by lalo2099 — March 19, 2010 @ 6:43 am
@CalmedNutHead If u look at the board more clearly, there’s a bishop at b7 so mate can’t be possible.
Comment by eternalpeacemaker — March 19, 2010 @ 7:25 am
when black king is on f3 towards the end, the white bishop could of mated on bishop e4
Comment by CalmedNutHead — March 19, 2010 @ 7:28 am
what are you talking about? thats the move BEFORE. He move Black king from
f4 to F3.
After that white bishop move to E2 ,but someone told to mov to E4 instead.Black bishop on B7 will take if you go E4.
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Comment by jagjagjag009 — March 19, 2010 @ 8:08 am
anyway b7 still cant cuz king is checked by g3
Comment by andrew9592 — March 19, 2010 @ 8:44 am
russki petrusski xP
Comment by snortyre — March 19, 2010 @ 9:10 am
???what?
Comment by NosferatuD — March 19, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Geez…..That’s a totally ridiculous square for black’s king to be at. That’s like being teleported to the enemy camp while sitting on the can.
Comment by NosferatuD — March 19, 2010 @ 10:38 am
@ samankurdy : )
Comment by TheManowarBabsi — March 19, 2010 @ 10:54 am
bishop b7 interrupts your mate threat
Comment by TheManowarBabsi — March 19, 2010 @ 11:50 am
come on sergey, bout time we had some new vids to watch.
Comment by ooooooohmy — March 19, 2010 @ 11:54 am
Awesome combo!
Comment by Goupil68 — March 19, 2010 @ 12:34 pm