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Lasker: Move by Move
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 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.
450 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 10, 2019
About the author
Zenón Franco Ocampos
54 books2 followersZenón Franco Ocampos was a chess grandmaster (GM) from Paraguay. In the 1982 Chess Olympiad at Lucerne, he won the gold medal at board one by scoring 11 of 13. In the 1990 Chess Olympiad at Novi Sad, he shared first place at board one with 9 points in 12 games. As of 2007, Franco was the top-ranked player and only GM in Paraguay (now, there are two GMs: Axel Bachmann and José Cubas). He wrote several books on chess for Gambit Publications under the name Zenón Franco.
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January 28, 2019
Weak. Barely three stars, I considered giving it two.
Riddled with errors, as most Franco books are - wrong dates, mis-numbered moves, illegal moves, etc. Particularly irksome was the incorrect use of Re6 when Ke6 was intended. This happened literally dozens of times (presumably mistranslation from a Spanish manuscript, since R is for Rey/King in Spanish?).
The analysis, with just a few exceptions, is lifted from earlier material uncritically, sometimes resulting in laughable oversights.
The Soltis or Nunn books on Lasker are much better than this one.
Riddled with errors, as most Franco books are - wrong dates, mis-numbered moves, illegal moves, etc. Particularly irksome was the incorrect use of Re6 when Ke6 was intended. This happened literally dozens of times (presumably mistranslation from a Spanish manuscript, since R is for Rey/King in Spanish?).
The analysis, with just a few exceptions, is lifted from earlier material uncritically, sometimes resulting in laughable oversights.
The Soltis or Nunn books on Lasker are much better than this one.
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