Edward Lasker-Chess Strategy (2nd edition, 1915).pdf

Chess Strategy

Second Edition (1915)

Edward Lasker

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

PART I

I. INTRODUCTORY

I. Rules of the Game

II. Notation

II. HINTS FOR BEGINNERS

Elementary Combinations

Simple Calculation Complications

III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHESS STRATEGY

Introductory

Balance of Attack and Defence

Mobility

IV. THE OPENING

Development of the Pieces

On Losing Moves

Examples of Practical Play

Pawn Play

Pawn Skeleton

The Centre

A. King's Pawn Games

B. Queen's Pawn Games

C. Irregular Openings

V. THE END-GAME

End-games with Pieces

Pawn Endings Mixed

Endings

END-GAMES FROM MASTER-PLAY

Teichmann-Blackburne (Berlin, 1897)

Ed. Lasker-Rotlewi (Hamburg, 1910)

Blackburne-Schlechter (Vienna, 1898)

Bird-Janowski (Hastings, 1895)

Steiner-Forgacz (Szekesfehervar, 1907)

Charousek-Heinrichsen (Cologne, 1898)

VI. THE MIDDLE GAME

General Remarks

Evolution of the Pawn Skeleton

Objects of Attack

"Backward" Pawns

On Fixing a Weakness

Weaknesses in a Pawn Position

Breaking up the King's Side

Doubled Pawns

Illustrations—

v. Scheve-Teichmann (Berlin, 1907)

Marshall-Burn (Ostend, 1907)

Manoeuvres of the Pieces Open Files and Diagonals

Example—

Fred. Lazard-Ed. Lasker (Paris, 1914)

PART II

ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES FROM MASTER TOURNAMENTS

1. Tartakower-Burn (Carlsbad, 1911)

2. Leonhardt-Marshall (San Sebastian, 1911)

3. Spielmann-Prokes (Prag, 1908)

4. Tarrasch-Capablanca (San Sebastian, 1911)

4a. Howell-Michell (Cable Match, 1907)

4b. X. v. Y

5. Griffith-Gunston (London, 1902)

6. Mason-Gunsberg (New York, 1889)

7. Marshall-Tarrasch (Hamburg, 1910)

8. Blackburne-Em. Lasker (Petrograd, 1914)

9. Salwe-Marshall (Vienna, 1908)

10. Teichmann-Amateurs (Glasgow, 1902)

11. Schlechter-Janowski (Paris, 1900)

12. Teichmann-Rubinstein (Carlsbad, 1911)

13. Teichmann-Schlechter (Carlsbad, 1911)

14. Spielmann-Tarrasch (San Sebastian, 1912)

15. Aljechin-Niemzowitsch (Petrograd, 1914)

16. Yates-Gunsberg (Chester, 1914)

17. Berlin-Riga (1908-1909)

17a. Maroczy-Berger (Vienna, 1908)

18. Em. Lasker-Capablanca (Petrograd, 1914)

19. Ed. Lasker-Janowski (Scheveningen, 1913)

20. Ed. Lasker-Englund (Scheveningen, 1913)

21. Lasker-Aljechin (Scheveningen, 1913)

22. Forgacz-Tartakower (Petrograd, 1909)

23. Yates-Esser (Anglo-Dutch Match, 1914)

24. Atkins-Barry (Cable Match, 1910)

25. Lasker-Tarrasch (Munich, 1908)

26. Capablanca-Blanco (Havanna, 1913)

27. Niemzowitsch-Tarrasch (San Sebastian, 1912)

28. Alapin-Rubinstein (Wilna, 1912)

29. Teichmann-Spielmann (Leipzig, 1914)

30. Tarrasch-Spielmann (Mannheim, 1914)

31. John-Janowski (Mannheim, 1914)

32. Laskcr-Mieses (Scheveningen, 1913)

33. Barasz-Mieses (Breslau, 1012)

34. Lasker-Niemzowitsch (Petrograd, 1914)

35. Reti-Tartakower (Vienna, 1910)

36. ForgaczCohn (Petrograd, 1909)

37. Marshall-Capablanca (New York, 1909)

38. Rotlewi-Teichmann (Carlsbad, 1911)

38a. Rubinstein-Teichmann (Vienna, 1908)

39. Rotlewi-Rubinstein (Lodz, 1907)

40. Rubinstein-Capablanca (San Sebastian, 1911)

41. Niemzowitsch-Tarrasch (Petrograd, 1914)

41a. Lasker-Bauer (Amsterdam, 1889)

42. Capablanca-Aljechin (Petrograd, 1913)

43. Capablanca-Bernstein (Petrograd, 1914)

44. Dus Chotimirski-Vidmar (Carlsbad, 1911)

45. Rubinstein-Spielmann (Pistyan, 1912)

46. Thomas-Lasker (London, 1912)

47. Tartakower-Asztalos (Budapest, 1913)

47a. Tartakower-Spielmann (Vienna, 1913)

47b. X v. Y

48. Blackburne-Niemzowitsch (Petrograd, 1914)

TABLE OF OPENINGS

A. King's Pawn Games

B. Queen's Pawn Games

C. Irregular Openings

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

As the first edition of Edward Laskcr's CHESS STRATEGY was exhausted within a

comparatively short time of its appearance, the author set himself the task of altering

and improving the work to such an extent that it became to all intents and purposes a

new book. I had the privilege of co-operating with him to a slight degree on that

second edition, and was in consequence able to appreciate the tremendous amount of

work he voluntarily took upon himself to do; I say voluntarily, because his publishers,

anxious to supply the strong demand for the book, wished to reprint it as it stood.

A little later I undertook to translate this second edition into English for Messrs. Bell

& Sons. Only a few months had elapsed, the tournaments at Petrograd, Chester, and

Mannheim had taken place, several new discoveries had been made, and it is the

greatest testimony to Edward Lasker's indefatigable devotion to the Art of Chess that I

am able to say that this is not a translation of the second edition, but of what is

practically a new book. It contains a new preface, a chapter for beginners, a new

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