Talk:Emanuel Lasker
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I have removed the following from the "quotations" section:
- - The game of chess... is not a game. It is a fierce mental struggle between two combatants. During the course of the game I am no longer Emanuel Lasker. I become... something else, entirely, that horrible "other" which, outside of the chess board, only shows himself in strange dreams and flights of fancy. The greatest chess player is that man who, in deliberating upon the best moves, lets himself be guided by the moon of his non-being.
I've not read everything Lasker ever wrote, but I am skeptical in part because the person who added the above also added some questionable "information" to the John Nunn article (see Talk:John Nunn). If somebody has a source, fine, but I'd be uncomfortable seeing it added back without one.
On a similar note, if anybody has a source for the quote about Go, it would certainly be good to include it (I don't really doubt Lasker said it somewhere - it certainly seems more likely than the above and I know he was interested in a range of games - but we should always give sources for these kind of things). While we're on the subject, does anybody have a page number for the Manual of Chess quote? Just for my own gratification... --Camembert 19:51, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I very much doubt that the game presented in this article can be considered one of the best ever! It is very interesting, but the combination is not very deep, and arguing that both bishops were sacrificed is excesive, given that the light bishop was rather exchanged for a knight and a pawn!
Regarding the double bishop sacrifice, a similar sacrifice occured in Burn-Owen, 1884 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272117), so Lasker's was not the first.
- You are true, but in this case the sacrifice was a fiasco; so Lasker was at least the first known person who used this type of combination with success.--Ioannes Pragensis 17:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] wtf --- life, childhood, etc??
was this article vandalized or did it just not occur to anyone to include any information about the life of Lasker (other than being made to leave Germany for being Jewish)??? early life? family background? when did he start playing, how? etc. kthx.
[edit] Quote
- "Chess is a game restricted to this world, Go has something extraterrestrial. If ever we find an extraterrestrial civilisation that plays a game that we also play, it will be Go, without any doubt."
was removed from this page by User:Sibahi, who said that "I believe the omitted quotation is by Edward Lasker, not Emanuel". A Google search turns up a handful of pages and nothing definitive, but also attributes it to Albert Einstein, which indicates it predates Edward Lasker, and there's at least one page (apparently independent of Wikipedia) that attributes it to Emanuel.--Prosfilaes 13:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
