Edward Lasker (Breslau, 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. Wrocław. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ...

Background

He was born in Breslau, then Germany now Poland. During World War I he moved first to England and then to America, the birthplace of his mother. When America entered the war, he was sent enlistment papers, but with the right of exemption as a German. But he waived his right to exemption, which he said made it much quicker to be granted American citizenship, although the war was over before he was called up. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

Science career

Lasker earned a doctoral degree at the University of Berlin in mechanical and electrical engineering. He also invented the breast pump, which saved many premature infants' lives and made Lasker a lot of money, although it caused his friends to refer to him facetiously as "the chest player."   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... The Ford Essex V6 engine Mechanical engineering is the application of physical principles to the creation of useful WESTCOUNTYJACKASS.COM reality for machine design. ... Electrical engineering - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Manual breast pump A breast pump is a mechanical or electrical device that extracts milk from the breasts of a woman who is breastfeeding. ...

Chess

Edward Lasker published several books on American checkers, chess, and go. His best result was his narrow 8.5–9.5 loss in a match with Frank Marshall for the U.S. 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, Lasker, and Réti. English draughts, also called American checkers or straight checkers, commonly called checkers in the U.S., but commonly called draughts in some other countries, is a form of the draughts board game played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only move and capture... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... This article is about the early 20th century chess champion. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alexander Alekhine Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled Aljechin) (in Russian, Александр Александрович Алë́хин), (October 31 or November 1, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a chess master and a former World Chess Champion. ... José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 - March 8, 1942) was a Cuban world-class chess player in the early to mid-twentieth century. ... Akiba Rubinstein (born 12 December 1882, died 15 March 1961 in Antwerp) was a brilliant Polish chess master and a famous grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). ... Richard Réti (1889 – 1929) was a Czechoslovakian chess player, although he was born in what was then Hungary. ...

His most famous game is probably the queen sacrifice and king hunt against Sir George Thomas.[1] 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 ..." Sir George Alan Thomas (1881-1972) was a British chess, badminton and tennis player. ...

Although Lasker had a negative record against Capablanca, without a win, he had a drawn game against Capablanca with black pieces in New York in 1924.[2] Lasker wasn't usually so fortunate, e.g. Capablanca once arrived with only one minute to spare, and Lasker played the Riga variation with which he had some experience, but Capablanca found an advantageous continuation over the board.[3] José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 - March 8, 1942) was a famous Cuban chess player in the early to mid twentieth century. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He lived on the Upper West Side of New York City at the time of his death. The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...

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 tournament as published in the March 1974 edition of Chess Life magazine: "I did not discover that we were actually related until he (Emanuel Lasker) told me shortly before his death that someone had shown him a Lasker family tree on one of whose branches I was dangling." The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (left) and Garry Kasparov (right). ... Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Books

• Chess Strategy, 1915 (second edition)
• Chess and Checkers: the Way to Mastership, 1918
• Go and Go-Moku, 1934 (2nd ed. 1960)
• The Adventure of Chess, 1949 (2nd ed. 1959), ISBN 048620510.
• Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters (semi-autobiographical and instructional) (1951, 1969) ISBN 0486222667.

Quotes

• "It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he buys more books than he can read. I should like to suggest that the inclusion of a few chess books would help to make the distinction unmistakable." — The Adventure of Chess

External links

• Lasker vs Thomas game, one of the most famous games in chess history (requires Java plugin)