Lasker's How to Play Chess by Emanuel Lasker (Vintage HC, VG)

Description: TITLE: Lasker's How to Play Chess: An Elementary Text Book for Beginners which teaches Chess by a new, easy and comprehensive methodAUTHOR: Emanuel Lasker INTRODUCTION: W.H. Watts PUBLISHER: This edition published by Gramercy Publishers Co. (ca 1970), a subsidiary of Crown Publishers Inc., by arrangement with the original publisher (Bell. 1950). EDITION: Undated. Marked with a "P". DESCRIPTION/CONDITIONVintage Hardcover with dust jacket wrapped in archival quality clear wrapper. Red boards bright & clean. Overall VERY GOOD condition. Book: Very Good+; Binding is tight, pages are complete, unmarked with no tears of creases.Dust Jacket: G+; some wear, age spots & small tears. wrapped in archival quality clear wrapper.Dimensions: 8 1/4" x 5 5/8" x 1/2"; Pages: 107; Weight: 8.4 oz (Pkgd Wgt: 1 lb) ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Emanuel Lasker (b. 12/24/1868; d. 1/11/1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion in history. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players in history. His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents. Recent analysis, however, indicates that he was ahead of his time and used a more flexible approach than his contemporaries, which mystified many of them. Lasker knew contemporary analyses of openings well but disagreed with many of them. He published chess magazines and five chess books, but later players and commentators found it difficult to draw lessons from his methods.

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