emanuel lasker: 58 brilliancies from his chess games
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Here is a collection of critical positions from the chess games of Emanuel Lasker. The reader is invited to discover the winning move or mate. The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first and plays from the bottom of the board. Solutions are found at the end of the pamphlet. Bill Harvey is the webmaster of the site wtharvey.com where you will find 10,000 chess puzzles from historic and modern games.TRANSCRIPT
Emanuel Lasker
58 brilliancies from his chess games
edited by Bill Harvey
8/30/2015
Here is a collection of critical positions from the chess games of Emanuel Lasker. The reader is invited to discover the winning move or mate. The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first and plays from the bottom of the board. Solutions are found at the end of the pamphlet. Bill Harvey is the webmaster of the site wtharvey.com where you will find 10,000 chess puzzles from historic and modern games.
1) Emanuel Lasker vs Jacques Mieses
Leipzig, 1889
White Mates in 6.
2) Emanuel Lasker vs Jacques Mieses
Leipzig, 1889
White mates in 4.
3) Jacques Mieses vs Emanuel Lasker
Leipzig, 1889
Black Mates in 5.
4) Emanuel Lasker vs Johann Bauer
Amsterdam, 1889
5) Henry Bird vs Emanuel Lasker Liverpool, 1890
6) Emanuel Lasker vs Henry Bird
Liverpool, 1890
White mates in 2.
7) Emanuel Lasker vs Theodor Von Scheve
Berlin, 1891
White Mates in 6.
8) Emanuel Lasker
vs Raimond New York, 1892
9) Henry Bird vs Emanuel Lasker
New Castle on Tyne, 1892
10) Joseph Blackburne vs Emanuel Lasker
London, 1892
11) Francis Lee vs Emanuel Lasker New York, 1893
12) Erich Schmidt vs Emanuel Lasker
New York, 1893
13) Emanuel Lasker vs Eduardo Vasquez
Habana, 1893
14) Emanuel Lasker vs Wilhelm Steinitz
New York, 1894
15) Emanuel Lasker vs Dawid Janowski
Hastings, 1895
16) Emanuel Lasker vs Harry Pillsbury
Hastings, 1895
17) Harry Pillsbury vs Emanuel Lasker
St. Petersburg, 1895
Black mates in 4.
18) Emanuel Lasker vs Mikhail Chigorin St Petersburg, 1895
19) Emanuel Lasker vs Isidor Gunsberg
Hastings, 1895
White mates in 3.
20) Henry Bird vs Emanuel Lasker Hastings, 1895
21) Geza Maroczy vs Emanuel Lasker
London, 1899
22) James Mason vs Emanuel Lasker
London, 1899
Black Mates in 2.
23) Emanuel Lasker
vs Francis Lee London, 1899
White mates in 3.
24) Emanuel Lasker vs Jacques Mieses
Paris, 1900
25) Emanuel Lasker vs NN
Great Britain, 1900
White mates in 3.
26) Emanuel Lasker
vs NN Great Britain, 1900
White mates in 3.
27) Emanuel Lasker
vs Meyer Prague, 1900
White mates in 4.
28) Emanuel Lasker vs Sufranek
Prague, 1900
White mates in 3.
29) Emanuel Lasker
vs L Pasternak Zuerich, 1900
White mates in 3.
30) Emanuel Lasker
vs Harry Wilson USA, 1901
White mates in 2.
31) Emanuel Lasker vs FW Lynn USA, 1902
White mates in 2.
32) Emanuel Lasker
vs J Muirhead USA, 1902
White mates in 3.
33) Emanuel Lasker
vs AO Wuensche USA, 1902
White mates in 2.
34) Emanuel Lasker vs Mikhail Chigorin
Brighton, 1903
35) Emanuel Lasker vs NN
Manchester, 1903
White mates in 2.
36) Rudolf Raubitschek
vs Emanuel Lasker Trenton Falls, 1906
Black mates in 4.
37) M Morgan vs Emanuel Lasker
USA, 1907
Black mates in 4.
38) Emanuel Lasker
vs Randolph USA, 1907
White mates in 3.
39) Emanuel Lasker
vs Broderson Netherlands, 1908
White mates in 4.
40) Emanuel Lasker vs Fortuijn
Netherlands, 1908
White mates in 2.
41) Emanuel Lasker vs Siegbert Tarrasch
Dusseldorf, 1908
White Mates in 8.
42) Siegbert Tarrasch
vs Emanuel Lasker Dusseldorf, 1908
43) A Lasker vs Emanuel Lasker Breslau, 1909
Black mates in 4.
44) Emanuel Lasker
vs Oldrich Duras St Petersburg, 1909
45) Emanuel Lasker vs Richard Teichmann St Petersburg, 1909
46) Emanuel Lasker vs Dawid Janowski
Paris, 1909
47) David Janowski vs Emanuel Lasker
Paris, 1909
48) Emanuel Lasker vs Dawid Janowski
Berlin, 1910
49) Emanuel Lasker vs Dawid Janowski
Berlin, 1910
50) Dawid Janowski vs Emanuel Lasker
Paris, 1912
51) Emanuel Lasker vs Frank Marshall
St. Petersburg, 1914
White mates in 3.
52) Emanuel Lasker vs Fritz Englund
Scheveningen, 1913
White Mates in 2.
53) Emanuel Lasker
vs Allies Riazan, 1914
54) Max Walter vs Emanuel Lasker Ostrava, 1923
Black mates in 3.
55) JM Ovadia vs Emanuel Lasker Yugoslavia, 1924
Black mates in 4.
56) M Ley vs
Emanuel Lasker USA, 1926
Black mates in 2.
57) Emanuel Lasker
vs Buchholtz Copenhagen, 1927
White mates in 4.
58) Emanuel Lasker vs J Troxler
Lucerne, 1935
Solutions 1) 1.Qf7+ Kh6 2.Qxg6+ Kxg6 3.Rg3+ Kh7 4.Bd3+ 2) 1.Re3 g5 2.Rd6 3) 1...Rd1+ 2.Rf1 Qe4 4) 1.Bxg7 Kxg7 2.Qg4+ & 3.Rf3 5) 1...Nd3 if 2.Rxe5 Ra1+ mates 6) 1.Ng5+ 7) 1.Qe6 h5 (if 1...Qxf2 2.Qf7+ & 3.Qh7+) 2.Qf7+ Kf5 3.Re6 8) 1.Rg4 w/2.Bxf4+ 9) 1...Qe1+ 2.Kh2 Qh4+ 3.Kg1 Qxd8 10) 1...f4 11) 1...d2 w/2...Nxc3 12) 1...Rb6 if 2.Nd8 Rf8 or if 2.Na5 Rb1+ 13) 1.Qh3 if 1...h6 2.Nxh6+ mates 14) 1.Qg1+ d4 2.Qg5+ w/3.Rf5
15) 1.Nd6 if 1...Qe6 2.Rxc8 & 3.Bxf5 16) 1.Qxb7 17) 1...b5+ 2.Kxb5 Qc4+ 3.Ka5 Bd8+ 18) 1.Qd4 w/2.Qh8+ or 2.Qd8+ 19) 1.Nf7+ 20) 1...Re8 21) 1...Nb3 if 2.Rad1 Nd2 22)1...Qc3+ 23) 1Ne5+ if 1...Kh5 2.Qe2+ or if 1...Kh3 2.Qf1+ 24) 1Nc6 if 1...Qxc6 2.Qe7+ & 3.Qxd8+ or if 1...Ra8 2.Qc5+ w/3.Ne7+ 25) 1.Rxh7+ Rxh7 2.Qg8+ 26) 1.Qe8+ 27) 1.Rf8+ Ke5 2.Re8+ Kf4 3.Rd4+ 28) 1.Re4+ Kf5 2.Re3+ Kf4 3.g3# 29) 1.Rf7+ Kh6 2.Bf4+ 30) 1.f6 31) 1.Qxg6+ 32) 1.Qxh7+ 33) 1.Bb5+ 34) 1.Qd4 35) 1.Bf4+ 36) 1...Rxh2+ if 2.Kg1 Rh1+ 3.Kxh1 Qh3+ 4.Kg1 Ne2#
37)1...Qf3+ 2.Kxe5 f6+ 3.Ke6 Qe3+ 38) 1.Qd4+ f6 2.Rxh7+ 39) 1.Rxd6 if 1...Rg8 2.Rd8 40) 1.Qxh7+ 41) 1.Bh5+ Rg6 2.Rxe6+ Nxe6 3.Bxg6+ hxg6 4.Qxe6+ 42) 1...f3 if 2.gxf3 Bg5 43) 1...Qxf2+ 2.Kxe4 Bf5+ 44) 1.Nd2+ w/2.Nb3+ 45) 1.e7 if 1…Bxe7 (if 1…Rf7 2.Bg6 & 3.Qxe5+) 2.Bxf4 & if 2…Qe6 3.Rxg7+ Kxg7 4.Rg1+ 46) 1.Bb3+ if 1…d5 2.Bxd5 & if 2…Nxd5 3.Qh7# 47) 1...g4 w/2...Ng5 48) 1.Rxd5 if 1…Rxd5 2.Qxd5 49) 1.g4 Rh6 2.Nf5 50) 1...hxg4 2.Qxg4 Nf5 51) 1.Qa7+ Kc8 2.Qa8+ 52) 1.Qxc6+ 53) 1.Bc4 w/2.Rh6 54) 1...Rg6+ if 2.Kh1 Qxf3+ 55) 1...Rxf3+ 2.Kxf3 Qh3+ 3.Rg3 Qf5+ 56) 1...Qh5+ 57) 1.Bg5+ Qf6 2.Bxf6+ 58) 1.Ng5+