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This book and its companion, published by Chess Stars and available at gmchess.com,present the entire collection of Lasker's games, over a period of 43 years.No player ever has maintained such a high level oif play over such a long period, except perhaps Korchnoi, but it is unlikely that he ever reached Lasker's level, at least when compared to his peers.Lasker's games are endlessly fascinating.You can see him play Steinitz, Alekhine, and Botvinnik; the King's Gambit and the King's Indian.He was there for a lot of history.He was a tenacious fighter, at every stage of the game.These books are amazing games collections to have.All fo the games are annotaed, some heavily, in Informator style.I am very gald that I have these books. ... Read more

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Chapters: Emanuel Lasker, Adolf Anderssen, Siegbert Tarrasch, Edward Lasker, Johannes Zukertort, Erich Eliskases, Efim Bogoljubov, Artur Yusupov, Vlastimil Hort, Lothar Schmid, Sonja Graf, Ludwig Bledow, Tassilo Von Heydebrand Und Der Lasa, Hans-Joachim Hecht, Teodor Regedziński, Paul Felix Schmidt, Kurt Richter, Luděk Pachman, Francisco Benkö, Isaac Rice, Paul Michel, Ludwig Engels, Helmut Pfleger, Rudolf Von Gottschall, Viktor Knorre, Louis Eichborn, Klaus Junge, Lionel Kieseritzky, Robert Hübner, Rainer Knaak, Albert Becker, Eric Lobron, Daniel Fridman, Karl Gilg, Yosef Porath, Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Wolfgang Unzicker, Leonid Kubbel, Igor Glek, Hermann Von Gottschall, Walter Niephaus, Carl August Walbrodt, Max Blümich, Georg Klaus, Rustem Dautov, Paul Mross, Karsten Müller, Erich Cohn, Georg Schories, Arno Nickel, Walther Von Holzhausen, Bernhard Gregory, Jacques Mieses, Emil Josef Diemer, Oscar Tenner, Rudolf Swiderski, Herbert Heinicke, Leon Tuhan-Baranowski, Theodor Von Scheve, Daniel Harrwitz, Carl Ahues, Igor Khenkin, Jean Dufresne, Moritz Lewitt, Karl Helling, Friedrich Sämisch, Willi Schlage, Adolf Seitz, Alfred Brinckmann, Hugo Süchting, Lev Gutman, Jan Gustafsson, Simon Rotenstein, Edith Keller-Herrmann, Heinrich Reinhardt, Johannes Kohtz, Hartwig Cassel, Heinz Nowarra, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Richard Teichmann, Aaron Alexandre, Bernhard Kagan, Elisabeth Pähtz, Herman Pilnik, Rudolf Teschner, Berthold Lasker, Emil Schallopp, Martin Kreuzer, Wolfgang Heidenfeld, Gottlieb Machate, Louis Paulsen, Walter John, Sammi Fajarowicz, Bernhard Horwitz, Paul Krüger, Rudolf Pitschak, Alexander Fritz, Gerardo Budowski, Heinrich Wagner, Paul List, Franz Pachl, Max Lange, Johannes Minckwitz, Theodor Lichtenhein, Ehrhardt Post, Berthold Suhle, Ludwig Rödl, Philipp Hirschfeld, Wilfried Paulsen, Gustav Neumann, Curt Von Bardeleben, Klaus Darga, Johannes Metger, Ludwig Schmitt, Moses Hirs...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=244649 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move", pronounced [?tsu?ktsva?]) is a term originally used in chess which also applies to various other games. The concept finds its formal definition in combinatorial game theory. It describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move ? the player would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it is his opponent's turn to move.In game theory, it specifically means that it directly changes the outcome of the game from a win to a loss. The term is used less precisely in games such as chess; e.g., the game theory definition is not necessarily used in chess (Berlekamp, Conway & Guy 1982:16), (Elkies 1996:136). ... Read more