The Livingston County Chess Club meets every Monday night between
4pm and 10pm
at the Buffalo Wild Wings in
the Green Oak Mall in Brighton, MI.
Stop in for some friendly chess, good food
and 'refreshments'.
Everyone of all ages and playing strength are
welcome to attend. And free lessons to all beginners!
We will be having our free Quick Tournament starting next week. "Quick" means a 15-minute time limit per game and two rounds a night for probably 2 consecutive Monday nights.
This should make for some exciting chess and a fun time. Be sure to be at the Club for this event probably starting around 6:30 pm.
Casual chess and early entry into the tournament is the plan for tonight.
Now, Writers Who Have Changed Chess History - Part III
Dr. Emanuel Lasker was perhaps the
most remarkable man ever to achieve eminence in the chess world.
That statement in itself tells you
all you need to know as we go thru this list of chess writers that have changed
history.
He was chess world champion for 27
years! The longest reign of any champion in chess history. From 1894 when he
beat Steinitz, until 1921 when he lost to Capablanca.
And he maintained his chess skills for almost all of his life.
In 1935, in the Moscow Championship, at the age of
67, he finished 3rd behind Botvinnik and Flohr by a half-point, finishing ahead
of Capablanca by a half point!
Dr. Lasker was also a mathematician
of caliber sufficient to earn praise from Albert Einstein - whoever he is.
Meanwhile, I am still working on my "gozintas". You know, like 3 gozinta 9, 3 times? I think
Dr. Lasker also was a first-class
bridge, Go and dominos player and even invented a game called
"Lasca", a variant of checkers.
The famous chess book he wrote was called
"Common Sense in Chess" was a small work of only 141 pages, but it
was published all over the world!
Lasker's 4 rules for development
are:
> Do not move any pawns in the
opening except the D and E pawns.
> Do not move any piece twice in
the opening
> Bring knights out before
bishops
> Do not pin your opponent's
knights before your opponent castles
Dr. Lasker had a brother Frank who also was a chess player, but no where near Emanuel in strength, but very few were.
Edward Lasker, a grandmaster that came along later, claimed to be distantly related to Emanuel but that could not be substantiated beyond all doubt. Possible, but not proven historians say.
Emanuel and Edward did play against each other in a 1924 tournament in New York with Emanuel winning the tournament and beating his much less famous namesake 1-0-1 in their meetings in that tournament.
