Explanation about Lasker‘s origin for those interested: 1. Prussia was a German Kingdom that developed out of the House Brandenburg following the 30 Years war (1618-1648) that encompassed today‘s east Germany and parts of Poland. 2. Back in 1868 Poland didn’t exist anymore and instead had been divided by Austria-Hungary, Prussia and Russia shortly after the Silesean Wars. 3. Following the Austro German War as well as the Franco German War in the 19th century (both fought with Otto von Bismarck as chancellor which most US people should know as Bismarck North Dakota is named after him) the German Federation was abolished and in it‘s state The German Reich under the then Emperor of Prussia was formed. While this included all minor states like Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Saxony etc., they all decided to be integrated under Prussian rule, as all these states were made of germanic People the name was changed from Prussia to German Reich. 4. After World War I Poland was restored and after World War 2 most of original Prussian territory was given to either Russia (e.g the old capital of Prussia Königsberg, now known as Kaliningrad) or to Poland. 5. Because of this Lasker was born in Prussia as back in the day it was still a Kingdom, then it became the German Reich making him German by default (but also still prussian if you want to be exact) and after his death that became polish territory, so while he was a german national his birthplace similar to my own grandfather for example and many more people is now on polish territory and soil. Basically it would be the same as somebody born in Louisiana would be french (prussian) before the Louisiana purchase, which would make the territory US american (polish) nowadays, with an extra step in between.
or to make it short, Pomerania had been slowly colonized by ethnical "Germans" since the middle ages (although Germany and Germans didn't really exist back then), but after WW2 the territory was given to Poland, so Berlinchen is Polish and called Barlinek. not really overly confusing, loads of territories in Europe changed hands from 1000 to 2000 AD.
For anyone as bad at geography as Ben (Americans): Prussia was the largest German state which later was the driving force behind the formation of the German empire (see Bismarck, etc., mostly etc.). Part of Prussia was pretty far in the East in what is now Poland, Russia (if you can call it Russia), and Lithuania (see Ostpreußen). Germans were the ethnical majority there, especially in the cities, but that all changed in the 1940s-50s (see Hitler, WW2, etc.).
@@kourii People usually call it kaliningrad. Yeah it's Russia but its not Russia Russia. Nobody calls Gibraltar the UK even though it is. Well, kinda sorta but not really technically but you get the point.
Most of Prussia is in Russia now. Some in Poland and some in Lithuania. Brandenburg is an Elector seat in the Holy Roman Empire, which Prussia wasn't apart of
i don't know any Netflix comedy specials but from what i know of comedy today i'm fine with just watching my favourite (and/or least favourite) GM lecturing on old chess players
Lasker's Manual of Chess was the first chess book I ever read. I read it many times and now I own it. I first read it in 1981 and I just bought it this year.
It was common to decline challenges for the world title at that time because the champions always asked for a large amount of money to challenge them. Capablanca while he was champion refused challenges from Alekhine, Réti, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein.
@juccusell goldman/wiki: "lasker was world champion for 27 years." 1h later... jccusell: "lasker was 21 years long world champion." ladies and gentlemen, a fool writes a comment. his historical elo was about 2878 and he was #1 ranked for about 25 years. last time between 1924-1927, when he was already 56 years old.
One thing I don't think Steinitz can be accused of is ducking strong opponents. He's the only world champion history who was given carte blanche by backers to pick his own challenger (1889), and he responded by picking the strongest challenger possible.
It eludes me why Lasker is not appreciated more. World champion for 27 years, dominated everyone when he burst on the scene in the late 19th century, then did not play that much as there were few competitors, and he was more interested in mathematics and philosophy. Then, when a new generation of masters emerged, led by Capablanca and Rubinstein, he upped his game and was competitive with them well into his 50s. One of the most dominant and long lived champions in chess history, and at least in terms of historical achievement, he should make everybody’s top five
The area around Gdansk was prussia and they became a German state, after the war that region was given to Poland. But most people born during that period from that area consider themselves German.
He was not born close to Gdansk, more close to Berlin close after today's boarder to Poland. Prussia was part of Germany. When Lasker was born, Germany was still not united. That came when he was three. Much like Washington was born before the USA existed, but still Washington was American. When Lasker died, the Nazis had disgracefully stripped Lasker from German citizenship, but no doubt he was German and Prussian.
Lasker was not born in the area around Gdansk. The area around Gdansk has always been ethnically Polish (while Gdansk was ethnically German since the 13th century).
7 or 8 years ago one of my friends wanted to play 1v1 basketball match and he was very sure he would beat me. I beated him 11 to 1 after which he said that he lost because of the rain (light rain was falling while we were playing). I told him well, rain was falling for me as well.
OMG I love your videos! I didn't expect to see you here. I guess it makes sense: one analyzes tactics and strategies in the ring, the other on the chess board. Y'all aren't that different
Contract bridge dates from circa 1925. My second-favourite draw of all time is probably Lasker-Lasker from New York 1924 with the black king unable to get around the rook in time to win.
Contract Bridge invented in 1925, so after Lasker lost his chess title. People did play a lot of Bridge in earlier days, just not Contract Bridge, so they didn't have to bid 7 to win a grand slam - they got the bonus for just taking all the tricks, even if the bid was only 1.
Can't believe they didn't get those 'Falling Down' references. Talk about an endgame, that movie is great and should be required viewing. "You have a choice. I can kill you. Or you can kill me, and my daughter will get the insurance." It doesn't get more chess than that.
Technically not true. In 1871 the Southern States entered the "Norddeutsche Bund" that was established in 1867 and the Bund changed his name to Deutsches Reich. So Lasker was born when "Germany" was already established.
26:55 I watched this lecture a few times now (huge Lasker & Finegold fan here) and this may well be my favourite Finegold moment... his acting is just so perfect, I can't stop lauging XD thanks Ben PS 36:40 and "Falling Down" is one of my all-time favourite movies too... perfectest lecture ever
GM Robert Hübner considers Em. Lasker the best chess player of all time. In some also historically and philosophically thorough examinations Hübner studied games and some whole matches of Lasker in detail (unfortunately the publications are only in German, as far as I know, which might also be the reason why the English Wikipedia doesn't take these works into account) and proved that Lasker did not "play psychologically" (as was often claimed and still is), getting to the bottom of this myth. Hübner also wrote an interesting article on the general literature by and about Lasker. Hübner did what Lasker himself was not too fond of doing (and in which Tarrasch also did much more substantial work than Lasker): thorough chess analyses (by humans).
I consider Lasker better than Capablanca. They competed in a lot of tournaments and Lasker won all of them. Capa rolled him in the world championship when Lasker was old, not used to the Cuban heat, and was ready to retire.
@@12jswilson It's hard to say, and my opinion as a nobody is certainly not of much importance either. But you're right, the facts actually speak for themselves. Even after his time as World Champion, Lasker still won the world-class tournament in New York in 1924, ahead of Capablanca and Alekhine, a tournament which Hübner also believes reflects the playing strengths of the top players of the time and thus proves Lasker to still be the strongest player in the world. If Lasker only wanted, he was still able to do it! It was probably the last great proof of his strength. I believe, Lasker is often overlooked because his playing style doesn't seem as attractive and striking as Capablanca's or Alekhine's.
I think Lasker played "psychologically" in the sense that he would consciously choose positions that he knew his opponent would struggle with, and particularly positions that were dynamic and involved trade-offs between multiple kinds of advantages. He played psychologically in much the same way that Carlsen does. Look at what Caruana said about his match with Magnus: Magnus evaluated Caruana as a player, came to certain conclusions about what kinds of positions Caruana was good and bad at, and steered his play accordingly; I think you could say exactly the same things about Lasker. But it's definitely not correct to say that he would play "psychologically" in the sense that he would make intentionally bad moves to bamboozle his opponents, as some have suggested.
@@dasgdasg There are problems with the terminology or categorization. What is called "psychological" here are chess technical observations. It is very interesting how Hübner analyzes and clarifies the issue (at least from his point of view, which I find very reasonable and plausible). It is really a pity that many of his works are probably not available in English, with few exceptions.
perhaps Rxa3 "crushes" Kb2, with Qxa2 as threat and Kxa3 Qc3 Ka4 a6!? with b5 as a threat (Qe6 Qb6 seems to prevent that) but I think the immediate b5 is stronger following Qc4 Ka5 Bd8 Qb6
Showalter is said to have defeated Pillsbury in an US Championship after Hastings 1895 in 1897. He might have been quite a terror. It is interesting that u mention Showalter in this vid. Did Lasker defeat him? Maybe u can feature Lasker-Showalter games or Showalter alone.
Hey Ben, there´s something you need to know about Preussia. Preussia was once a part of Germany and probably some of it still is. Now I´m from Denmark a neighbour-country to Germany, and when we bully the Germans, we always call them "These damned Sausage-preussians!" The Germans are good at making sausages but we always bully them with their damned sausages when they call us the stupid Danes. Preussia in Danish is called "Prøjsen" and I´ve noticed that you pronounce Preussia like Prussia while you should pronounce it more like Projssia in order to sound like a hardcore Viking from Denmark. Raaaawrrrr! We´ll teach them you and I Ben. By the way in my language the two-knights defence (the one with the Raaawrr-Traxler attack) is actually called the Preussian opening in my country instead of the German opening, which I like so we can even bully them over the chessboard. :)
Definitely dubious that the Wikipedia page for Emanuel claims that Berthold was top-ten in the world but Berhold's own page doesn't say a word about it.
9:53 Did this analysis include Paul Morphy's games, when he was giving odds. Mr. Morphy would showboat sometimes, arguably less so when odds had been offerred. This ought provide some important evidence in regards to the question whether Mr. Morphy was an all time world class talent, or just in his own lifetime.
When Lasker was born Prussia had been the most powerful of the numerous German States and unified them under its control. After WW1 Prussia was absorbed into the Weimer Republic which became the new German State. Prussia controlled West Pomerania where Lasker was born which is now Poland (and was also Poland before Prussia invaded it) so to cut a long story short, Lasker was always German, even when he was a Prussian in Poland.
Man the first game was terrible. White plays 1.f4 and black sets himself up to get attacked Botvinnik style with f4, f5 etc. Maybe because Botvinnik wasn't known/born yet?
Regarding the police. Don't deny anything. The thing to do is to say NOTHING. Only word you should say, if any is Lawyer. Then silence again. Act totally mute.
Fascinating logic, but it doesn't make any sense to me. A huge part of my family came from Prussia, from regions that were given to Poland after the war. So they all were Polish according to your reasoning, right? So then all those millions of people who were driven out from Prussia by the Poles and Russians and had to move westwards were Polish too? And Emmanuel Kant was Russian then? Or what?
The german question is answered pretty easily if you are a nazi archeologists, if there was anything beyond decent architecture there, it was Germany at one point, so thats that I guess
27 year reign used as testament to Lasker's greatness. Closest tough match he won was against an over- the- hill Tarrasch. Pillsbury, Rubinstein and Capablanca were each capable of beating Lasker for the title before 1914. For whatever reason, Lasker did not play a match with them.
The reason that the place Lasker was born is now part of Poland is that the allied powers forcefully relocated all the germans living in that area which used to be part of germany, And sent them eastward to what is now modern day germany, 1.5 million germans died during this transfer as many were just openly killed or Sent to concentration camps where they perished. It's a hushed up genocide that very few know about as it was committed by the victorious powers and they control what the sheep in their countries know about.
Ha! A topic I know. Talking to the cops. Ben your dad clearly wasn't a criminal. Denying everything is going to create animosity. The trick is to lead them in the wrong direction. Feign cooperation. That's my advice and I've probably beat more felonies then you
The “Great Players of the Past” series has taught me more than any other chess content on UA-cam. Go Ben, but stay here
@@realdizzle87 well not exactly a wall is literally impossible to defeat computers are still possible to defeat they don't play completely perfectly
@@eyeofhorus1301 If they play perfect chess like GOD mode perfect, White will win 100% of the games!
@@bobbyfischer7179 None of the engines evaluate starting position as winning just advantage white
@@eyeofhorus1301 Yea but after the first move is made by white & black WITH PERFECT Play, white always wins because it's got an extra temple
@@bobbyfischer7179 The extra tempo isn't enough to win perfect play will always draw, it just makes it more likely to win
Ben has massive funny uncle energy.
Explanation about Lasker‘s origin for those interested:
1. Prussia was a German Kingdom that developed out of the House Brandenburg following the 30 Years war (1618-1648) that encompassed today‘s east Germany and parts of Poland.
2. Back in 1868 Poland didn’t exist anymore and instead had been divided by Austria-Hungary, Prussia and Russia shortly after the Silesean Wars.
3. Following the Austro German War as well as the Franco German War in the 19th century (both fought with Otto von Bismarck as chancellor which most
US people should know as Bismarck North Dakota is named after him) the German Federation was abolished and in it‘s state The German Reich under the then Emperor of Prussia was
formed. While this included all minor states like Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Saxony etc., they all decided to be integrated under Prussian rule, as all these states were made of germanic People the name was changed from Prussia to German Reich.
4. After World War I Poland was restored and after World War 2 most of original Prussian territory was given to either Russia (e.g the old capital of Prussia Königsberg, now known as Kaliningrad) or to Poland.
5. Because of this Lasker was born in Prussia as back in the day it was still a Kingdom, then it became the German Reich making him German by default (but also still prussian if you want to be exact) and after his death that became polish territory, so while he was a german national his birthplace similar to my own grandfather for example and many more people is now on polish territory and soil.
Basically it would be the same as somebody born in Louisiana would be french (prussian) before the Louisiana purchase, which would make the territory US american (polish) nowadays, with an extra step in between.
or to make it short, Pomerania had been slowly colonized by ethnical "Germans" since the middle ages (although Germany and Germans didn't really exist back then), but after WW2 the territory was given to Poland, so Berlinchen is Polish and called Barlinek. not really overly confusing, loads of territories in Europe changed hands from 1000 to 2000 AD.
For anyone as bad at geography as Ben (Americans): Prussia was the largest German state which later was the driving force behind the formation of the German empire (see Bismarck, etc., mostly etc.). Part of Prussia was pretty far in the East in what is now Poland, Russia (if you can call it Russia), and Lithuania (see Ostpreußen). Germans were the ethnical majority there, especially in the cities, but that all changed in the 1940s-50s (see Hitler, WW2, etc.).
Are there people who don't call Kaliningrad Russia? What do they think it is?
@@kourii People usually call it kaliningrad. Yeah it's Russia but its not Russia Russia. Nobody calls Gibraltar the UK even though it is. Well, kinda sorta but not really technically but you get the point.
@@kourii Or to put it another way I don't think anybody has ever looked at Greenland and called it Denmark.
Most of Prussia is in Russia now. Some in Poland and some in Lithuania. Brandenburg is an Elector seat in the Holy Roman Empire, which Prussia wasn't apart of
@@12jswilson "Is an elector" Didn't realise the HRE is back again 🤣
This needs to be a Netflix comedy special. It's certainly funnier than most comedy specials out there.
i don't know any Netflix comedy specials but from what i know of comedy today i'm fine with just watching my favourite (and/or least favourite) GM lecturing on old chess players
Lasker's Manual of Chess was the first chess book I ever read. I read it many times and now I own it. I first read it in 1981 and I just bought it this year.
the emMANUEL of chess
Lasker is one of the older era players that I am convinced would be a top GM today if he was born about 20 years ago.
Wouldn't all of them be?
@@maddoxmb3170 Certainly the ones willing to work hard.
The ones that are still talked about would all be.
"Hey Lasker, play me."
"Nah."
"Aight."
Ladies and gentlemen, the 21 year long world champ.
It was common to decline challenges for the world title at that time because the champions always asked for a large amount of money to challenge them. Capablanca while he was champion refused challenges from Alekhine, Réti, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein.
@juccusell goldman/wiki: "lasker was world champion for 27 years."
1h later...
jccusell: "lasker was 21 years long world champion."
ladies and gentlemen, a fool writes a comment.
his historical elo was about 2878 and he was #1 ranked for about 25 years. last time between 1924-1927, when he was already 56 years old.
One thing I don't think Steinitz can be accused of is ducking strong opponents. He's the only world champion history who was given carte blanche by backers to pick his own challenger (1889), and he responded by picking the strongest challenger possible.
It eludes me why Lasker is not appreciated more. World champion for 27 years, dominated everyone when he burst on the scene in the late 19th century, then did not play that much as there were few competitors, and he was more interested in mathematics and philosophy. Then, when a new generation of masters emerged, led by Capablanca and Rubinstein, he upped his game and was competitive with them well into his 50s.
One of the most dominant and long lived champions in chess history, and at least in terms of historical achievement, he should make everybody’s top five
You are such a brilliant chessmaster, it's unbelievable that we never see you in any worthy tournaments either online or over the board.
Ben is the most gifted and natural comedian.....I absolutely love this guy
The area around Gdansk was prussia and they became a German state, after the war that region was given to Poland. But most people born during that period from that area consider themselves German.
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Most of them were resettled and driven out of their homes after the war.
He was not born close to Gdansk, more close to Berlin close after today's boarder to Poland.
Prussia was part of Germany. When Lasker was born, Germany was still not united. That came when he was three.
Much like Washington was born before the USA existed, but still Washington was American.
When Lasker died, the Nazis had disgracefully stripped Lasker from German citizenship, but no doubt he was German and Prussian.
Lasker was not born in the area around Gdansk. The area around Gdansk has always been ethnically Polish (while Gdansk was ethnically German since the 13th century).
7 or 8 years ago one of my friends wanted to play 1v1 basketball match and he was very sure he would beat me. I beated him 11 to 1 after which he said that he lost because of the rain (light rain was falling while we were playing). I told him well, rain was falling for me as well.
"The rooks are as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner." hahaha Ben has the best jokes.
OMG I love your videos! I didn't expect to see you here. I guess it makes sense: one analyzes tactics and strategies in the ring, the other on the chess board. Y'all aren't that different
A criticism of Einstein's theory of relativity by Lasker is included in the book "100 Authors against Einstein" published in 1931.
The only Chess book by Emmanuel Lasker we ever read and forgot about. Love . Red Pill. Matrix Crew. Trinity and Neo.
Emanuel was also the second cousin once removed of the great Idunno Al Lasker.
someone actually added "the end." at the end of ben's wikipedia page but it got removed for "improper humour". It's on the article's history page, tho
Someone really should change Ben's wikipedia page so that it actually says "Ben Finegold, the end." 😄
Or "Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is Ben Finegold and you're not."
Nice Ben. You're one of my favorite Chess teachers!
The “no talking” line gets me every time 😂 21:09
shoutout to rook a3!
Contract bridge dates from circa 1925.
My second-favourite draw of all time is probably Lasker-Lasker from New York 1924 with the black king unable to get around the rook in time to win.
That was an awesome game! Lasker should definitely have won, though.
@@fundhund62 Both had a win at different points.
Contract Bridge invented in 1925, so after Lasker lost his chess title. People did play a lot of Bridge in earlier days, just not Contract Bridge, so they didn't have to bid 7 to win a grand slam - they got the bonus for just taking all the tricks, even if the bid was only 1.
lmao, me and my homies love scoring 2220 from 1NT+6
He was the greatest player actually followed by Fisher and Kasparov.
Can't believe they didn't get those 'Falling Down' references. Talk about an endgame, that movie is great and should be required viewing. "You have a choice. I can kill you. Or you can kill me, and my daughter will get the insurance." It doesn't get more chess than that.
Great videos from the past.
Hahaha :)
The unification of Germany was complete in 1871. Before then, it was a number of German-speaking regions and countries, including Prussia.
Technically not true. In 1871 the Southern States entered the "Norddeutsche Bund" that was established in 1867 and the Bund changed his name to Deutsches Reich.
So Lasker was born when "Germany" was already established.
Benjamin likes Falling Down? I love that movie, oh my God!
Oh man, I just rewatched that last week! One of Schumacher's best, for sure (though perhaps that's not saying much)
26:55 I watched this lecture a few times now (huge Lasker & Finegold fan here) and this may well be my favourite Finegold moment... his acting is just so perfect, I can't stop lauging XD thanks Ben
PS 36:40 and "Falling Down" is one of my all-time favourite movies too... perfectest lecture ever
Prussia was part of eastern Germany prior to WW1, but became part of Poland afterwards. So yes, the Wikipedia article is true.
GM Robert Hübner considers Em. Lasker the best chess player of all time. In some also historically and philosophically thorough examinations Hübner studied games and some whole matches of Lasker in detail (unfortunately the publications are only in German, as far as I know, which might also be the reason why the English Wikipedia doesn't take these works into account) and proved that Lasker did not "play psychologically" (as was often claimed and still is), getting to the bottom of this myth. Hübner also wrote an interesting article on the general literature by and about Lasker.
Hübner did what Lasker himself was not too fond of doing (and in which Tarrasch also did much more substantial work than Lasker): thorough chess analyses (by humans).
I consider Lasker better than Capablanca. They competed in a lot of tournaments and Lasker won all of them. Capa rolled him in the world championship when Lasker was old, not used to the Cuban heat, and was ready to retire.
@@12jswilson It's hard to say, and my opinion as a nobody is certainly not of much importance either. But you're right, the facts actually speak for themselves. Even after his time as World Champion, Lasker still won the world-class tournament in New York in 1924, ahead of Capablanca and Alekhine, a tournament which Hübner also believes reflects the playing strengths of the top players of the time and thus proves Lasker to still be the strongest player in the world. If Lasker only wanted, he was still able to do it! It was probably the last great proof of his strength.
I believe, Lasker is often overlooked because his playing style doesn't seem as attractive and striking as Capablanca's or Alekhine's.
@@germanchris4440 Its not hard to say, you actually supported it, Lasker is definitely better
I think Lasker played "psychologically" in the sense that he would consciously choose positions that he knew his opponent would struggle with, and particularly positions that were dynamic and involved trade-offs between multiple kinds of advantages. He played psychologically in much the same way that Carlsen does. Look at what Caruana said about his match with Magnus: Magnus evaluated Caruana as a player, came to certain conclusions about what kinds of positions Caruana was good and bad at, and steered his play accordingly; I think you could say exactly the same things about Lasker.
But it's definitely not correct to say that he would play "psychologically" in the sense that he would make intentionally bad moves to bamboozle his opponents, as some have suggested.
@@dasgdasg There are problems with the terminology or categorization. What is called "psychological" here are chess technical observations.
It is very interesting how Hübner analyzes and clarifies the issue (at least from his point of view, which I find very reasonable and plausible). It is really a pity that many of his works are probably not available in English, with few exceptions.
Reti-Lasker, New York 1924 has historic significance. When faced with the surprise hypermodern strategy, Lasker manages to beat it over the board.
Was wondering when he'd finally show up.
Its too bad you don't have a chess club anymore. Would've like to come over and play a game.
perhaps Rxa3 "crushes" Kb2, with Qxa2 as threat and Kxa3 Qc3 Ka4 a6!? with b5 as a threat (Qe6 Qb6 seems to prevent that)
but I think the immediate b5 is stronger following Qc4 Ka5 Bd8 Qb6
Showalter is said to have defeated Pillsbury in an US Championship after Hastings 1895 in 1897. He might have been quite a terror. It is interesting that u mention Showalter in this vid. Did Lasker defeat him? Maybe u can feature Lasker-Showalter games or Showalter alone.
Thanks!
Np 👍
Hey Ben, there´s something you need to know about Preussia. Preussia was once a part of Germany and probably some of it still is. Now I´m from Denmark a neighbour-country to Germany, and when we bully the Germans, we always call them "These damned Sausage-preussians!" The Germans are good at making sausages but we always bully them with their damned sausages when they call us the stupid Danes. Preussia in Danish is called "Prøjsen" and I´ve noticed that you pronounce Preussia like Prussia while you should pronounce it more like Projssia in order to sound like a hardcore Viking from Denmark. Raaaawrrrr! We´ll teach them you and I Ben.
By the way in my language the two-knights defence (the one with the Raaawrr-Traxler attack) is actually called the Preussian opening in my country instead of the German opening, which I like so we can even bully them over the chessboard. :)
Wait, an Atlanta chess center video posted today? I thought that place shut down
REUPLOAD FOR CHANNEL CONSOLIDATION: Originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on July 20th, 2021. Yes. You've probably seen this before.
@@lukasstankunas5183 Ah thank you, I wasn't sure until Ben brought up "Falling Down" and I remembered that I still haven't watched it.
We're the same, you and me.
We"re the same, dont you see?
Definitely dubious that the Wikipedia page for Emanuel claims that Berthold was top-ten in the world but Berhold's own page doesn't say a word about it.
This video has an excellent preamble-to-beard ratio.
9:53 Did this analysis include Paul Morphy's games, when he was giving odds. Mr. Morphy would showboat sometimes, arguably less so when odds had been offerred. This ought provide some important evidence in regards to the question whether Mr. Morphy was an all time world class talent, or just in his own lifetime.
When Lasker was born Prussia had been the most powerful of the numerous German States and unified them under its control. After WW1 Prussia was absorbed into the Weimer Republic which became the new German State. Prussia controlled West Pomerania where Lasker was born which is now Poland (and was also Poland before Prussia invaded it) so to cut a long story short, Lasker was always German, even when he was a Prussian in Poland.
I once met the grandson of lasker's neighbour.
Damn, I learned nothing from this whole video except Deny Everything.
I'm not sure if or why Qc5 after Rhd1 is bad
don't forget the great Hannibal Lasker the chess canibal
I'm 99% sure this is a re-upload. Also, you usually start off with the sponsor of the video!
41:42 except for one thing my fav joke
Hello Finegold, Prussia was a german state. Language and history could have something to do with this denomination.
Prussia was German speaking and culturally German in these days. So he was basically German
Games start at 17:30. You are welcome.
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now thats kool"
Isn't this an old video That is now shifted to this channel?
Go ben
But stay there!
4:20 Prussia was part of Germany until WW2, after which it was ceded to Poland.
I thought Hans Niemann had zero blunders per 1000 moves! That makes him the greatest doesn't it?
Which I say almost twice a day
Man the first game was terrible. White plays 1.f4 and black sets himself up to get attacked Botvinnik style with f4, f5 etc. Maybe because Botvinnik wasn't known/born yet?
Lasker vs Pawn.
Well Prussia was the largest German country at the time, other than Austria-Hungary.
Prussia I thought was an old name for Germany.
carl schlechter is a very strange person
buy a gooder mic
Capablanca, then Fischer was fact in that study
Stupid and unnecessary comments on Lasker's ethnicity, but overall great lecture as usual.
10:45 uh oh hope Kramnik never hears that, he will say it's proof that EVERY chess player before 2000 was cheating XD XD XD
Good
Regarding the police. Don't deny anything. The thing to do is to say NOTHING. Only word you should say, if any is Lawyer. Then silence again. Act totally mute.
Emanuel Lasker was very suspicious
+eLem3nT yea he was clearly using a time machine to use Stockfish against players in the past
Fascinating logic, but it doesn't make any sense to me. A huge part of my family came from Prussia, from regions that were given to Poland after the war. So they all were Polish according to your reasoning, right? So then all those millions of people who were driven out from Prussia by the Poles and Russians and had to move westwards were Polish too? And Emmanuel Kant was Russian then? Or what?
Stokfish examined this game! ua-cam.com/video/M7VzQKPBGgw/v-deo.html
Yea if ur not 4th ur last ;)
The german question is answered pretty easily if you are a nazi archeologists, if there was anything beyond decent architecture there, it was Germany at one point, so thats that I guess
Hmm... you are my favorite and least favorite grandmaster
Before 1914 there was Pillsbury, Rubinstein and Capablanca. You can put a giant asterisk on that 27 year reign.
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
27 year reign used as testament to Lasker's greatness. Closest tough match he won was against an over- the- hill Tarrasch. Pillsbury, Rubinstein and Capablanca were each capable of beating Lasker for the title before 1914. For whatever reason, Lasker did not play a match with them.
Nope. Lasker had positive records against all of them.
Overall positive record means zilch in world championship match. Ask Alekhine and Fischer.
@@bigcolt5256 I still don't see strong evidence why there should be an asterisk.
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The reason that the place Lasker was born is now part of Poland is that the allied powers forcefully relocated all the germans living in that area which used to be part of germany, And sent them eastward to what is now modern day germany, 1.5 million germans died during this transfer as many were just openly killed or Sent to concentration camps where they perished. It's a hushed up genocide that very few know about as it was committed by the victorious powers and they control what the sheep in their countries know about.
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Ha! A topic I know. Talking to the cops. Ben your dad clearly wasn't a criminal. Denying everything is going to create animosity. The trick is to lead them in the wrong direction. Feign cooperation. That's my advice and I've probably beat more felonies then you