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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Lasker
I can't comment on the review of the Kindle edition that criticized the formatting. I can tell you that most everything ever written by Emanuel Lasker, the second world chess champion, is still considered topical and instructive. I have the hard copy (i.e., traditional book) version.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this Kindle version of a great tournament book
I just returned this Kindle book to Amazon. It is badly misformatted in places. You see the discussion of a position starting with, say, move 15. Unfortunately, there is no diagram of the position at this point, no name of the game or who it is played between, no list of moves that have been made -- just a discussion of the moves! I found this in two places and had to...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Lasker, March 31, 2010
I can't comment on the review of the Kindle edition that criticized the formatting. I can tell you that most everything ever written by Emanuel Lasker, the second world chess champion, is still considered topical and instructive. I have the hard copy (i.e., traditional book) version.

St. Petersburg 1909 was where Akiba Rubinstein was recognized by most as being the legitimate challenger to Lasker. He defeated Lasker in their individual encounter in this tournament (a very famous game in its own right). Lasker does not burden the reader with extremely deep notes; his style had always been when annotating a game to give clear guidance to the reader about the ebb and flow of the game. For players of less than master strength, his notes will be exactly what is needed.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this Kindle version of a great tournament book, October 21, 2009
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I just returned this Kindle book to Amazon. It is badly misformatted in places. You see the discussion of a position starting with, say, move 15. Unfortunately, there is no diagram of the position at this point, no name of the game or who it is played between, no list of moves that have been made -- just a discussion of the moves! I found this in two places and had to return the book.

I eventually noticed that the games discussed were way further forward in the file. That is no excuse, and at least in the poorly formatted areas, the book is unreadable.

I own a copy of this book, just wanted to have it on my Kindle. Not this version! I hope this is corrected.

The diagrams that existed were fine, and I was otherwise pleased enough with the book. Most players would need a chessboard to follow the annotations -- they couldn't just read the book and follow the games -- there weren't enough diagrams to do that. I just opened SCID (Linux equivalent to Chessbase) on my computer and followed along. Till I got to the totally messed-up stuff.
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4.0 out of 5 stars St. Petersburg 1909, August 1, 2010
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O que atrai neste livro, que não precisaria de nada além para atrair tendo em vista o autor, foi uma opinião de Alekhine: "Emmanuel Lasker tem sido meu mestre toda minha vida. Se não fosse por ele eu não seria o que sou. Seu livro sobre o torneio de San Petersburgo 1909 foi para mim uma espécie de catecismo ao longo de todos esses anos. Tenho estudado uma e outra vez cada uma das idéias que Lasker comenta neste livro, e durante anos o tenho comigo dia e noite. A idéia de xadrez como arte seria inimaginável sem Emmanuel Lasker" É certo que essa opinião de Alekhine foi por ele mesmo contestada, quando anos depois escreveu uma série de artigos para Pariser Zeitung. Mas o contexto em que isso se deu foge um pouco do presente assunto. A respeito do livro e do autor há muitas implicações que até hoje convergem na história do xadrez. Para quem tem interese em conhecer o status quo do xadrez contemporaneo, uma das vertentes obrigatórias passa por Tarrasch, Steinitz, Lasker. Neste livro será possível principalmente aprender xadrez e inevitavelmente, por tabela, aprender história do xadrez. Para mim, como estudioso do xadrez, tem sido um trabalho mais lento, mas nem por isso menos gratificante em termos de conhecimento, o fato de estar traduzindo do ingles para o portugues, para entender as idéias de Lasker, que se não foi o maior, foi certamente um dos maiores campeões da história do xadrez.
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