Chess Secrets. What I Learned from the Masters

The author of the book is a famous American grandmaster, one of the best chess lists of the first half of the XX century. The participant of the famous Super Turner in New York in 1924, where he became famous as a co-author of the unique endgame Rye and the pawn against the horse in the party with his namesake and the world champion Emanuel Lasker. One of this fight and the beautiful victory over George Thomas would have already enough to get into the Hall of Fame of Chess Art. The man is extraordinary, who lived a long and rich life, Edward Lasker generously shares the memories of his creative path and about the great contemporaries - Pilsbury, Lasker, Alekhin, Capabalanka, Yanovsky, Marshall, Ravievsky and many others with whom he was friendly and met more than once board. This book is not only a farewell salute of the past epoch, but also a brilliant textbook of a chess strategy and tactics: on examples from their own, and not only, the author of the party frankly talks about what and how he studied from the famous maesta of his time!