Lasker-Capablanca - World Championship 1921

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In 1921, the long-reigning champion Dr. Emanuel Lasker finally accepted the conditions to play a match for the World Chess Championship against the young, Cuban Phenom José Raúl Capablanca.

The match took place in Havana and became a rather one-sided affair, with Capablanca with four games before Lasker forfeited the match after just 14 games.

The present book revisits the material and analysis put forward by Capablanca in a 1921 book on the match and includes:

• The analysis by Capablanca has been re-examined, computer-checked, and expanded.

• Additional game references from contemporary games, with an emphasis on games and variations played by Lasker and Capablanca.

• In the second part of the book, all other games between Lasker and Capablanca have been included. drawing on the analysis and annotations from the original tournament books.

• Analysis included by Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch, Bohatyrchuk, Sozin, and others.

• Tournament tables from all tournaments where both Lasker and Capablanca took part, both before and after the 1921 match.

• Unique material including pictures from some of their encounters and a recounting of a conversation between Capablanca and Rokhlin ahead of Capablanca's game vs Lasker in Moscow, 1936.

FIDE Master Carsten Hansen has carefully re-examined all games and analyses for this expanded and updated edition that should thrill both fans of Capablanca, Lasker, and chess history.

Produktet er en del av serien Alexander Game Books Classics (AGBC)