Lasker

Emmanuel Lasker, one of the greatest chess players in history, once said, "The hardest game to win is a won game." How to Turn an Advantage into Victory is for the player who wins in the middlegame but doesn't know the right moves to pull off a victory. Learn how to overcome the most common – and most challenging – situation in every chess game.

Chess, history, etymology, scientific research

19.692 edited games played between February and April 2010 • biggest tournament: European Women Championship (1. Cramling): 863 games • Amber tournaments in Nizza (1. Ivanchuk and Carlsen) • Championships of: Bulgaria, Danmark, Germany, Vietnam, and more • more games of players rated over 2700: French league • CBM Extra with videos in chess media format: Leonid Kritz shows a classical gamee Lasker-Capablanca • Valeri Lilov has recorded two videos: Spassky-Tal, Tallinn 1973, and Kramnik-Deep Junior played in 2000.

The seminal work of the Cuban genius who repeated the exploits of Morphy, suddenly bursting onto the European scene and annihilating the great masters who had hitherto dominated the international arena. This book captures the magic of Capablanca's early victory at San Sebastian 1911 and his second place - bowing only to Lasker - at St Petersburg 1914. All in all, 35 games are annotated by Capablanca in person with remarkable objectivity - bestowing praise and hurling criticism as and when required.