BRAND NEW CHESS BOOK There is a brand new book out on former world champion Emanuel Lasker with the simple title Emanuel Lasker, edited by Forster, Hansen, and Negele (2009).  This book is clearly a labor of love and with over 1,000 pages, 700 games, and 1600 diagrams it is a chess player’s book. Other areas of interest covered are his childhood and family, and along with work as both a mathematician and as a philosopher. I don’t have this book and I want one for Christmas or my birthday (early January).  Many more details on the book and a number of photos from within may be found at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5946. PROBLEM CHESS BOOK I have a confession to make, I hate ‘problem books’ … composed problems that is. Why? Because they almost never have any bearing on the problems or positions I am likely to ever face on the chess board. That has changed as a result of Canadian GM Kevin Spraggett’s posting of a number of problems by the brother Platov from their famous book appropriately titled The Platov … Continue reading →