Chess Tactics: Edward Lasker - G. Thomas (London, 1912)

Video Title :	Chess Tactics: Edward Lasker - G. Thomas (London, 1912)
Description :	Interesting chess game presented by Serguei Vorojtsov. Subscribe to my channel newsletter at http://vorojtsov.com/mail-list-sv/?p=subscribe High resolution videos are available here: http://vorojtsov.com/shop/ -------------------------------------------- Edward Lasker (Kempen, December 3, 1885 -- New York, March 25, 1981) was a leading American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author. Edward Lasker published several books on American checkers, chess, and Go. He won five U.S. Open Chess Championships (1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921). His best result was his narrow 8.5--9.5 loss in a match with Frank Marshall for the U.S. Championship in 1923. For that, Lasker was invited to participate in the legendary New York chess tournament in 1924, facing world-class masters like Alekhine, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Emanuel Lasker (a distant cousin), and Réti. -------------------------------------------- His most famous game is probably the queen sacrifice and king hunt against Sir George Thomas. Thomas said, "That was very nice", and Lasker was touched by his sportsmanship when it was translated into German (he had yet to learn English). But in his account, he gave a position missing the white pawn on d4, so Lasker contrasted Thomas's reaction with a typical reaction that other opponents would have given, "You were lucky ..." -------------------------------------------- He was friends with former World chess champion Emanuel Lasker. Some controversy exists as to whether they were related. Edward Lasker wrote in his memoirs of the New York 1924 tournament as published in the March 1974 edition of Chess Life magazine: "I did not discover that we were actually related until he (Emanuel Lasker) told me shortly before his death that someone had shown him a Lasker family tree on one of whose branches I was dangling."
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Comments :

Yes thay are! For all the players who aren't grandmasters but would like to win the game in this position. None of us would sacrifice the Queen because we aren't able to forsee next 7 or 8 moves like those players.

they are not alternatives because there is a forced mate as shown in the video.

Move knight on e4 to any position. Queen takes h7 pawn and that's checkmate.

nothing like a good queen sacrifice.Nice video

nice (;

but you can take the knight with the pawn and then none of the rubbish you wrote makes sense

I wrote in my last comment that those 2 variations are ONLY alternatives to g7xf6, but if you play little chess you should know that after white plays 0-0-0, black has inferior position which on that level of chess is enough to win, black King is open and white would win that game anyway

Perfect .... except: Bishop e4 instead of e2 is mate 3 moves earlier

It won't work if you put Bishop on e4, since black knight is on b7, which can take the white bishop.

Oops, I mean black bishop.