Lasker Emanuel. My Match with Capablanca

Victor Ciobanu, September 11th 2020. — 54 p. — ASIN: B08HWVWKF9.This book is very small, but I do not want to skip the generally accepted foreword. The reader will find facts, notes, and suggestions in it. Maybe the book will stimulate interest in chess. From the suggestions made here, I expect that the coming years of chess life will prove their necessity.
E. Lasker, Berlin, February 1922.An excerpt as translated by Dr. Maxwell Bukhofzer:"Capablanca favors neither complication nor adventure. He desires to know where he steps. His is a depth of a mathematician, not of a poet. His mind is Roman, not Greek. The combinations of an Anderssen or Tschigorin were possible only at definite moments and extremely individual. Those of Capablanca do not depend on time. ln almost every case he can, with impunity, delay them. He hardly needs to modify them. since they are the product of a general principle. Anderssen and Tschigorin were guided by incidental occurrences; Capablanca conforms to the permanent characteristics of the positive. He puts stock only in stability, such as the solidity of his position, the pressure upon a weak spot, and he distrusts the accidental, a problem mate, for instance.".The championship chess match, to which the whole chess world has been looking for with the keenest possible interest, the contest for world's chess supremacy, is a thing of the past, and today Jose Raul Capablanca is the new champion, having wrestled the coveted title from Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who occupied the chess throne for over twenty-seven years. It is not necessary to dwell here on the details of the contest, which are given in full below. Suffice it to say that the young champion may be proud of his achievement, because he went through the fight without losing a single game, while placing four wins to his credit from a Lasker, who never before in any of his matches or tournaments had four points on the debt side of his score. The fact alone speaks volumes to the credit of the new champion. While a great many of Capablanca's friends were sure that he would be victorious, an equal number of chess devotees, if not a majority, were equally certain that Lasker would add another victory to his score. The people thought that his long experience and his remarkable record to date would be too much for the young adversary who, although having splendid victories to his credit, was not looked upon as a dead certainity, and only a few of his most ardent admirers were sure that the verdict would be in his favor.