Linder: Emanuel Lasker - Second World Chess Champion improvers and the endgame phase in

and the endgame phase in particular yields positions of remarkable elegance and beauty

In chapter 11

Kalinin provides candidate masters with a wealth of study and training material

Book of the Year Award —Chess Journalists of America

All games were nominated and annotated by the players themselves

Linder: Emanuel Lasker - Second World Chess Champion improvers and the endgame phase inWorld Chess Champion Series Emanuel Lasker was a great chess fighter, thinker and researcher. He possessed of gigantic playing strength, retaining the title of World's Number One Chess Player for 27(!) years. Even after losing his crown, he kept his ability for a long time, as shown by his victories and prize winning finishes in immensely powerful international tournaments when he was 54 (Moravska Ostrava 1923), 55 (New York 1924), 56 ( Moscow 1925),