Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2006, pp 132
This tiny book is about struggle, a subject not readily discussed in the present-day European political correctness milieu. The author is one of the first great chess masters who know very well that the higher is a chess-player’s skill, the less freedom he has. The striving for precision sometimes turns into its opposite here, as Lasker is inventing concepts that do not make it easy to follow his tumultuous thinking. Nevertheless, his comments on strategy and tactics, on principles of saving forces, on the logic of struggle for survival and the principle of justice are certainly interesting. Logics have been excluded from the school curriculum, and an acquaintance with Lasker’s book yet again suggests that this is probably a serious omission.
