POSITION AFTER 26 MOVES
GM MAZE
GM TKACHIEV
Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Lasker and Steinitz taught that combinations can only exist if based on some sort of positional advantage(s). Well, here White has a lot going for him:
- Better Bishop
- Protected passed Pawn
- Better co-ordinated pieces
- Safer King position
HOW DOES WHITE CONVERT THIS? WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!
''Believe in the existence of that combination and seek to discover it. And if you have searched in vain a hundred times, continue. Possibly the advantage that you think you hold is only an illusion; your valuations may be at fault: prove them and improve them. But, first of all, search diligently; work, for such work is rewarded.'' (Manual, p 215)
''I want to train pupils to think for themselves and exercise just criticism. I will not teach them mere formulae, mere generalities, but will instil into them lasting principles that will grow and blossom; which are alive and vital. They must be ready and willing to put their conceptions , laws and valuations to the proof, again and again, diligently and cheerfully, from a sheer joy of the law and from veneration of the fact.'' (Manual, p 237)
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
