Lasker

Discover the most comprehensive collection of Emanuel Lasker's games, featuring an impressive 630 games that span his illustrious career as the 2nd World Chess Champion from 1896 to 1921. Each game is meticulously annotated, providing invaluable insights into Lasker's strategic and tactical prowess. Dive into the special "Play as Lasker" section, where you can test your skills with 203 quiz positions, challenging you to replicate Lasker's brilliant and powerful moves.

This course is part of the renowned Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), an innovative chess education platform. The series offers a wide range of courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for players from beginners to professionals. By engaging with this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, master new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply these skills in your own games.

The program serves as a personal coach, presenting tasks for you to solve and offering guidance when you're stuck. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates striking refutations of common mistakes. Additionally, the theoretical section explains game methods at different stages, using real-life examples. This interactive approach allows you to read lessons, make moves on the board, and practice unclear positions.

Key advantages of the program include:

• High-quality, double-checked examples
• Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
• Varied complexity levels in tasks
• Diverse goals to achieve within the problems
• Hints provided for errors
• Refutations for typical mistakes
• Option to play out any task position against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• Monitoring of ELO rating changes during the learning process
• Flexible settings for test mode
• Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
• Optimized for tablet screens
• No internet connection required
• Sync across devices with a free Chess King account

The course includes a free section where you can experience the full functionality of the program. This allows you to test the application in real-world conditions before unlocking additional topics, which cover Lasker's games from 1889 to 1940, as well as comprehensive sections on positional play, attacking the enemy king, tactical blows, defense, and endgame strategies.

What's New in Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jan 1, 2024

• Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition, combining erroneous exercises with new ones to present the most suitable set of puzzles.
• Ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
• Daily goal for puzzles to maintain your skills.
• Daily streak feature to track consecutive days of meeting the daily goal.
• Various fixes and improvements.