Lasker-Capablanca: World Championship Match 1921

In 1921, the long-reigning champion Dr. Emanuel Lasker finally accepted the conditions to play a match for the World Chess Championship against the young, Cuban Phenom José Raúl Capablanca. The match took place in Havana and became a rather one-sided affair, with Capablanca with four games before Lasker forfeited the match after just 14 games.

The present book revisits the material and analysis put forward by Capablanca in a 1921 book on the match and includes:

– The analysis by Capablanca has been re-examined, computer-checked, and expanded. 

– Additional game references from contemporary games, with an emphasis on games and variations played by Lasker and Capablanca. 

– In the second part of the book, all other games between Lasker and Capablanca have been included. drawing on the analysis and annotations from the original tournament books. 

– Analysis included by Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch, Bohatyrchuk, Sozin, and others. 

– Tournament tables from all tournaments where both Lasker and Capablanca took part, both before and after the 1921 match. 

– Unique material including pictures from some of their encounters and a recounting of a conversation between Capablanca and Rokhlin ahead of Capablanca's game vs Lasker in Moscow, 1936.

FIDE Master Carsten Hansen has carefully re-examined all games and analyses for this expanded and updated edition that should thrill both fans of Capablanca, Lasker, and chess history.