Sounds good IF I didn't already have dozens (sigh) of unread chess books I'd buy this one.
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Lasker's Manual 21st Century Edition
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I also have the same problem. Where do I start? Unable to focus or set a direction.
Perhaps it would help to consider books that can be read more quickly:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
This is an update of Emmanuel Lasker's classic chess manual which hadn't been revised since the 1930's so what's different? they changed the cover of the book the art work is really beautiful a new cover could have been done differently inside the origional book there's a photo of Lasker seated at a chess board they could have blown up the photo and used that to give the book a personal touch or perhaps used another nice photo like the bearded Lasker on page 146.
With a book like this great care has to be taken not to butcher it once a revision author snips out this and snips out that( try whole chapters anyone??) in the end it's not the same book anymore and it becomes unrecognizable which fortunately Taylor Kingston took great pains to avoid.
All the analysis was throughly checked by computers they said they didn't find many mistakes something like 60 of them that's because there was a revision done by W.H Watts many corrections and alterations were added to the book approved by Lasker.
Better diagrams are included in the book than the Dover Edition and they added Lasker Lore and more photo's in the book of course they updated the book to figurine notation which is standard now.
I recommend the book if you really want to understand Lasker I also recommend the book by Dr.J.Hannak about his life............
http://www.amazon.com/Emanuel-Lasker-Chess-Master-Dover/dp/0486267067/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363751683&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=emmanuel+lasker+j+hanake