Batgirl is a real jewel for these forums.All her threads are very interesting.
Indeed she is. The only thing of interest in this thread, however, is her motivation in posting it in the first place. Posting unsourced campfire tales from trashy authors is not quite up to her standards. I suppose she is simply bored.
Dr Isaak Maxovich Linder - Исаака Максовича Линдера - died last fall, on Oct. 31, 2015. He was a well known, highly respected Russian chess historian. He was born in Austria on Nov. 20, 1920 but his parents moved to Moscow when he was only 5. He was on the history faculty of the Moscow State University. He had studied chess at the Young Pioneers Stadium together with Vassily Smyslov and Yury Averbakh. He once participated in a simul given by Em. Lasker himself. Linder joined in the Soviet military and fought against the German invasion, receiving a medal. He was a chess radio announcer and chess columinst for various Russian magazines. He published more that 500 titles and 50 books on chess.
Among his books are:
"A.D. Petrov, the first Russian chess master", 1952
"Artist of Chess I S Shumov", 1959
"Chess in Old Russia", 1964 - in English,1979
"First Russian Chess Masters", 1979
"SCHACH - Schachfiguren im Wandel der Zei", 1994
"SCHACH - Das Lexikon", 1996
"Korolyi Shakhmatnogo Mira", 2001
"José Raúl Capablanca: Third World Chess Champion", 2009
"Emanuel Lasker: Second World Chess Champion", 2010
"Wilhelm Steinitz: First World Chess Champion", 2014
"Alexander Alekhine: Fourth World Chess Champion", posthumously 2016
In his review of this particular book, IM Jeremy Silman wrote: "EMANUEL LASKER: 2ND WORLD CHESS CHAMPION by the famous father and son team of Isaak and Vladimir Linder is a substantial work on the man who occupied Caissa’s throne for 27 years."
You had to ask for it...
I want to get one of these chess sets and play a game with Tatev Abrahamyan or Alissa Melekhina ... I might be able to draw out the game into an ending where I have a chance for a nice mate!
Report from a chess tournament:'on board 1 Spielmann played Rubinstein. Rubinstein was down an exchange but I couldn't help but noticing Spielmann displaying a rather glassy stare. It appeared to me that the glassy stare was sufficiently compensating for the exchange.'
anecdotes are seldom funny...