Lasker's Voice

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    At Edward Winter's semi-defunct Chess History website there is a recording of Lasker's voice in C.N. 11905.

    https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html
    "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
    "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
    "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

  • #2
    A bonus! Near the end of the recording Lasker mentions Euwe. Over the years I've read some online discussions about the proper pronunciation of Euwe's name: ewe (like the sheep), you've, you-vuh, erv, oiwuh, oive, etc. Now we have the definitive answer from someone who knew Euwe: ER-vuh.
    "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
    "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
    "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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    • #3
      There was a man who used to attend and watch, though not play, the Toronto tournaments back in the 1990s and it WAS Lasker. This was too close a resemblance to be a doppelganger, it had to be the resurrection of the man himself. :) Deen Hergott once told me that he actually went up to this man and said "Hello Mr. Lasker" and the man simply smiled. Does anyone remember this person?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Brad Thomson View Post
        ..... Does anyone remember this person?
        My wife might. I'll Lasker. : l
        "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
        "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
        "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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        • #5
          Yes I saw him at many tournaments in Toronto but I never saw him play, he only watched. They say we have 5 twins so this could be one of Lasker's.

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          • #6
            When I was studying Architecture I slummed for a brief while studying the programs of Bauhaus. Walter Gropius is an interesting figure. Art into Industry, had a fascination to me. I came up through the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture any tangential writings about Bauhaus I also vigorously studied.

            Whilst looking into Bauhaus I discovered Johannes Itten and using typography as a textural visual element apart from typography. One of his students was Else Lasker-Schüler ... was the wife of Jonathan Berthold Lasker, Emanuel Lasker's older bother.

            This thread all that came flooding back, ha!

            Else Lasker-Schüler

            Lasker's voice.

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