Can we stop with all the Lasker nonsense?

Capablanca: "I tell you, Lasker was a great man"

Contributions by Lasker:
The Berlin Defence to the Ruy Lopez, later adopted by Kramnik,
The Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation, later adopted by Fischer,
Incredible endgame technique in RB vs. RN endgames from both sides, dubbed the Lasker endgame

Greatest accomplishment:
Winning the New York 1924 tournament at age 56 before Capablanca end Alekhine.

@Savage47
First, you cited the wrong poster.
Second, your rebuttal is restating what I said.
third, Kasparov said Anand was a coffee house player (and worse about many other players, and even worse about programmers). Fischer didn't like Alekhine's style, so he criticized him as a player. It doesn't matter what the warped players say, just looking at most of Morphy's games will show that he often broke even the basic positional elements proposed by Steinitz.

Nobody is buying into your unfounded hatred of a great player. My suggestion is for you to FSU and for this site to close this thread.

One thing not mentioned enough here [tpr], is Lasker's outstanding tournament play through out his career. He defeated all the leading players of the day [#1] {In their prime}... in a great number of grandmaster tournaments which he won. Pillsbury had his famous wins against Lasker, but Lasker also beat him in other tournaments such as Nuremberg 1896. Obviously they could trade games. Pillsbury was a great player...but he never became world champ and hold it for 27 years. Part of Lasker's success was his ability to play both the man and the board. For those that have a great interest in Lasker, I recommend a book called "Emanuel Lasker - The life of Chess Master" by Dr. J. Hannak It is a biography and even has a forward written by Albert Einstein. It has a number of annotated games of Lasker. It is a very good read. #15... Edward Lasker...A International Master himself...He has very good book called "Chess Strategy" :]

@Savage47

You need to look a little further for Kramnik’s view on Lasker, like this great interview. www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/vladimir-kramnik-from-steinitz-to-kasparov

“Lasker is a grand figure, he understood many global things in chess. I've recently looked through his games again and was amazed: for his time, Lasker knew so incredibly much! He was the first to understand the importance of psychological aspects of the struggle and used them to his own advantage, also he was the first to vary his strategy and even his style depending on the partner. On the other hand, Steinitz used only one conception: he thought that some things were always right and others always wrong.”

@MiniHuman thanks for posting that. Really good read. Shame there wasn't more about Kasparov.

@dRr0x0rZZ I think it’s hard to be objective about one of your great opponents. Maybe he’ll write some books now that he’s retired.

I love Lasker's book for beginners/intermediate. 1930s but precociously interactive: you solve a simple puzzle, then are directed to another page somewhere where you get a more difficult variation on the same theme. And so on, from simple to increasingly complex. Wonderfully clear analyses and amusing anecdotes. Steal it if you can. (He's deceased, it's ok).

"Lasker's play was like lipid water with a dash of poison" -paraphrased and I forgot the source

So was Bobby Fischer being slightly insulting, when he called Lasker a 'coffeehouse player' ? Or was he just stating that he played a style that was bold and risky and not too positional sharp? I'm asking, I don't know.

And so who WAS the best coffeehouse player of all time? (per the above definition) Morphy? Tal? Lasker?

Lasker was a coffeehouse player: he earned his living and his studies in Berlin by playing for money in coffeehouses.
Lasker also invented the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence, then called Lasker-Pelikan Variation.
He also found the Lasker Trap in the Albin's Countergambit: 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e5 3 dxe5 d4 4 e3 Bb4+ 5 Bd2 dxe3 6 Bxb4 exf2+ 7 Ke2 fxg1N+