Dr. Eduard Lasker is one of the few chess players
of the first rank who have shown conspicuous ability in other intel. lectual fields. He is therefore exceptionally qualified for success in his attempt " to apply to chess the only method of teaching which has proved productive in all branches of science and art, that is, the education of individual thought." In his Chess Strategy, now translated by Julius Du Mont from its drastically revised second edition (G. Bell and Sons, 5s. net), Dr. Lasker aims at appealing less to the memory of his readers than to their common-sense and intelligence. Dr. Lather first lays down the principles of victory in chess. as exemplified respectively in openings, endings, and the middle game, and then gives a series of forty-eightillustrative games from actual master-play, with full annotations. There are few players of this so-called game who cannot improve themselves with the assistance of Dr. Lasker's subtle analysis.
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