Talk:Edward Lasker

message: Was Edward Lasker related to Emanuel Lasker or not? Saying "He was distantly related to...but had no biological relationship with" doesn't make a lot of sense. Can someome provide a source that will show they were related? --Malathion 09:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: I know that I read in one of Edward Lasker's books (The Adventure of Chess?) that someone had showed him a family tree indicating that he and Emanuel Lasker were distantly related. Krakatoa 
From Edward Lasker's memoirs of the great 1924 New York tournament, published in the March 1974 Chess Life: "I did not discover that we were actually related until he (Emanuel Lasker) told me shortly before his death that someone had shown him a Lasker family tree on one of whose branches I was dangling."  Somehow this report has gone unnoticed in a number of Lasker biographies.  I've (lightly) edited the Edward Lasker page.
Bill-on-the-Hill 13:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edward Lasker 

message: To the given list should be added "Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor", a weighty tome I read in the Seventies and was surprised to learn was a recent offering by the five-decades-previously author of Chess Strategy. I don't know the ISBN number though. Captain Pedant (talk) 15:27, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: I would like to know where the story about breast pumps came from, since the USPTO lists O.H. Needham as having received patent No. 11135 for a breast pump in 1854, 31 years before Lasker was born.  Here is the direct USPTO.gov link to US Patent #11135. (You need Quicktime image plugin or Alternatiff plugin): http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00011135&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPALL%2526s1%3D0011135.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0011135%2526RS%3DPN%2F0011135&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.36.114.30 (talk) 15:24, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the cite: Lasker's Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters, pp. 250-51. Here is a summary: Lasker was approached by Dr. I.A. Abt of Chicago, a pediatrician, who asked Lasker, an engineer, to design a machine he wanted for his Babies' Hospital to get mother's milk for premature babies who were too weak to nurse. "The ordinary hand-operated breast pumps or manual expression were unsatisfactory because they did not remove all the milk from the breast." Lasker took 18 months to design it, then another year to produce a practical machine that could be manufactured for a reasonable price. After the machine had been in use for two weeks at Dr. Abt's hospital, Lasker received a phone call from obstetrician Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who thought his machine had a much wider field of application than Lasker had imagined. After working with it for a month, Dr. DeLee said he considered it indispensable in any hospital in which maternity work was done, and urged Lasker to put it on the market. He did, and made five times as much money as he had earned in his previous job. He derived a great deal of satisfaction from this work, though he had to endure the teasing of his friends who now called him "the chest player". Krakatoa (talk) 05:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

text: See also the first paragraph of breast pump and the citations given there, and Patent No. 1,644,257 issued by U.S. Patent Office for Lasker's breast pump.  I am no engineer, and have only a layman's understanding of breast-sucking, but Lasker's breast pump looks a lot more sophisticated than Needham's. I have revised the text in both articles, however, to reflect that other breast pumps were in existence prior to Lasker's. Evidently Needham's contraption sucked compared to Lasker's design, which really sucked. Krakatoa (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breast Pumps 

message: Game which is showed is one of classical and all-times best games. However, other bizarre case (when Lasker lose in attractive way) may be noted:
Edward Lasker vs Israel Albert Horowitz
New York (USA) 1946  ·  Queen Pawn Game: Colle System (D04)  ·  0-1
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 c5 4. c4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Nc3 d4 8. exd4 exd4 9. Nb5 Bb4+ 10. Bd2 O-O 11. Bxb4 Nxb4 12. Nbxd4 Qa5 13. Nd2 Qe5+ 14. Ne2 Nd3#
CoyoteEWile (talk) 12:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposition for notable games 

message: This still-living person bears some resemblance to him. Important to resolve soon, I think.--Jrm2007 (talk) 22:49, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related [[Anita Lasker-Wallfisch]]? 

message: It is probable that this is Sir William Haldane Porter who was, after 1920, HM Chief Inspector of the Immigration Service. User: Agent1135  —Preceding undated comment added 06:39, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haldane Porter 

message: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1258185
Apparently he won?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.193.200.76 (talk) 19:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That victory was by the former world champion, Emanuel Lasker, then a mere lad of 66 years old.  This article is about his namesake Ed Lasker. Quale (talk) 00:43, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update the part that says "Although Lasker never won against Capablanca" 

message: See also http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Chess.html?id=D2K0M_sp3UwC Chess, the complete self-tutor, which I remember seeing in the mid-1970s, a good half-century since Chess Strategy. On a quick search I can't find the ISBN but I'm sure someone can. Captain Pedant (talk) 19:27, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books 

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