<The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel.>

-- Em. Lasker

(Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood, p.26)

"Teaching the art of playing chess should consist in developing the ability of independent thinking."

http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/s...

<Shopping in Hamilton.> <The last photograph taken of Dr Lasker was this snapshot of him standing outside a market in Hamilton, NY, where he attended the State meeting, 17-24 August 1940. To the lapel of his coat is attached a committeeman’s badge, and in his left hand the veteran carries the inevitable bag of fruit. His vis-à-vis, Harold M. Phillips, wears an expression which shows him to be sensitively attuned to the quizzical good humor of his famous friend.’>

Photo:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

My thoughts on modern chess and Lasker:

Lasker was the real founder of modern chess. If one were to study a typical good Lasker game after it has left opening theory, there would be no way of recognizing that it was played a century ago. He was like an anachronism of his era, a World Champion who played chess (commencing outside of opening theory) the same way that present-day super GMs play chess, in an era where other players were still trying to comprehend the rules of the game. Lasker was consistently playing the middlegame and endgame even better than all of today's super GMs except the very best, who are his equals. On hindsight, it is not really surprising that he reigned and dominated for so long; he was playing chess with a comprehension and at a level that no one else had reached. Lasker had the natural ability (without being taught) to recognize and convert one type of dynamic advantage to another, at a time when Steinitz, Tarrasch, and later Nimzovitch were still trying to formulate the rules for recognizing and playing out static advantages.

Unfortunately there were not enough subscribers to make the "Chess Player's Scrap Book" a viable proposition, and the magazine ceased publication after the July 1907 issue.

Jeremy Silman used the opportunity of discussing a book on Petrosian to write the following:

<Lasker has never had a book written about him that does him justice, though I understand that a monster tome on the second World Champion is in the works with IM and jeremysilman.com book reviewer John Donaldson taking part in the writing festivities.>

Source: http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_re...

There's nothing else about it but the reviw discusses a book from 2006 so it's probably a year old, at least (at teh end of the review it says <Copyright © 2007 Jeremy Silman>).

Does anyone know something about the project?

http://chess.about.com/gi/dynamic/o...

Lasker was the real founder of modern chess. If one were to study a typical good Lasker game after it has left opening theory, there would be no way of recognizing that it was played a century ago. He was like an anachronism of his era, a World Champion who played chess (commencing outside of opening theory) the same way that present-day super GMs play chess, in an era where other players were still trying to comprehend the rules of the game. Lasker was consistently playing the middlegame and endgame even better than all of today's super GMs except the very best, who are his equals. On hindsight, it is not really surprising that he reigned and dominated for so long; he was playing chess with a comprehension and at a level that no one else had reached. Lasker had the natural ability (without being taught) to recognize and convert one type of dynamic advantage to another, at a time when Steinitz, Tarrasch, and later Nimzovitch were still trying to formulate the rules for recognizing and playing out static advantages.>