Chess

Mentions per year

What Hacker News says

• nileshtrivedi · Aug 10, 2013 · Recommends

  …rectangle that shows that it's a placeholder for a value? > Students who said the answer was 44, how did the students who said 26 arrive at their answer? I came across a great example of this approach in Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor by Edward Lasker. Instead of just showing the right answer for a chess puzzle, he tells you what you did right in your answer and what you missed in getting an even better answer.…

  on “A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf]” ↗
• vmilner · Feb 28, 2022 · Mentions

  Well, the chess one is still in print: https://www.amazon.co.uk/CHESS-COMPLETE-SELF-TUTOR-Self-Tuto... and i can see several of the others on secondhand sites (eg ABE books) for varying prices, but often not too expensive,…

  on “Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?” ↗
• EdwardCoffin · Dec 7, 2015 · Mentions

  I think there's a typo in HAKMEM: item 70 is a chess problem purportedly stolen from Lasker's Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood. As far as I can tell, it is problem 66 from Lasker's book, on page 145 [1]. However, there's a crucial mistake: the white bishop…

  on “HAKMEM (1972)” ↗
• EdwardCoffin · Sep 30, 2017 · Mentions

  Item 70, The chess problem "stolen from Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood" by Lasker is problem 66 from that book [1]. The problem as stated in the memo is wrong: the white bishop is on the eighth rank, not the seventh, so…

  on “HAKMEM (1972)” ↗
• EdwardCoffin · Dec 31, 2018 · Mentions

  The chess problem described in item 70 always surprised me. It just didn't seem worthy of inclusion. A few years ago I happened across the book by Lasker that it was drawn from and found that they'd made a typo…

  on “HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]” ↗