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Author Re: Was Emanuel Lasker a racist?
Mike Murray

2004-09-25, 12:48 am

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:38:11 GMT, jurgenr@web.de (Jürgen R.) wrote:
quote:

>...Einstein, who is
>unimpeachable regarding his humanistic views, knew Lasker well in his
>later years and read some his writings, and Einstein respected L. not
>simply as a chess player...


From what I remember reading, Einstein regarded Lasker as an
autodidact in areas where the latter had not specialized, and believed
Lasker to have wasted much effort plowing ground already worked by
other thinkers.

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