Lasker in Paris
Lasker traveled to Paris, rented a room and visited the famous "Cafe de la Regence" to meet famous players. Lasker enjoyed himself very much until after midnight. Then he intended to return to his room but he couldn't remember the address anymore. He couldn't recall the name of the street and was embarrassed about this. Finally somebody invited him to sleep at his place.
The next day he sent a telegram to a friend in London and asked him to sent him the address of his room. This was logical but he forgot to include an address in the telegram and so his friend couldn't sent him the answer. The day after Lasker searched methodically in the districts of Paris to find the room he had rented. After some luck he eventually found it.
Quite happily he greeted the woman who opened the door. She had a piece of paper in her hands and gave it to him. It was the answer-telegram of his friend in London who had sent it to the address Lasker couldn't find, as he didn't know where else he should sent it to.
Quiet please!
On a cold day in December 1945 two chess players were sitting in a coffeehouse in Berlin playing each other and were deeply immersed in the calculations of various chess variations in their game.
The Allied Forces were bombing the city heavily and suddenlythere was a terrible big noise outside, right in front of the coffeehouse. Something must have been hit and blasted away.
"Bloody noisy outside today!", murmured one of them deeply in thought. "Shut up, damned!"
After about ten minutes the other one said: "It's very cold in here! Why, for christ's sake, can't they turn up the damned heating?"
After the game was finished they went in direction door. The room seemed to be somehow bigger as usual.
"Hey, there is something wrong here, don't you think? I can't find the door." It was already late at night and dark, they went further and suddenly they were standing on the road. They had a look around and were amazed to see, that the forefront of the coffeehouse was completely missing and that a lot of houses were completely destroyed.
The strongest Move I've ever seen!
You will agree that this game is just incredible. The following game was played in London 1927.White: Palau (Argentine) Black: Kalabar (Jugoslavia)
Now finally Black realized that he had moved the king to e7 before and not of the queen.
Emanuel Lasker 1896 - chess stories
Lasker received a box of cigars from a man, just before his match with Steinitz. The man said: "Smoke those cigars during the games. They will bring you luck."
Lasker smoked one cigar before the match, but was disgusted because the quality of the cigars was very bad. So he threw the whole rubbish away.
After he won the match he met this man again.
"My cigars brought you luck, didn't they?"
"Of course, they did!" said Lasker.
"So, you did smoke them all?"
"Not me! I gave them my opponent, he smoked them. And this brought me luck and victory."