#lasker

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Jonathan Lasker Synthetic Flamboyance 1985 Oil on canvas 132.3 x 183.8 cm

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St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament | Шахматный турнир в Петербурге 1914 года by Olga Via Flickr: Schachturnier in St. Petersburg 1914: hintere Reihe v.l.n.r.: A.A. Aljechin (Russland), Jose Raul Capablanca (Kuba), F. Marschall (USA); vorne bei der Partie am Schachbrett Emanuel Lasker (l) und S.Tarrasch (Deutschland)- 21.04.-22.05. 1914 Шахматный турнир в Петербурге 1914 года. Во втором ряду слева направо: А. А. Алехин (Россия), Хосе Рауль Капабланка (Куба), Ф. Маршалл (США); на переднем плане за шахматной доской Эмануил Ласкер (слева) и Зигберт Тарраш (Германия). 21 апреля-22 мая, 1914 год

[theshatterednotes]

Else Lasker-Schüler, German-Jewish poet

[unteriors]

N Garris Street, Lasker, North Carolina.

[artfella]

twitter sketch for lasker

[thecalendarwomen]

Florence R. Sabin

Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.[1] In her retirement years, she pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado, and in 1951 received a Lasker Award for this work.

[studyinglogic]

Rationality limits our actions

When chessplayers of little skill are opposed to each other, it is evident that their choice of moves is somewhat restricted on account of the purpose that they have in view; the checkmate. 

Where a mediocre chessplayer sees ten moves to continue his game, a master may see only two or three. He discards the others as not of sufficient merit. The further the master progresses in skill and foresight the more is he restricted in his choice of moves. It is very similar in other [struggles]. If a mediocre pianist plays a piece before a musical audience he will imagine that he is able to execute his task in a variety of styles. But for Rosenthal or Paderewski only one way of rendering the piece will exist. The higher the class of the artist, the less is his liberty.

- Struggle [pdf] (1907, p. 15-16), by Emanuel Lasker. 

And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do . . . 

- The Master Summoner to Ged, in A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (1971, in the chapter “The Loosing of the Shadow.”) This passage is preceded by the line “You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all.”

Shades of dominance reasoning: it is irrational to choose acts which are dominated (i.e. lead to worse outcomes). And thus the rational agent is constrained in their actions.

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La tontería del día.