Chess / by Shelby Lyman
Updated: 10/12/2012, 03:43 PM
At first glance they are a pair of odd fellows. One’s bailiwick was the universe, the other an 8 by 8 board of indeterminate size with funny-looking icons distilled from human history.
We are talking of two very good friends, Albert Einstein and Emanuel Lasker: two Jewish guys born a decade apart in Germany and later coming to rest less than 70 miles apart in Northeast United States.
My God! What could they have in common? Physics and chess, the universe and crowded smoke-filled cafes?
In fact both did like tobacco. Albert the academician favored pipes, Emanuel the pugnacious games player (bridge as well as chess) wielded his cigar, sometimes subtlely and sometimes not so subtlely, as if he had an extra chess piece in hand.
Perhaps the combination of the two was not so strange: a physicist and a chess player.
Bobby Fischer, considered by many the greatest chess player of all time, was the legal son of one physicist, the biological son of another and the half-brother of a third.
What united Einstein and Lasker was the love for and pursuit of science.
Speaking for Lasker, Einstein describes that pursuit with his usual clarity: “His [Lasker’s] real interest, involved penetrating into science, in the beauty of its logical constructs, that everyone could appreciate once they had experienced it firsthand.”
Einstein’s province was the infinity of the physical universe; Lasker’s, the infinite universe of existential man as expressed particularly in the seemingly mundane parameters of a board game.
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Einstein is Jewish?
The Einsteins were non-observant Jews. Einstein’s relationship to Judaism was obviously not religious.
zeige niemals dein Unwissen ohne jede Gelegenheit genutzt zu haben dieses zu verbergen! Never show your ignorance without having used any opportunity to hide this!
Just see the beauty and power of Einstein’s mind(and of course the beauty and power of Maths). He had his General relativity papers ready, and finally the solar eclipse experiment by others proved that he was correct!. So first theory and then experiment!. Scientists always are ahead of time. The famous consequence of his general relativity is
‘Gravity slows down time’. In science there is not only intuition, and there is that extra step for generalization. So an expert in some domain may show us number of ways to solve a problem, but only a Mathematician can finish it in the most beautiful way, by generalization(Theorem and proof) and hence proving that it can work for all cases. Quantum mechanics is considered as the greatest human intellectual achievement of 20th century. No wonder,Einstein has a share in its early foundation.