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I believe Edward Winter refers to this 24 move Einstein game in: Chess Notes #3691. Einstein game (C.N.s 3533 & 3667) A. Soltis gave the alleged Einstein game on page 372 of the July 1979 Chess Life & Review, with the following introductory note: ‘I’ve tried to find a good game by top-flight scientists without success. The following, which can boast of two of the greatest names in physics, will have to do. It was apparently played in the late 1940s when Hans Albert Einstein, son of the Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer were both on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. Hans Albert was, by the way, an internationally known hydraulic engineer – an expert on control of rivers.’ As usual, Soltis offered nothing whatsoever to back up his assertions about the circumstances in which the game was ‘apparently’ played.
Taken from: Einstein and Go, by Robert A. McCallister 'When I first started to learn the game of go there was very little available about it in the English language. A book that was in print at that time was Dr. Edward Lasker's Modern Chess Strategy with an appendix on Go. I immediately bought it and it provided me with a beginning. Later, as I became involved in the New York City go world, I met Lasker, one of the stronger players in the area in the early 1950s. Lasker had first learned go around 1907, when an engineering student in Berlin. His parents had wanted him to study medicine but he opted for engineering, as it provided him the opportunity to study in Berlin. His real interest at the time was chess, and Berlin offered him the chance to study and improve his game. He first became interested in go by watching Japanese students play and, as he wrote, `with astounding perseverance and passion.' He used to visit a cafe to play chess, and one evening a Japanese gentleman left his newspaper. By looking at the game record in the paper, Lasker and his friends began to appreciate go's complexity and this started his study of the game. After graduating, Lasker worked in England until World War I, then went to the United States. By then he was a world-class chess player and quite active in tournaments during the 1920s. Samples of his games can be found in various books discussing chess activity of the time. I believe, though am not certain, that he taught go to his cousin Emanuel Lasker, who became the World Chess Champion at 24 by beating Steinitz and losing only to Capablanca 26 years later. In any case, Emanuel Lasker became very interested in go and developed into a fairly strong player. Edward Lasker wrote Go and Gomoku, first published in 1934 and of much interest, as it included the famous game between Junichi Karigane and Honinbo Shusai, played in 1926. Lasker and Albert Einstein were friends. On one occasion Lasker visited Einstein in Princeton and presented him with an autographed copy of Go and Gomoku. In exchange, Einstein gave Lasker an autographed copy of one of his papers on relativity. Several years later, the autographed copy of Go and Gomoku showed up in a used bookstore in Baltimore. When told about this and asked what he thought of it, Lasker replied: `That's all right. I left his relativity paper on the subway.'
Albert Einstein hated competitive and agressive spirit of Chess, in one opportunity he said he has not time to play games, but he played Chess once in a while in some moments of his life. I have found this curiosity: Albert Einstein - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Princeton 1933 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Nf6 6.O-O Nxe4 7.Re1 d5 8.a4?! [8.d3] b4?! [8...Bc5] 9.d3 Nc5?! [9...Nf6] 10.Nxe5 Ne7 11.Qf3 [threatening 12.Qxf7 mate] f6? [11...Be6] 12.Qh5+! g6 13.Nxg6! hxg6 [13...Rg8 14.Nxe7+ Kd7 15.Qxd5+ Ke8 16.Qxg8] 14.Qxh8 Nxb3 15.cxb3 Qd6? [15...Kf7] 16.Bh6 Kd7 17.Bxf8 Bb7 18.Qg7 Re8 19.Nd2 c5 20.Rad1 [or 20.Re2] a5 21.Nc4! dxc4 [21...Qc7 22.Bxe7] 22.dxc4 Qxd1 23.Rxd1+ Kc8 24.Bxe7 1-0
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