It is always fascinating to read what the world chess champions have to say about their clashes with other strong players and about chess in general. Last year, Russell Enterprises published two classic tournament books, using figurine algebraic notation. In "St. Petersburg 1909" the world chess champion Emanuel Lasker comments on all the games of the event, in which he shared first place with Akiba Rubinstein. Alexander Alekhine's "New York 1924" has been hailed as one of the best tournament books. It was another triumph for Lasker, in which he finished ahead of Jose Raul Capablanca and Alekhine. The book is valuable for its deep verbal annotations with ...

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I'm officially embarrassed! I'm a hardcore Alekhine fan, and did not even know this book existed lol! I went straight to Amazon!

In the U.S. the book was printed in the 1970's by Dover in descriptive notation. (The Dover company today is not the same company).
The comments on the back cover of the Dover edition indicated that the young Alekhine learned Chess from Lasker's comments.

See: St. Petersburg 1909 and 1914
Photos and history.
"After Chigorin's death, the club decided to organise a memorial Tournament". Rubinstein and Lasker tied for first. Each won 875 rubles.
Rubinstein probably was indicated as the winner as he beat Lasker and the players who finished 2,3, & 4 behind him.
Alekhine as a schoolboy won the All-Russian Tournament.
He won a vase.
"Lasker wrote the tournament book. His claim ‘This is a book in which analysis is accurate’ can be easily refuted with the modern means".
The new book 2008 printed by Russell:
"This is the official tournament book – available for the first time in English in algebraic notation – written by Emanuel Lasker. He annotated all 175 games in the clear, instructive style that would become his trademark."

Notes: See Chess notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an explanation
of Descriptive notation. Also sometimes called English descriptive notation.

Editions available beside the Russell edition.

International Chess Congress (New Ed) (Paperback) by Emanuel Lasker
Edition: New Ed (1971-01-01) Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Price range: $10.99 to $150 and up.
Der internationale Schachkongress zu St. Petersburg 1909
Gebundene Ausgabe - 2008-11 )
by Emanuel Lasker
Publisher: Edition Olms Date published: 2008-11