“Lasker occasionally loses a game, but he never loses his head.”
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion, winning 6 World Chess Championships. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions.
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Born 24 December 1868 · Died 11 January 1941 · Q57095
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2026· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Emanuel Lasker Charges Manhattan Chess Club Was Unfair in 1924 Tournament
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2025· 1 entry
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Emanuel Lasker Invited to Soviet Chess Meet
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2020· 1 entry
Values); the time limit should be twelve moves per hour; play should be limited to two sessions of 2½ hours each per day, five days a week
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Germany's Sports Hall of Fame (2008).
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1964· 1 entry
Chessworld magazine published an article in which future World Champion Bobby Fischer listed the ten greatest players in history
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1941· 2 entries
At the age of 72, as a charity patient at the Mount Sinai Hospital
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Died 1941-01-11.
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1940· 2 entries
Published his last book, The Community of the Future, in which he proposed solutions for serious political problems, including anti-Semitism and unemployment
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Which was never completed due to Lasker's illness and subsequent death a few months after it started
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1936· 1 entry
(15 years after their match), when Lasker was 67, did Capablanca finish ahead of him
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1935· 1 entry
Were invited to live in the USSR by Nikolai Krylenko, the Soviet Sports Minister and an enthusiastic supporter of chess
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1931· 1 entry
Urn:nbn:at:at-ubms:3-1736 – includes sections about Go and Lasca
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1930· 1 entry
Lasker was a special correspondent for Dutch and German newspapers reporting on the Culbertson-Buller bridge match during which he became a registered teacher of the Culbertson system
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1929· 1 entry
Urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-331248 – not only a translation of Encyclopedia of Games
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1926· 2 entries
“s Manual of Chess. He also wrote books on other games of mental skill: Encyclopedia of Games (1929) and Das verständige Kartenspiel (means”
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Lasker wrote Lehrbuch des Schachspiels, which he re-wrote in English in 1927 as Lasker's Manual of Chess
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1925· 1 entry
(1½ points behind Efim Bogoljubow, ½ point ahead of Capablanca), he effectively retired from serious chess
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1921· 1 entry
Noting that Capablanca was not free to play in 1920
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1920· 1 entry
That nullified the contract with Capablanca if Lasker lost a title match in 1920, and that stipulated that if Lasker resigned the title Capablanca should become World Champion
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1914· 1 entry
Which Lasker needed in order to retain any chance of catching up with Capablanca, is sometimes offered as evidence of his "psychological" approach
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1912· 1 entry
Lasker entered into negotiations for a world title match with Akiba Rubinstein, whose tournament record for the previous few years had been on a par with Lasker's and a little ahead of Capablanca's
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1911· 1 entry
Lasker received a challenge for a world title match against the rising star José Raúl Capablanca
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1910· 1 entry
Wrote a weekly chess column for the New York Evening Post, for which he was Chess Editor
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1909· 1 entry
Lasker drew a short match (two wins, two losses) against Dawid Janowski, an all-out attacking Polish expatriate
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1907· 2 entries
Or 1908 (Edward Lasker wrote a successful book Go and Go-Moku in 1934)
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Lasker quoted with approval Rice's views on the convergence of chess and military strategy
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1906· 2 entries
Lasker published a booklet titled Kampf (Struggle), in which he attempted to create a general theory of all competitive activities, including chess, business and war
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Lasker and Géza Maróczy agreed to terms for a World Championship, but the arrangements could not be finalised, and the match never took place
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1905· 1 entry
Established a theorem on primary decompositions of which Emmy Noether developed a more generalized form, which is now regarded as of fundamental importance to abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
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1904· 1 entry
To a match for the World Championship but could not raise the stakes demanded by Lasker until 1907
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1903· 1 entry
Lasker played in Ostend against Mikhail Chigorin, a six-game match that was sponsored by the wealthy lawyer and industrialist Isaac Rice in order to test the Rice Gambit
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1901· 1 entry
Presented his doctoral thesis Über Reihen auf der Convergenzgrenze ("On Series at Convergence Boundaries") at Erlangen and in the same year it was published by the Royal Society
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1895· 1 entry
Published two mathematical articles in Nature
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1894· 2 entries
Awarded world chess champion (1894).
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At venues in New York, Philadelphia, and Montreal
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1893· 1 entry
Won all thirteen games, one of the few times in chess history that a player has achieved a perfect score in a significant tournament
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1892· 2 entries
Publicly telling him to go and win an international tournament first
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Lasker founded the first of his chess magazines, The London Chess Fortnightly, which was published from August 15, 1892, to July 30, 1893
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1890· 1 entry
Drew a short playoff match against his brother Berthold and won all his other matches from 1889 to 1893, mostly against top-class opponents: Curt von Bardeleben (1889), Jacques Mieses (1889), Henry Edward Bird (1890),
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1868· 2 entries
At Berlinchen in Neumark (now Barlinek in Poland), the son of a Jewish cantor
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Born 1868-12-24.
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