Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was the longest officially recognized reigning World Champion of Chess (1894-1921). He was one of the chess greats, a theoretician and attacker and defender. He could adjust his style in relation to his opponent.

Through his five decades chess career (1880’s-1930’s), Lasker excelled both in matches and in tournaments. In the 1893 New York tournament, his score was 13-0. It has been calculated that from 1889-1940 in almost six-hundred games, Lasker scored almost 74 percent. His losing games were about one-tenth, while his number of wins is almost twice as large as his number of draws. The Linders write: “This amounts to the highest percentage among all the strongest players who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries” (Isaak and Vladimir Linder, Emanuel Lasker: 2nd World Chess Champion (Milford, CT: Russell Enterprises, 2010), 156.

Lasker’s life and chess career deserve study and there are fine resources available. See especially the piece here on Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/players/emanuel-lasker#Capablanca. Among other fine studies is the Linders’ book.

The website of the Emanuel Lasker Society is: https://lasker-gesellschaft.de/new-layout-with-lizzys-chess-corner/?lang=en

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