The Second World Chess Champion — Emanuel Lasker (1868 -1941) — Part II

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We continued from the last blog, now we are discussing the career graph of Emanuel Lasker,

In 1904 Lasker published, Lasker’s Chess Magazine, for four years and won against the top masters & came back to a chess career. He just not defeated the world’s first grand champion Mr. Steinetzin 1894 but from 1896–1897. He also played and won against Frank Marshall in 1907, Siegbert Tarrasch in 1908, and separate contests against Carl Schlecter and Dawid Janowski in 1910. In 1921 after World War I, his championship title was finally taken from him by José Raúl Capablanca. After that, he continued to play successfully through 1925, when he retired. In his 60s living in the USSR, after exiled from Nazi-occupied Germany & confiscated his property. Finally, he flees to the U.S. During this misfortune period yet he still managed impressive results.

He developed new endgame concepts and then retired for some years to study philosophy to teach and write. One can see the best use of consciousness in his play, Lasker is considered by modern analysts to have had a style ahead of his time, as many of his moves that his contemporaries considered mysterious are now commonplace. Although playing before the use of statistical rankings, modern analysis regularly places Lasker in the top ten players of all time.

He was also a first-class contract bridge player and wrote about the bridge and other games, comprising Go and his own invention, Lasca. He was a creative teacher and writer. He was the author of several books and magazines. Lasker’s Manual of Chess, Common Sense in Chess, The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909, Struggle, How to Play Chess, Lasker’s Chess Primer are some of his best works.

Lasker was a good friend of Albert Einstein, who wrote the introduction to some of his books. He died in New York on January 11, 1941, at the age of 72.

Notable Games:

• Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 1–0
• Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 1–0
• Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1896 0–1
• Marshall vs Lasker, 1907 0–1
• Lasker vs W Napier, 1904 1–0
• Euwe vs Lasker, 1934 0–1
• Lasker vs Schlechter, 1910 1–0
• Lasker vs Capablanca, 1935 1–0
• Lasker vs Pirc, 1935 1–0
• Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894 1–0

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