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on Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:53am.
Early years Emanuel Lasker was born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland), the son of a Jewish cantor. At the age of 11 he was sent to Berlin to study mathematics, where he lived with his brother Berthold, eight years his s... Read more »
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on Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:31pm.
I recently purchased Lasker's Manual of Chess by Emanuel Lasker. It has since made me interested in the man here is some research I copied from wikepedia. Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German c... Read more »
Submitted by
on Wed Jul 2, 2008 9:05am.
Ok, I admit I put Morphy in the title to garner attention, But John Owen did play and beat Paul Morphy. Morphy is one of my favorite chess players for many reasons but while studying Morphy I find that you meet a lot of other very interesti... Read more »
Submitted by
on Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:30am.
Assessment Playing strength and styleAnderssen was the king of European tournaments from 1851 to early 1878, taking first prize in over half of the events in which he played. His only recorded tournament failures were a 1-game-per-round kno... Read more »
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on Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:01am.
1866-1879 By this time tournaments were becoming more frequent, and the general adoption of the round-robin format meant that the occasional lost game was not such a disaster. Anderssen took advantage of these developments to compile a very succe... Read more »
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on Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:54am.
Steinitz match, 1866 In 1866 Anderssen lost a close match with 30-year-old Wilhelm Steinitz (6 wins, 8 losses, no draws; level at 6-6, then Steinitz won the last 2 games)[28] Although Steinitz is now known for inventing the positional approach to... Read more »
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on Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:37pm.
Post Morphy - London 1862 Three years after being defeated by Morphy, Anderssen won the London 1862 International tournament, the first international round-robin event (in which each participant plays a game against each of the others) with... Read more »
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on Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:47am.
Other games 1851-1862 Opportunies for tournament play remained rare, and Anderssen was reluctant to travel far because of the expense. His one recorded tournament between 1851 and 1862 was at Manchester in 1857, and had an unfortunate outco... Read more »
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on Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:16pm.
Morphy match, 1858 For the next few years Anderssen was considered by many people to be the world's best player, but as he needed to earn a living, he had to return to his teaching profession after the competition. Then in late 1858 he ... Read more »
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on Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:25am.
London 1851 In 1848 Anderssen drew a match with the professional player Daniel Harrwitz. On the basis of this match and his general chess reputation, he received an invitation to represent German chess at the 1851 London International Tournament... Read more »