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Emanuel Lasker

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Emanuel Lasker

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former World Chess champion (1868–1941)

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Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868, and died on January 11, 1941. He is an author with works listed in the Open Library, which includes titles such as *Kampf*, *The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909 (Classic Reprint)*, *Lasker's Manual of Chess, with 308 Diagrams*, *Mein Wettkampf Mit Capablanca*, and *Laker's How to Play Chess*. The Open Library records 22 works by him, while Crossref lists five works.

His name appears in the Stack Exchange tag for "lasker" and in the Commons category and gallery for "Emanuel Lasker." In music databases, he is listed under the name Emanuel Lasker with 3 listeners and a playcount of 5. He is referenced by 410 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
22

Top works

  • Kampf
  • The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909 (Classic Reprint)
  • Lasker's Manual of Chess, with 308 Diagrams
  • Mein Wettkampf Mit Capablanca
  • Laker's How to Play Chess

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
5

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    · 1984 · cited 21,450x

  2. Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils

    · 2009 · cited 10,400x

  3. A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation

    · 1974 · cited 8,786x

  4. On Estimation of a Probability Density Function and Mode

    · 1962 · cited 7,990x

  5. Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

    · 2001 · cited 7,884x

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Quotes

  • “What is immobile must suffer violence. The light-winged bird will easily escape the huge dragon, but the firmly rooted big tree must remain where it is and may have to give up its leaves, fruit, perhaps even its life.”
  • “On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.”
  • “You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method is plastic. It is applicable in every situation.”
  • “He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess — artificial theories, supported by few instances and upheld by an excess of human wit; the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to a standstill or to anarchy.”
  • “Dr. Tarrasch is a thinker, fond of deep and complex speculation. He will accept the efficacy and usefulness of a move if at the same time he considers it beautiful and theoretically right. But I accept that sort of beauty only if and when it happens to be useful. He admires an idea for its depth, I admire it for its efficacy. My opponent believes in beauty, I believe in strength. I think that by being strong, a move is beautiful too.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Emanuel Lasker ( German pronunciation: [eˈmaːnuɛl ˈlaskɐ] ; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) 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.

His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents. Recent analysis, however, indicates that he was ahead of his time and used a more flexible approach than his contemporaries, which mystified many of them. Lasker knew contemporary analyses of openings well but disagreed with many of them. He published chess magazines and five chess books, but later players and commentators found it difficult to draw lessons from his methods.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emanuel Lasker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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