Emanuel Lasker was a Greman chess player, World Chess champion, born in Barlinek in 1868. He died in 1941.
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Emanuel Lasker is widely regarded as one of the defining figures of chess in his era, and remains the benchmark against which later competitors are measured.
The public record credits Emanuel Lasker with 2 recorded honours. Chess is sport as pure calculation, and its champions are studied like composers, move by move, decades after they played.
Achievements
- Germany's Sports Hall of Fame
- world chess champion
