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Home About Login Logout F. With the White pieces:. With the Black pieces:. Emanuel Lasker was the second official World Chess Champion, reigning for a record 27 years after he defeated the first World Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz , in NN vs Lasker. C41 Philidor Defense. A Reif vs Lasker. A02 Bird's Opening. V Tietz vs Lasker. H Seger vs Lasker. Hauptturnier Winners' Group. D30 Queen's Gambit Declined. L Mabillis vs Lasker. C60 Ruy Lopez. Lasker vs Lipke. A07 King's Indian Attack. E von Feyerfeil vs Lasker.

C30 King's Gambit Declined. D00 Queen's Pawn Game. Lasker vs J Bauer. A03 Bird's Opening. Lasker vs A van Foreest. A04 Reti Opening. Nxf4 Re8 Nxd4 Nxd5 Qxd8 Rxd8 Bd4 Re8 Bxf5 Bc4 Nd6 Re8 Nxc8 Nd5 Bf2 Rexc8 Bd3 Nd5 Bxe8 Bg4 O-O-O Rg1 exf4 Bxf7 Bg4 Bxf7 Ne4 Bxe8 Bxb2 Nxc5 Bxh5 Bxh5 Kg2 Nxh5 The material is equal, and White's position doesn't look that threatening. Rh3 Ng3 Kf5 Nc3 Kf4 Black finally resigned. Bb5 d6 4. The knight is heading to g6, bolstering the e5 square.

On the other hand, Black loses some time. Be3 6. Nxd7 8. Ng6 7. Qd2 Be7 8. O-O-O a6 9. Be2 9. Bxc6 Bxc6 Nxh4 Bxh4 Rxh4 Qxh4 Nxd4 Nxd4 White has more space, but in this Spanish structure e4 vs d6 pawn Black has less space, but he doesn't have any weaknesses his pawn structure is compact.

Qd2 Bc6 Nd5 O-O Pawns don't move backward. Bxg5 Rxg5 Bxg5 Bxb7 Rb8 Rxe3 But Lasker's stubbornness is the main reason why this not so spectacular game has become famous. Rf8 Qd3 Re8 White's pieces are perfectly placed, the knight is out of play, and files are opened. Bxg6 fxg6 White's attack is rather abstract, but it will not come to an end. Rxf5 Ka2 Qe2 Qxh8 Re2 Bd3 Kg7 Qb4 b5 Rd1 Qe4 Rxf5 Qe6 Rxe8 Qxe8 Qxe2 R1xe2 Qd7 Rf5 Qxf5 But you can try to imagine how incomprehensive it was for the contemporaries; I really doubt highly anyone understood what a fierce battle between two chess gladiators this encounter really was.

According to some sources, the regulations of the match included a two point clause; Schlechter needed to win the match by a two point margin. However, it is not clear whether such a clause existed. Schlechter's aggressive play was attributed to the fact that he was quite honorable and he played for the win in order not to win a match by a "fluke", after Lasker's blunder from a better position in game 5.

We may never find out the truth, but the players have provided us with a fantastic game nevertheless. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bg7 6. Qb3 Bxf3 8. O-O Bg4 8. Na6 O-O 9. Bd2 Nb4 Bb7 O-O a5 Bd2 Na4 bxa3 Bxa6 Nxc5 Nxc5 Qa4 Rxc5 Qxa6 Ra5 Bxe5 Nf6 Rxb7 Qxb7 Bg7 Qxh2 Qxa6 Qxa6 Bd2 Qd5 Qxd5 cxd5 Rc1 Qd6 Kd2 Be6 Nc7 Bb2 Bb2 Ba6 Rc1 Bb7 Bxg6 Qh5 Bf1 Rfb8 Rf1 fxg6 Qb3 Kd1 Be3 Kd3 Rd8 Bxd4 Kh8 Be3 Bxd4 Qd3 gxf4 This was against the Viennese Carl Schlechter, an extremely tough master who had a string of titles under his belt, notably Munich , Ostende , Stockholm , Vienna , and Hamburg What the match conditions were at the start of the tenth game has been one of the lasting mysteries of chess.

Was Schlechter required to win by at least a two-point margin or was a solitary point enough? There have been no clear answers. He achieved a winning position, but then tragedy struck and Lasker scored a complete reversal. Match conditions and all, the drawn match was another successful title defense for Lasker.

Janowski never really had anything except a few important tournament victories under his name such as Monte Carlo , Hanover , Vienna , and Barmen He lost horribly in just eleven games, prompting a chess publicist to remark humorously that only two things happened in every game — either Lasker won or Janowski lost. The next decade from was a quiet one for chess as in World War I broke out, putting a halt to all international chess activities.

Before the great war, however, Lasker would turn in another performance for the ages. Two years earlier, in , Rubinstein won five straight international tournaments, a feat unheard of at the time. Capablanca, on the other hand, won the great San Sebastian on his maiden international appearance and defeated anyone who dared cross path with such simplicity and ease that he was clearly a genius in the mold of the great Paul Morphy.

Alekhine was yet to hit his stride, but he already showed his devilish attacking prowess that would make him one of the greatest attackers in history. What spectacle it must have been for the chess world when Lasker and these three young champions came together for the great St.

Thrown into the mix were former world title contenders in Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowski and Gunsberg, an icon of the past century in Joseph Blackburne, and a future outstanding theoretician in Aaron Nimzowitsch.

Going into the last two rounds Capablanca held a one-point lead over Lasker and, as if the best game of the tournament were saved for last, they were paired in the penultimate round. In a psychological ploy, Lasker employed a relatively tame opening in an almost must-win situation, complicated the game, and managed to eke out victory in a wildly tense struggle.

Capablanca was so taken aback by this loss that he also lost in the last round to Tarrasch. When all the smoke cleared, Lasker had nicked Capablanca by just a half point. His chase of Capablanca and his mad dash to the tape must have made St. When chess hostilities resumed after the war ended in , Lasker was already fifty years old and was nearing the twilight of his life. Rubinstein was still good, but he lost his dominance and slowly faded out of the world championship picture.

Alekhine continued developing, but Capablanca went from strength to strength. By the s Capablanca had clearly taken the mantle from Lasker, and their World Championship of was all but mere formality for the crowning of the new king.

Lasker resigned the match after trailing in their twenty-four game series. Lasker would have wanted to ride into the sunset after losing his title, for he was a man of giant intellect and had many other interests. He was a mathematician, philosopher and writer.

Chess, however, was his primary means of livelihood, and when he later faced Nazi persecution in the s and lost all his property, he found himself forced to continue playing. He would have three more spectacular performances before finally closing the curtains — New York , of the same strength as St. Petersburg , which he won; Moscow in which he placed second behind future world championship challenger Efim Bogoljubov; lastly, Moscow in which he went undefeated and placed second behind new stars Salo Flohr and Mikhail Botvinnik, and against a whole new generation of strong players and a generally higher level of play.

In all of them he placed ahead of his rival Capablanca, and his performance in Moscow is said to be the greatest ever for a sixty-five-year-old. If the first world champion, Steinitz, was a thinker, Lasker who succeeded him was a player. As one, he has not left behind any lasting theoretical contribution, but his legacy is far greater than anybody of knowledge he might have otherwise shared. He would fight tooth and nail to the very end. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies.

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