Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker · Sports
German chess master; World Chess Champion for 27 years (1894-1921), the longest reign in history.
1868, Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland) — 1941, New York City, United States
Germany · United States
Emanuel Lasker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — German chess master; World Chess Champion for 27 years (1894-1921), the longest reign in history.
Emanuel Lasker, born into a German-Jewish family, was World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921 — the longest reign in the game's history — and also a serious mathematician and philosopher who introduced ideas later central to commutative algebra. His psychological, fighting approach to the board transformed competitive chess. He was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany late in life.
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German chess master; World Chess Champion for 27 years (1894-1921), the longest reign in history.
Source: https://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Champions.html
