Judit Polgar (Hungary) Playing against Diane Savereide (U.S.A.) at the 1988 Thessaloniki, Greece, Olympiad.
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🔸 Emanuel Lasker
🔸 German chess player
🔸 World Chess Champion for 27 years
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🔸 Emanuel Lasker
🔸 German chess player
🔸 World Chess Champion for 27 years
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@unitychess
✴️ About Lasker
🔸 Emanuel Lasker
🔸 German chess player
🔸 World Chess Champion for 27 years
🔰 Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.
▪️ Born: December 24, 1868
🔺 Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland)
▪️ Died: January 11, 1941 (aged 72)
🔺 New York City, United States
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🔰 Lasker, the son of a Jewish cantor, first left Prussia in 1889 and only five years later won the world chess championship from Wilhelm Steinitz. He went on to a series of stunning wins in tournaments at St. Petersburg, Nürnberg, London, and Paris before concentrating on his education. In 1902 he received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
In 1904 Lasker resumed his chess career, publishing a magazine, Lasker’s Chess Magazine, for four years and winning against the top masters. Though the championship title was finally taken from him in 1921 by José Raúl Capablanca, he continued to play successfully through 1925, when he retired. He was forced out of retirement, however, after Nazi Germany confiscated his property in 1933. Fleeing first to England, then to the U.S.S.R., and finally to the U.S., he returned to tournament play, where he again competed at the highest levels, a rare achievement for his age.
Lasker changed the nature of chess not in its strategy but in its economic base. He became the first chess master to demand high fees and thus paved the way to strengthening the financial status of professional chess players. He invented new endgame theories and then retired for some years to study philosophy and to teach and write. His book Common Sense in Chess (1896) is considered a classic.
SOURCE: BRITANNICA.COM
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♦️ A memorable game by Lasker: 👇
🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz vs Emanuel Lasker
🔸 World Championship Rematch (1896), Moscow RUE, rd 3, Nov-17
🔸 Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Main Line (C54)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Emanuel Lasker
🔸 German chess player
🔸 World Chess Champion for 27 years
🔰 Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.
▪️ Born: December 24, 1868
🔺 Berlinchen, Prussia (now Barlinek, Poland)
▪️ Died: January 11, 1941 (aged 72)
🔺 New York City, United States
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🔰 Lasker, the son of a Jewish cantor, first left Prussia in 1889 and only five years later won the world chess championship from Wilhelm Steinitz. He went on to a series of stunning wins in tournaments at St. Petersburg, Nürnberg, London, and Paris before concentrating on his education. In 1902 he received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
In 1904 Lasker resumed his chess career, publishing a magazine, Lasker’s Chess Magazine, for four years and winning against the top masters. Though the championship title was finally taken from him in 1921 by José Raúl Capablanca, he continued to play successfully through 1925, when he retired. He was forced out of retirement, however, after Nazi Germany confiscated his property in 1933. Fleeing first to England, then to the U.S.S.R., and finally to the U.S., he returned to tournament play, where he again competed at the highest levels, a rare achievement for his age.
Lasker changed the nature of chess not in its strategy but in its economic base. He became the first chess master to demand high fees and thus paved the way to strengthening the financial status of professional chess players. He invented new endgame theories and then retired for some years to study philosophy and to teach and write. His book Common Sense in Chess (1896) is considered a classic.
SOURCE: BRITANNICA.COM
WIKIPEDIA
♦️ A memorable game by Lasker: 👇
🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz vs Emanuel Lasker
🔸 World Championship Rematch (1896), Moscow RUE, rd 3, Nov-17
🔸 Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Main Line (C54)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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⚛️ Unity Chess Students are in the road of World Chess Chamionship!!
‼️ Congratulations to Sophia Peng who managed to pass 1700 at the September Unity Open! With a peak rating over 1700, Sophia qualifies for the World Cadet Chess Championships Girls U12 in Weifang, China in August, 2019!
👏👏👏👏🌺🌹💐🌸☘️🌷
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‼️ Congratulations to Sophia Peng who managed to pass 1700 at the September Unity Open! With a peak rating over 1700, Sophia qualifies for the World Cadet Chess Championships Girls U12 in Weifang, China in August, 2019!
👏👏👏👏🌺🌹💐🌸☘️🌷
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✴️ Unity Chess Students are in the road of World Chess Chamionship!!
‼️ Amazing job by Roshan Sethuraman who gained 500 rating points in four months going from 1100 to over 1600! His great performance and hard work qualifies him for the World Cadet Chess Championships U8 in Weifang, China in August, 2019!
👏👏👏👏🌺🌹💐🌸☘️🌷
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‼️ Amazing job by Roshan Sethuraman who gained 500 rating points in four months going from 1100 to over 1600! His great performance and hard work qualifies him for the World Cadet Chess Championships U8 in Weifang, China in August, 2019!
👏👏👏👏🌺🌹💐🌸☘️🌷
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28.dxc5?! [Missing a chance to gain an advantage.]
[28.Qxb3! axb3 29.Kc1 cxd4 (29...Rc7? 30.dxc5 Rxd2 31.Rxd2 △Rd8 31...h5 32.cxb6 Rxc4+ 33.Kd1 Rc6 34.Nxe4 Rxb6 35.Rd8+ Kh7 36.Rb8 f5 37.Ng5+ Kg6 38.Ke1+–) 30.Rxd4 Rxd4 31.Rxd4 Rxd4 32.exd4 △Kd2 32...e3 33.Ng4 e2 34.Kd2 The black pawns are very exposed. 34...Bxg2 35.Kxe2 h5 36.Ne3 Be4 37.Kd2 △kc3 37...g5 38.fxg5 fxg5 39.Kc3 g4 40.Kxb3 Bf3 41.c5 bxc5 42.dxc5+–]
28...Qxc2+ 29.Kxc2 Rxd2+ 30.Rxd2 Rxd2+ 31.Kxd2 bxc5 32.Kc3 Kg8 33.b4 axb3 34.Kxb3 Bc6 35.Nd1 Kf7 36.Nc3 f5 37.Na4?? [A fatal blunder that costs White the game.]
[Darini should have kept the knight on the board: 37.a4 Ke7 38.a5 △a6 38...Bb7 39.Nb5 h6 40.g3 Kd7 41.h4 Ba6 42.Ka4 Kc6 43.Na3 Bc8=]
37...Bxa4+! 38.Kxa4 e5–+ [Black creates a protected passed pawn.]
39.Kb3 [39.g3 exf4 40.gxf4 g5 △f4 41.Kb3 gxf4 42.exf4 Ke6 43.Kc3 Kd6 44.Kd2 Kc6 45.Kc3 Kb6 46.Kc2 Ka5 47.Kb3 e3 48.Kc3 Ka4 49.Kd3 Kxa3 50.Kxe3 Kb4 51.Kd3 Kb3–+]
39...exf4! 40.exf4 Ke6 0–1
[28.Qxb3! axb3 29.Kc1 cxd4 (29...Rc7? 30.dxc5 Rxd2 31.Rxd2 △Rd8 31...h5 32.cxb6 Rxc4+ 33.Kd1 Rc6 34.Nxe4 Rxb6 35.Rd8+ Kh7 36.Rb8 f5 37.Ng5+ Kg6 38.Ke1+–) 30.Rxd4 Rxd4 31.Rxd4 Rxd4 32.exd4 △Kd2 32...e3 33.Ng4 e2 34.Kd2 The black pawns are very exposed. 34...Bxg2 35.Kxe2 h5 36.Ne3 Be4 37.Kd2 △kc3 37...g5 38.fxg5 fxg5 39.Kc3 g4 40.Kxb3 Bf3 41.c5 bxc5 42.dxc5+–]
28...Qxc2+ 29.Kxc2 Rxd2+ 30.Rxd2 Rxd2+ 31.Kxd2 bxc5 32.Kc3 Kg8 33.b4 axb3 34.Kxb3 Bc6 35.Nd1 Kf7 36.Nc3 f5 37.Na4?? [A fatal blunder that costs White the game.]
[Darini should have kept the knight on the board: 37.a4 Ke7 38.a5 △a6 38...Bb7 39.Nb5 h6 40.g3 Kd7 41.h4 Ba6 42.Ka4 Kc6 43.Na3 Bc8=]
37...Bxa4+! 38.Kxa4 e5–+ [Black creates a protected passed pawn.]
39.Kb3 [39.g3 exf4 40.gxf4 g5 △f4 41.Kb3 gxf4 42.exf4 Ke6 43.Kc3 Kd6 44.Kd2 Kc6 45.Kc3 Kb6 46.Kc2 Ka5 47.Kb3 e3 48.Kc3 Ka4 49.Kd3 Kxa3 50.Kxe3 Kb4 51.Kd3 Kb3–+]
39...exf4! 40.exf4 Ke6 0–1
19.Bf3! [Taking more control over the central squares and clearing the e-file for his major pieces.]
[19.exf5 Nxf5 20.Bg4!² (20.Bf3 Na5 21.Bxb7 Nxb3 22.axb3 Qxb7 23.Qe2 Qf7) ; 19.Bd3 fxe4 20.Bxe4 b5 21.cxb5 Qb6+ 22.Kh1 axb5 23.Qe2 Rxf4 24.Bxc6 Bxc6 25.Qxe6+ Rf7 26.Nd4 Bd7 27.Qb3 d5 28.Ncxb5 Rf2 29.Nc7 Qxb3 30.Nxb3 Rdf8 31.Nc5 Bf5 32.b4 Rc8 33.Nxd5 Nxd5 34.Rxd5 Rxa2=]
19...Na5 [19...fxe4 20.Bxe4 b5 21.cxb5 Qb6+ 22.Kh1 axb5 23.Re1²]
20.Nxa5 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Qxa5 22.Qe2 e5 23.exf5 Bxf3 24.Qxf3 Nxf5 [24...Rxf5? 25.Qb7±]
25.fxe5 Qxe5 26.Re1 Qd4 27.Qd5+ Qxd5 28.Nxd5 Nh4 29.Re2 b5 30.cxb5 axb5 31.g3 Nf5 32.Rc7 Rc8?? [32...Kh8±]
33.Nf6+! Rxf6 [33...Kh8?? 34.Rxh7#]
34.Rxc8+ Kg7 35.Rc7+ Kh6 36.Kg2 d5 37.Rd7 d4 38.h4 g5 39.hxg5+ Kxg5 40.Rd5 Kg6 41.Kh3 1–0
[19.exf5 Nxf5 20.Bg4!² (20.Bf3 Na5 21.Bxb7 Nxb3 22.axb3 Qxb7 23.Qe2 Qf7) ; 19.Bd3 fxe4 20.Bxe4 b5 21.cxb5 Qb6+ 22.Kh1 axb5 23.Qe2 Rxf4 24.Bxc6 Bxc6 25.Qxe6+ Rf7 26.Nd4 Bd7 27.Qb3 d5 28.Ncxb5 Rf2 29.Nc7 Qxb3 30.Nxb3 Rdf8 31.Nc5 Bf5 32.b4 Rc8 33.Nxd5 Nxd5 34.Rxd5 Rxa2=]
19...Na5 [19...fxe4 20.Bxe4 b5 21.cxb5 Qb6+ 22.Kh1 axb5 23.Re1²]
20.Nxa5 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Qxa5 22.Qe2 e5 23.exf5 Bxf3 24.Qxf3 Nxf5 [24...Rxf5? 25.Qb7±]
25.fxe5 Qxe5 26.Re1 Qd4 27.Qd5+ Qxd5 28.Nxd5 Nh4 29.Re2 b5 30.cxb5 axb5 31.g3 Nf5 32.Rc7 Rc8?? [32...Kh8±]
33.Nf6+! Rxf6 [33...Kh8?? 34.Rxh7#]
34.Rxc8+ Kg7 35.Rc7+ Kh6 36.Kg2 d5 37.Rd7 d4 38.h4 g5 39.hxg5+ Kxg5 40.Rd5 Kg6 41.Kh3 1–0
39.Nc4? [39.Re4! Bc3 40.Re2 Rf5 41.g3 Rb5 42.Nc4 Rd5 43.Re3 Bd4 44.Re4 Bc3 45.Ne5 f6 46.Nc6 Rxd3 47.Nxb4 Rxg3 48.Kh2 Rg7 49.Nd5 f5 50.Rc4 Be1 51.a4 Kf7 52.Rc6 Rg6 53.Rxg6 Kxg6 54.Kg2 Kf7 55.Kf3+–; 39.Kh2 Bd4 40.Nd7+ Kg7 41.Re4 Bc3 42.Nb6 Bd2 43.Nc4 Rxa2 44.Nxd2 Rxd2 45.Rxb4 Rxd3 46.Rb6 h5 47.Rb5 Kg6 48.Rg5+ Kh6+/=]
39...Rxa2 40.Nxb2 Rxb2 41.Re4 Kg7 42.Kh2 Kf6 43.Kg3 Kg6 44.Rd4 Rd2? [44...f6 45.Kf3 b3 46.Rb4 h5 47.d4+/=]
45.Rxb4 Rxd3+ 46.Kg4 Rd5 47.Rb6+ Kg7 48.Kh4 Rf5 49.Rb4 Ra5 50.Rb3 Ra4 51.g3 Kg6 52.Rb6+ Kg7 53.Rd6 Ra3 54.f5 Ra5 55.g4 Ra3 56.Rd1 Rb3 57.Rg1 Ra3 58.Rg3 Ra7 59.Rb3 Rc7 60.Kh5 Rc6 61.Rb7 Ra6 62.h4 Rf6 63.Ra7 Kg8 64.Ra5 Rb6 65.g5 hxg5 66.hxg5 Rb1 67.g6 Rh1+ 68.Kg5 Rg1+ 69.Kf6 fxg6 70.Ra8+ Kh7 71.Ra7+ Kg8 72.Rg7+ Kf8 73.Ra7 Kg8 74.Rg7+ Kf8 75.Rxg6 Ra1 76.Rg2 Ra6+ 77.Kg5 Rb6 78.Ra2 Kf7 ½–½
39...Rxa2 40.Nxb2 Rxb2 41.Re4 Kg7 42.Kh2 Kf6 43.Kg3 Kg6 44.Rd4 Rd2? [44...f6 45.Kf3 b3 46.Rb4 h5 47.d4+/=]
45.Rxb4 Rxd3+ 46.Kg4 Rd5 47.Rb6+ Kg7 48.Kh4 Rf5 49.Rb4 Ra5 50.Rb3 Ra4 51.g3 Kg6 52.Rb6+ Kg7 53.Rd6 Ra3 54.f5 Ra5 55.g4 Ra3 56.Rd1 Rb3 57.Rg1 Ra3 58.Rg3 Ra7 59.Rb3 Rc7 60.Kh5 Rc6 61.Rb7 Ra6 62.h4 Rf6 63.Ra7 Kg8 64.Ra5 Rb6 65.g5 hxg5 66.hxg5 Rb1 67.g6 Rh1+ 68.Kg5 Rg1+ 69.Kf6 fxg6 70.Ra8+ Kh7 71.Ra7+ Kg8 72.Rg7+ Kf8 73.Ra7 Kg8 74.Rg7+ Kf8 75.Rxg6 Ra1 76.Rg2 Ra6+ 77.Kg5 Rb6 78.Ra2 Kf7 ½–½