Emanuel Lasker, world chess champion for 27 years

[curupira]

Emanuel Lasker, PhD (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921). In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever.

Lasker made contributions to the development of other games. He was a first-class contract bridge player and wrote about bridge and other games, including Go and his own invention, Lasca. His books about games presented a problem that is still considered notable in the mathematical analysis of card games. Lasker was also a research mathematician who was known for his contributions to commutative algebra, which included proving the primary decomposition of the ideals of polynomial rings. On the other hand, his philosophical works and a drama that he co-authored received little attention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker

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[Anglojew]

Alpine-Armenoid

[Smeagol]

Alpine + Armenoid. Jewish.

[Roy]

Alpinoid + Armenoid.

[curupira]

He was Jewish on both sides of his family:


Lasker war der jüngste Sohn des jüdischen Kantors Adolf Lasker und dessen Ehefrau Rosalie Israelssohn.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker

^ Lasker was the youngest son of the Jewish cantor Adolf Lasker and his wife Rosalie Israelssohn.

[Smeagol]

Jews make the best chess players.

[tato]

Agree Armenoid with some alpine.

Spaniards and their descendiente are so good in chess too. Capablanca bested in Lasker.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54111

[curupira]

Lasker was a good friend of Albert Einstein, who wrote the introduction to the posthumous biography Emanuel Lasker, The Life of a Chess Master from Dr. Jacques Hannak (1952).[137] In this preface Einstein express his satisfaction at having met Lasker, writing:

'Emanuel Lasker was undoubtedly one of the most interesting people I came to know in my later years. We must be thankful to those who have penned the story of his life for this and succeeding generations. For there are few men who have had a warm interest in all the great human problems and at the same time kept their personality so uniquely independent' ".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker


Despite his superb playing results, chess was not Lasker's only interest. His parents recognized his intellectual talents, especially for mathematics, and sent the adolescent Emanuel to study in Berlin (where he found he also had a talent for chess). Lasker gained his abitur (high school graduation certificate) at Landsberg an der Warthe, now a Polish town named Gorzów Wielkopolski but then part of Prussia. He then studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg.

In 1895 Lasker published two mathematical articles in Nature. On the advice of David Hilbert he registered for doctoral studies at Erlangen during 1900–02. In 1901 he presented his doctoral thesis Über Reihen auf der Convergenzgrenze ("On Series at Convergence Boundaries") at Erlangen and in the same year it was published by the Royal Society. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics in 1902. His most significant mathematical article, in 1905, published a theorem of which Emmy Noether developed a more generalized form, which is now regarded as of fundamental importance to modern algebra and algebraic geometry.

Lasker held short-term positions as a mathematics lecturer at Tulane University in New Orleans (1893) and Victoria University in Manchester (1901; Victoria University was one of the "parents" of the current University of Manchester).[62] However, he was unable to secure a longer-term position, and pursued his scholarly interests independently.

In 1906 Lasker published a booklet titled Kampf (Struggle),[68] in which he attempted to create a general theory of all competitive activities, including chess, business and war. He produced two other books which are generally categorized as philosophy, Das Begreifen der Welt (Comprehending the World; 1913) and Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar (sic; The Philosophy of the Unattainable; 1918).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker

Other pics of him:

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[Cristiano viejo]

Agree Armenoid with some alpine.
So is a pure askenazi, then... :twitch00:

Spaniards and their descendiente are so good in chess too. Capablanca bested in Lasker.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54111

True, the Spaniard Raúl Capablanca defeated him for the World Championship in 1921 without mercy and without losing any game.

Lasker? I would not include even among the best chess players ever. His 27 years as champion, does not have the value that reveal the numbers, for the following: he win title in 1894, giving the rematch in 1896. Then, he already did not puts it in play until 1907 (11 years without exposing it) and three times more between 1908-1910, for lose it in 1921 (another 11 years of waiting) against Raúl Capablanca. That is, removing the rematch against Steinitz, 4 defenders successfully for the title between 1907-1910 and against opponents chosen :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Kess]

he is quite dolicho for an Armenoid

Armenoid+ something dolichocephalic

[Columella]

Squat faced Alpine/Armenoid.