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Emanuel Lasker

German chess player (1868–1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion, winning 6 World Chess Championships. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions.

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“Emanuel Lasker” enters the record as german chess player (1868–1941). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Emanuel, Lasker and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1894, 1921—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Emanuel, Lasker and German.
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“Emanuel Lasker” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Emanuel, Lasker and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1894 and 1921.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emanuel Lasker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.