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Play Like Emanuel Lasker

Play Like Emanuel Lasker

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Find the moves of the best games of the longest reigning World Champion!

Emanuel Lasker was the 2nd world champion and reigned for a record 27 years between 1894 and 1921. Find out how he did it by figuring out the moves of five of his greatest games. Start playing like Lasker today!

Here is what you will learn:

  • Find an opening knockout in the Caro-Kann!
  • Take down Tarrasch!
  • Find an amazing double-bishop sacrifice against Bauer!

Play Like Emanuel Lasker: Lasker vs Bauer

One of Lasker's most famous wins was played before his time as World Champion against Austrian Master Johann Hermann Bauer. Lasker sacrificed both bishops.
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Play Like Emanuel Lasker: Lasker vs Raadsheer

Raadsheer was a psuedonym used frequently by the Dutch chess player Boudewijn Johannes van Trotsenburg. Lasker faced him in a simul in 1908,
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Play Like Emanuel Lasker: Lasker vs Pirc

Vasja Pirc was a top Yugoslavian Grandmaster and one of the originators of the defense that bears his name.
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Play Like Emanuel Lasker: Lasker vs Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest players of the late 19th and early 20th century, but Lasker beat him convincingly in two matches.
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Play Like Emanuel Lasker: Lasker vs Delmonte

In 1906 Lasker played a simul against many Cuban opponents including the player Enrique Delmonte. Lasker won with a stunning queen sacrifice and a quick checkmate.
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Play Like Emanuel Lasker

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5 Lessons
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5 Challenges
Released 5/4/2020

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