AJanuary 12 1941
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunday, January 12, 1941
Emanuel Lasker, Chess Expert, Dies
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (A. P.).—Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, world famous chess expert and writer on chess subjects, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital today of uremic poisoning.
Dr. Lasker won the world's chess championship in 1894 and held it until 1921 when he lost to Jose R. Capablanca who in 1927 lost to Alexander A. Alekhine, the present champion.
Dr. Lasker resided in New York from 1902 to 1907 during which time he published Lasker's Chess Magazine and edited a chess column in the New York Evening Post.
