ADecember 24 1906
This Is My 38th Birthday 24 Dec 1906, Mon The Charlotte News (Charlotte, North Carolina) Newspapers.com
'THIS IS MY 38TH BIRTHDAY.'
Emanuel Lasker.
Emanuel Lasker, the recognized champion chess player of the world, was born in Berlin, December 24, 1868. As a mere boy he was greater at chess than most great players and early learned to calculate results far ahead of the game. His boyhood education was received in the gymnasium at Landsberg, and he later studied mathematics, in its higher branches, at Berlin and at Heidelberg. At the age of 12 Lasker first became aware of his genius for chess. His first tutor in the game was his brother, whom he readily outstripped. In 1889 he entered the Haupt-Turnier at Breslau and surprised his friends and competitors by carrying off all the honors. Since that time he has been the admitted master of the science. In 1895 he scored a great triumph at St. Petersburg, in which he defeated Steinitz, Pillsbury and Tschigorin. The following year at Noremberg he met and defeated the greatest players of the world. Early in the coming year he is to try his skill against that of Frank Marshall, of Brooklyn, who is admittedly the foremost American expert at the game since the death of Pillsbury.
