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Frank Marshall challenged Emanuel Lasker for the title in 1907, in a tournament played within several U.S. cities. This image comes from Chicago, Illinois.
January 13 1907
The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, January 13, 1907 ★
Dr. Emanuel Lasker — Dr. Emanuel Lasker, chess champion of the world.
Dr. Lasker's Task. — Will Have to Defeat Marshall for the Chess Championship in Philadelphia Soon.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker is to meet Robert Marshall in a series of championship chess matches in Philadelphia soon. Dr. Lasker is the present world's champion, and has defeated most every one of any consequence. In Marshall he meets a worthy opponent, and some believe the challenger will win. Dr. R. B. Griffiths of Los Angeles once played Dr. Lasker in San Francisco, making a draw of the game.
June 05 1907
The Topeka State Journal Topeka, Kansas Wednesday, June 05, 1907
Lasker Is Coming — Chess Champion of the World Will Be Here June 13.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker, chess champion of the world, will be in the city next week as the guest of the chess club of the Y.M.C.A., and Thursday evening, June 13, will deliver a lecture in the Y.M.C.A. building and meet all who desire to play chess. He will not devote all of his attention to any single player but will play from ten to one hundred games simultaneously.
Dr. Lasker made his appearance in Topeka the last day in January, 1906, remaining until the 3d of February during the Kansas Chess tournament and met all comers. During this visit to the city he played 24 games simultaneously as well as numerous individual games, winning every game played singly and either drew or defeated all of the contestants in the simultaneous match excepting W. W. Harvey.
This match lasted for several hours and on the seventy-fourth move was decided in favor of Mr. Harvey. The contest was not confined to local players but the devotees of the game from over the state were in the city contesting for the state championship which fell to Major A. M. Harvey.
Since his appearance in this city Dr. Lasker has met a number of the best chess players in the world, defeating all of them with ease. He accepted a challenge from Frank Marshall, one of the best known chess experts, for the championship of the world and a purse of $2,000 and defeated him with ease without the loss of a single game.
The approaching visit of the world's champion to the city has aroused considerable interest in the game and there will be a number of chess enthusiasts from over the state in the city to enter the list of players who will enter the simultaneous contest. During the past year a number of chess experts have been developed from the membership of the Y.M.C.A. and they are particularly anxious to meet Dr. Lasker.
An invitation has been sent to Mr. Harvey, who now lives at Ashland, and it is probable that he will come to Topeka for another series of games with Dr. Lasker.
August 01 1907
The Spanish Fork Press Spanish Fork, Utah Thursday, August 01, 1907
Great Chess Master — Emanuel Lasker, Peer Of Present-Day Players. — His Aim Is to Make Game Most Popular of Indoor Pastimes — Is an Exponent of the Simple Life.
New Orleans.—Emanuel Lasker, the chess champion of the world, is a genius.
There is more truth than poetry in this deduction of the man who is recognized throughout the civilized world as the peer of all the masters of the present day, and yet withal a plain, every-day German-American, who is an exponent of the simple life, quiet, retiring, yet cheerful and affable at all times. And yet withal he is a student, one who still carefully pursues the study of mathematics in all its branches, who is a strategist as well as a tactician, which is the solution of the problem of his being the master of masters of the present day in the art of chess-playing.
Emanuel Lasker has an aim and purpose as the champion chess player of the world, and that aim and purpose is to make the game not only as popular as it used to be in the time of Paul Morphy, but the great national indoor game of America, contending that on account of its cleanness and its wholesomeness it is entitled to such recognition. To this end he has not only edited for the past three years Lasker's Chess Magazine, a national organ devoted to chess, but also edits weekly the chess column for two widely read papers.
Love of mathematics was the cornerstone of his success as a chess player. A close student of mathematics since he mastered the rule of three, he has taught mathematics and received his degree of doctor of philosophy at Erlangen, Bavaria, though like Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and others, he prefers to be known as Emanuel Lasker, the world over, regardless of titles and degrees that have been conferred upon him. He was born in Germany in 1868 and has been a devotee of the chess game since he was 12 years of age, 18 years of which he has spent in mastering the game, and for 13 years of this time has been recognized as the chess champion of the world.
In following the simple life Emanuel Lasker drinks a good deal of water, for the simple reason he has discovered water has a good taste and is a healthy drink. Smoking is perhaps the only habit that he has that borders on intemperance, for he is an abstainer as far as alcoholic stimulants is concerned. He enjoys a good cigar, and, according to his own figures, he usually smokes six cigars a day, sometimes more, but never less than this number.
In habits and dress, like many another genius, Emanuel Lasker is exceedingly careless. Clothes are not an important factor in his every-day life, and he prefers a soft shirt with a turn-down collar attached to any-thing in the starched variety. His wealth of black, curly hair is usually unkempt, for while in repose he has a habit of running his hands through it. His luxuriant mustache is conspicuous by the absence of any of the wax or grease used in the modern tonsorial parlor. His dark eyes are keen and penetrating, and his head under the wealth of curly black hair is worth more than a passing glance.
To see him seated at the chess table one would take him for an ordinary man, one who was simply playing for pastime, instead of having mastered the game. His own deductions of how he defeated F. J. Marshall recently are indeed interesting.
“F. J. Marshall recently challenged me for the world's championship and I readily assented to meet him in a series of eight games,” said Mr. Lasker. “I won all eight games because I outplayed him. I outmaneuvered him in strategy, and, although he is a fine tactician, he never had sufficient tactics at any stage of any game to win.”
