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WILLIAM STEINITZ DEAD; Chess Champion of the World Over Twenty Years. DEFEAT BROKE HIS SPIRIT Memorable Tournaments in Which Lasker Lowered His Proud Record -- His Sad Decline ...
It resulted in favor of Lasker by ten games to five, with four draws. BORNE DOWN BY DEFEAT. After this defeat Steinitz seemed to decline. He brooded over the result and could not be reconciled ...
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A GAME FOR LASKER.; Steinitz Declined a Queen's Gambit and Lost.
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STEINITZ LOST HIS CHANGE; Weak Play in the Chess Game with Lasker Caused a Draw.
MONTREAL, May 3. -- W. Steinitz, the champion of the world, and Emanuel Lasker of Berlin, to-day resumed play in the championship chess match for $2,000 a side at the Cosmopolitan Club rooms in ...
The New York Times2y
GOSSIP OF CHESS PLAYERS.; Steinitz Not Playing in His Old-Time Form with Lasker.
The most sanguine and ardent admirers of Lasker did not expect that he would break all records by winning four straights from Steinitz, and the supporters of the champion have now given up all ...
The New York Times1y
LASKER AGAIN DEFEATS STEINITZ; The Berlin Expert Only Needs One More Game to Win the Match.
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GOSSIP OF THE CHESS PLAYERS.; Lasker-Steinitz Match Assured -- Interesting Contests in Brooklyn.
The most important -- in fact, perhaps the only -- feature among chess players the past week was the acceptance of Lasker's terms by Steinitz as regards the amount of stakes in the forthcoming ...
The New York Times1y
GOSSIP OF THE CHESS PLAYERS.; Steinitz-Lasker Games of High Order -- Ettlinger Defeated by Vasquez.
The first series of the great chess match between W. Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker is over, and it is generally admitted all around that the games played in this contest have been of a very high order.
The New York Times11mon
THE CHESS TOURNAMENT.; Pillsbury Defeats Steinitz -- Lasker Still in Lead
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LASKER DEFEATED AT LAST.; SHIPLEY WINS A STEINITZ GAMBIT FROM THE GERMAN MASTER.
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The Pioneer2y
Lasker — a champion who was ahead of his time
Lasker became the world champion for the first time by defeating the strategist Wilhelm Steinitz, also known as 'Austrian Morphy'. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions ...
Time1mon
German Veteran
Emanuel Lasker, before his defeat by Capablanca, had held the championship for nearly 30 years. He alone links the names of Steinitz, Tschigorin, Pillsbury to the present. After studying in ...
The New York Times3mon
A DRAWN GAME.; THE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH BETWEEN ZUKERTORT AND STEINITZ.
NEW-ORLEANS, La., March 15.--The fifteenth game of chess for the world's championship between Zukertort and Steinitz and the sixth game of the series in this city came off this afternoon at the ...