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Edward Lasker

1885 - 1981

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Edward Lasker (born Eduard Lasker) (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author of books on Go, chess and checkers. Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United States in 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Lasker has received more than 171,597 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Edward Lasker is the 72nd most popular chess player (up from 97th in 2019), the 677th most popular biography from Poland (up from 764th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Edward Lasker ranks 72 out of 461. Before him are Szymon Winawer, Semyon Alapin, Isaac Boleslavsky, Michael Adams, Vlastimil Hort, and Louis Paulsen. After him are Pal Benko, Philipp Stamma, Lev Polugaevsky, Adolf Albin, Isidor Gunsberg, and Maia Chiburdanidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Edward Lasker ranks 122. Before him are François de La Rocque, Rolf Carls, Friedrich Kirchner, John Curtin, Liviu Rebreanu, and Ethel Muckelt. After him are Abdurauf Fitrat, Charles Dullin, Antonio Bacci, Georges Mandel, Muslim Magomayev, and Ruben Sevak. Among people deceased in 1981, Edward Lasker ranks 108. Before him are Mariama Bâ, Hermann Esser, Bobby Sands, Norman Taurog, Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, and Walter Heitler. After him are Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Ricardo Wolf, Julio Libonatti, Agniya Barto, Zoilo Saldombide, and Lyudmila Zhivkova.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Edward Lasker ranks 677 out of 1,694. Before him are Mykhailo Verbytskyi (1815), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), Günther Pancke (1899), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Robert Kubica (1984), and Hermann Rauschning (1887). After him are Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Moritz Pasch (1843), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), and Otto Finsch (1839).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Edward Lasker ranks 9. Before him are Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), and Szymon Winawer (1838). After him are Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Valery Salov (1964), Monika Soćko (1978), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (1998), and Radosław Wojtaszek (1987).

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