Berthold Lasker
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Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
master.
Born Jonathan Berthold Lasker, he was married to the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler was a Jewish German poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.-Biography:Schüler was born in...
and was an elder brother of Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...
.
He spent most of his life in Berlin, where he played in local tournaments.
In 1881 he shared 1st with Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....
, and took 2nd, behind Curt von Bardeleben
Curt von Bardeleben
Curt von Bardeleben was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, which was made into the movie The Luzhin Defence...
, there. In 1883, he tied for 1st-4th and took 4th (playoff) - Hermann von Gottschall
Hermann von Gottschall
Hermann von Gottschall was a German chess master, son of the poet Rudolf Gottschall who was also a noted chess player....
won. In 1887, he tied for 5-6th (Max Harmonist
Max Harmonist
Max Harmonist was a leading German chess master. He was probably the only famous chess player to have been by profession a ballet dancer. He often performed in the royal ballet....
won).
His best achievement was a tie for 1st place with his brother Emanuel Lasker at Berlin 1890. He took 2nd, behind Horatio Caro
Horatio Caro
Horatio Caro was an English chess master.Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben , lost to Szymon Winawer . In 1897, he lost to Jacques Mieses . In 1903, he drew...
, at Berlin 1891. He took 10th at Berlin 1898/99 (Theodor von Scheve
Theodor von Scheve
Theodor von Scheve was a German chess master and writer.Scheve was born in Cosel in the Prussian Province of Silesia....
, Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp was a German chess player and author. He became head of the shorthand department of the Reichstag. He wrote many books, including one on the Steinitz–Zukertort 1886 World Championship match...
and Caro won).
In 1902 Lasker won the New York State championship.
He and his brother Emanuel wrote a drama called "Days of Mankind". It contained deep philosophical symbolism, and the theme was "redemption for rationalists and rigid logic truth through the emotional powers of mysticism."