List of people who have beaten Emanuel Lasker in chess

The following people have beaten Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...

(December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) in a regular game of chess – not a game played at odds. He was considered to be one of the best players in history (Comparing top chess players throughout history).

Tournament and match play

Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

, 1 loss: Zürich 1934

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...

, 2 losses: Berlin 1889 (match +1 –2 =1), Hastings 1895

Ossip Bernstein
Ossip Bernstein
Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...

, 2 losses: Moscow 1914 (exhibition match +1 –1 =0), St. Petersburg 1914

Henry Edward Bird, 3 losses: Liverpool 1890 (match +2 –7 =3), London 1892

Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne , nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years...

, 2 losses: Hastings 1895, London 1899

Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

, 1 loss: Zürich 1934

Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...

, 1 loss: Moscow 1936

José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...

, 6 losses: World Championship Match Havana 1921 (match +4 –0 =10), New York 1924, Moscow 1936

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...

, 1 loss: Berlin 1890

Rudolf Charousek, 1 loss: Nuremberg 1896

Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...

, 1 loss: Hastings 1895

Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
Fedor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Ukrainian chess master....

, 1 loss: St. Petersburg 1909

J. von Feyerfeil, 1 loss: Breslau 1889

Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...

, 1 loss: Nottingham 1936

Salo Flohr
Salo Flohr
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

, 2 losses: Moscow 1936, Nottingham 1936

Albert Hodges
Albert Hodges
Albert Beauregard Hodges was an American chess master.-Chess career:As one of the most well known American chess players of the late 19th century, Hodges played an important role in transforming chess from a pleasant pastime into a social institution.In 1894 he lost a match to Jackson Whipps...

, 1 loss: New York 1892 (match +1-2=0)

Dawid Janowski
Dawid Janowski
Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....

, 4 losses: Nuremberg 1896, Paris 1909 (match +2 –2 =0), Paris 1909 (match +1 –7 =2)

Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...

, 1 loss: Moscow 1925

Andor Lilienthal
Andor Lilienthal
Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

, 1 loss: Moscow 1936

Gyula Makovetz
Gyula Makovetz
Gyula Makovetz was a Hungarian journalist and chess player.He edited the chess magazine Budapesti Sakkszemle from 1889 to 1894. Makovetz was 1st, ahead of Johann Hermann Bauer and Emanuel Lasker, at Graz 1890...

, 1 loss: Graz 1890

Frank James Marshall, 2 losses: Paris 1900, New York 1940 (exhibition match +1 –0 =1)

John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon is an American folk music singer and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and...

, 1 loss: correspondence match 1904 (+1-1=0)

Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...

, 1 loss: Zürich 1934

Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury , was a leading chess player. At age 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time , but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.- Early life :Pillsbury was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, moved to New York City...

, 4 losses: 2 at St. Petersburg 1895/96, Nuremberg 1896, Cambridge Springs 1904

Viacheslav Ragozin
Viacheslav Ragozin
Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and editor.- Biography :...

, 1 loss: Moscow 1936

Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

, 1 loss: Nottingham 1936

Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...

, 1 loss: St. Petersburg 1909

Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...

, 2 losses: Cambridge Springs 1904, Vienna–Berlin 1910 (match +1 –1 =8)

Walter Penn Shipley, 1 loss: Philadelphia 1892 (match +1-1=0)

Jackson Showalter
Jackson Showalter
Jackson Whipps Showalter was a five-time U.S. Chess Champion: 1890, 1892, 1892–1894, 1895-1896 and 1906–1909.-Chess career:...

, 2 losses: Logansport–Kokomo 1892/93 (match +2 –6 =1)

Albert Simonson
Albert Simonson
Albert Simonson was an American chess master. He was one of the strongest American players of the 1930s, and was part of the American team which won the gold medals at the 1933 Chess Olympiad...

, 1 loss: Manhattan 1892 (match +1-2=0)

Gideon Ståhlberg
Gideon Ståhlberg
Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg was a Swedish chess grandmaster.He won the Swedish Chess Championship of 1927, became Nordic champion in 1929, and held it until 1939....

, 1 loss: Zürich 1934

Steif, A., 1 loss: Breslau 1889

Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...

, 8 losses: New York–Philadelphia–Montreal 1894 (match +5 –10 =4), St. Petersburg 1895/96, Moscow 1896/97 (match +2 –10 =5)

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....

, 4 losses: Hastings 1895, Düsseldorf–Munich 1908 (match +3 –8 =5)

Carlos Torre Repetto
Carlos Torre Repetto
Carlos Torre Repetto was a chess grandmaster from Mexico.Torre won the Louisiana championship at New Orleans 1923. He was first at Detroit 1924, followed by Samuel Factor, Herman H. Hahlbohm, Norman Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, etc., and at Rochester 1924...

, 1 loss: Moscow 1925

Louis van Vliet
Louis van Vliet
Louis van Vliet was a Dutch chess master.He took 4th at Amsterdam 1889 , 6-8th at London 1889 , took 19th at Manchester 1890 , took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at London 1891, took 10th at London 1891 , took 9th at London 1892 ,...

, 1 loss: Amsterdam 1889

Tournament and match play

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