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...Mauretania (Cunard)?Dr. Emanuel Lasker, German chess champion; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Woolworth (son of the Ten Cent Store President...
...Lasker, United States...
...every game won, a player scored 1 point, for every game drawn � point. Thus Dr. Lasker scored 16, and Capablanca 14?...
Prize money went: to Dr. Lasker, $1,500; to Capablanca, $1,000; to Alekhinc, $750; to Marshall, $500; to Reti, $300. But everybody got a prize. Among the innumerable special awards was a silver cup from W. M. Vance of Princeton and $75 in gold from Albert H. Loeb of Chicago, to Reti for his game against Bogolju-bow, deemed the most brilliant game of them all. Loud were the patriotic plaudits that American Marshall should do so well, and to him was given the second brilliancy prize?also for a game against Bogoljubow. Bogoljubow, the so brilliantly defeated...
...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 Prussian schools and winning a Doctorate of Mathematics at Heidelberg (see Education, this issue), he took up chess professionally...