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The defending champion is the great Emanuel Lasker, now defending his crown for the third time. The chess world is abuzz with excitement, as everyone is certain Lasker has finally met his match. He has gone from strength to strength since snatching the title from Wilhelm Steinitz, demolishing Steinitz in their return match , and Frank Marshall in his first two title defenses.

This time, however, he is facing Siegbert Tarrasch, and even Lasker himself can scarce imagine a lopsided result. Tarrasch earned his title shot by winning Ostende , but he has been a formidable force since the late s.

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He, not Lasker, was once considered the logical successor of Steinitz, and he had waited long for this this chance to fulfill that promise. Arranging the match had been long and arduous, for while Lasker and Tarrasch are both Germans, they cannot brook their differences. A similar attempt to bring them to the table in had all failed. Now, as the match is finally about to unfold, the organizers have called them to bury the hatchet.

Even a world championship match, after all, is only a sporting event. Tarrasch has been said to click his heels and quip before leaving promptly: "To you, Herr Lasker, I have just three words to say: check and mate. This story about Tarrasch reflects much of what we know about him today.

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He was an incredibly strong player who was ripe for the world championship for close to two decades. He, too, was a man of ideas, one of the most influential, in fact, in the long history of chess. He stood obstinately for what truths he saw on the board, and made no compromises about them that he has been branded "dogmatic. Tarrasch was born in Breslau, in what is now Poland.