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Emanuel Lasker showed complete superiority in
winning the 1896 Nuremberg chess tournament. Nineteen
rounds were played over the course of twenty days (July
20th - August 9th), with a time control of thirty moves
in two hours in the morning and resumption in the
afternoon with a time limit of fifteen moves per hour
and continued until the end.
The main prizes went to Lasker (3000 M),
Geza Maróczy (2000 M), Siegbert Tarrasch and
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (each 1250 M), David Janowsky (600 M),
Wilhelm Steinitz (300
M), Carl Walbrodt and Carl Schlechter (each 100 M).
The tournament should have become a German Chess
Congress, but the local chess club took over the
organization and included no minor groups. Thirty-nine
players wanted to participate in the master competition,
nineteen were allowed.
Tarrasch,
who underestimated the importance of tactics,
regarded five games won by Lasker as "lucky". Later Lasker
was characterized as a "psychologist", who made errors
in order to confuse the opponent. |
