Talk:Edward Lasker

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Was Edward Lasker related to Emanuel Lasker or not? Saying "He was distantly related to...but had no biological relationship with" doesn't make a lot of sense. Can someome provide a source that will show they were related? --Malathion 09:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edward Lasker

I know that I read in one of Edward Lasker's books (The Adventure of Chess?) that someone had showed him a family tree indicating that he and Emanuel Lasker were distantly related. Krakatoa

From Edward Lasker's memoirs of the great 1924 New York tournament, published in the March 1974 Chess Life: "I did not discover that we were actually related until he (Emanuel Lasker) told me shortly before his death that someone had shown him a Lasker family tree on one of whose branches I was dangling." Somehow this report has gone unnoticed in a number of Lasker biographies. I've (lightly) edited the Edward Lasker page.

Bill-on-the-Hill 13:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Glad to see that someone tracked that down. Thanks. Krakatoa 20:40, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] nice one. :)

"He was born in Breslau, then in Germany, and now in Poland."