Champion Emanuel Lasker was a Christmas season gift to the c

It technically came a day early, but the chess world was given a wonderful Christmas present 150 years ago on Dec. 24, 1868, with the birth of Emanuel Lasker in the German (now Polish) town of Berlinchen.

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