Tournament Results
The following table gives Lasker's placings and scores in tournaments. The first "Score" column gives the number of points on the total possible. In the second "Score" column, "+" indicates the number of won games, "−" the number of losses, and "=" the number of draws.
| Date | Location | Place | Score | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89 | Berlin (Café Kaiserhof) | 1st | 20/20 | +20 −0 =0 | |
| 1889 | Breslau "B" | 1st = | 12/15 | +11 −2 =2 | Tied with von Feyerfeil and won the play-off. This was Hauptturnier A of the sixth DSB Congress, i.e. the "second-division" tournament. |
| 1889 | Amsterdam "A" tournament | 2nd | 6/8 | +5 −1 =2 | Behind Amos Burn; ahead of James Mason, Isidor Gunsberg and others. This was the stronger of the two Amsterdam tournaments held at that time. |
| 1890 | Berlin | 1–2 | 6½/8 | +6 −1 =1 | Tied with his brother Berthold Lasker. |
| 1890 | Graz | 3rd | 4/6 | +3 −1 =2 | Behind Gyula Makovetz and Johann Hermann Bauer. |
| 1892 | London | 1st | 9/11 | +8 −1 =2 | Ahead of Mason and Rudolf Loman. |
| 1892 | London | 1st | 6½/8 | +5 −0 =3 | Ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne, Mason, Gunsberg and Henry Edward Bird. |
| 1893 | New York City | 1st | 13/13 | +13 −0 =0 | Ahead of Adolf Albin, Jackson Showalter and a newcomer called Harry Nelson Pillsbury. |
| 1895 | Hastings | 3rd | 15½/21 | +14 −4 =3 | Behind Pillsbury and Mikhail Chigorin; ahead of Siegbert Tarrasch, Wilhelm Steinitz and the rest of a strong field. |
| 1895/96 | St. Petersburg | 1st | 11½/18 | +8 −3 =7 | A Quadrangular tournament; ahead of Steinitz (by two points), Pillsbury and Chigorin. |
| 1896 | Nuremberg | 1st | 13½/18 | +12 −3 =3 | Ahead of Géza Maróczy, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Dawid Janowski, Steinitz and the rest of a strong field. |
| 1899 | London | 1st | 23½/28 | +20 −1 =7 | Ahead of Janowski, Pillsbury, Maróczy, Carl Schlechter, Blackburne, Chigorin and several other strong players. |
| 1900 | Paris | 1st | 14½/16 | +14 −1 =1 | Ahead of Pillsbury (by two points), Frank James Marshall, Maróczy, Burn, Chigorin and several others. |
| 1904 | Cambridge Springs | 2nd = | 11/15 | +9 −2 =4 | Tied with Janowski; two points behind Marshall; ahead of Georg Marco, Showalter, Schlechter, Chigorin, Jacques Mieses, Pillsbury and others. |
| 1906 | Trenton Falls | 1st | 5/6 | +4 −0 =2 | A Quadrangular tournament; ahead of Curt, Albert Fox and Raubitschek. |
| 1909 | St. Petersburg | 1st = | 14½/18 | +13 −2 =3 | Tied with Akiba Rubinstein; ahead of Oldřich Duras and Rudolf Spielmann (by 3½ points), Ossip Bernstein, Richard Teichmann and several other strong players. |
| 1914 | St. Petersburg | 1st | 13½/18 | +10 −1 =7 | Ahead of José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall. This tournament had an unusual structure: there was a preliminary tournament in which eleven players played each other player once; the top five players then played a separate final tournament in which each player who made the "cut" played the other finalists twice; but their scores from the preliminary tournament were carried forward. Even the preliminary tournament would now be considered a "super-tournament". Capablanca "won" the preliminary tournament by 1½ points without losing a game, but Lasker achieved a plus score against all his opponents in the final tournament and finished with a combined score ½ point ahead of Capablanca's. |
| 1918 | Berlin | 1st | 4½/6 | +3 −0 =3 | Quadrangular tournament. Ahead of Rubinstein, Schlechter and Tarrasch. |
| 1923 | Moravská Ostrava | 1st | 10½/13 | +8 −0 =5 | Ahead of Richard Réti, Ernst Grünfeld, Alexey Selezniev, Savielly Tartakower, Max Euwe and other strong players. |
| 1924 | New York City | 1st | 16/20 | +13 −1 =6 | Ahead of Capablanca (by 1½ points), Alekhine, Marshall, and the rest of a very strong field. |
| 1925 | Moscow | 2nd | 14/20 | +10 −2 =8 | Behind Efim Bogoljubow; ahead of Capablanca, Marshall, Tartakower, Carlos Torre, other strong non-Soviet players and the leading Soviet players. |
| 1934 | Zürich | 5th | 10/15 | +9 −4 =2 | Behind Alekhine, Euwe, Salo Flohr and Bogoljubow; ahead of Bernstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Gideon Stahlberg and various others. |
| 1935 | Moscow | 3rd | 12½/19 | +6 −0 =13 | half a point behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Flohr; ahead of Capablanca, Spielmann, Ilya Kan, Grigory Levenfish, Andor Lilienthal, Viacheslav Ragozin and others. Emanuel Lasker was about 67 years old at the time. |
| 1936 | Moscow | 6th | 8/18 | +3 −5 =10 | Capablanca won. |
| 1936 | Nottingham | 7–8th | 8½/14 | +6 −3 =5 | Capablanca and Botvinnik tied for first place. |
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