Chess Trivia chess trivia Without Googling, can you name which World Champion was born on December 24? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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Susan, happy birthday!
Emmanuel Lasker was my first guess (just thought I remembered it- in 1868- he is a favourite of mine- I consider him one of the two greatest players ever)
No, I cannot 🙂
Who also won the World Chess Champion Title on the 24 th December?
No googling.
(“Who also won the World Chess Champion Title on the 24 th December?”)
I should have posted it as:
Who won the World Chess Champion Title on the 24th December
Chess masters born Dec. 24th:
Emmanuel Lasker
Richard Teichmann
Irina Krush
Tomas Oral
Happy 140th birthday to the player who was on top for the longest!