New York 1924

New York 1924 brought eleven elite players together from March 16 to April 18. It used a double round-robin format: every pair met twice, normally once with each color. Each competitor therefore played twenty games, and the event produced 110 games in total.

Emanuel Lasker won with 16 points from 20 games. José Raúl Capablanca finished second on 14.5, and Alexander Alekhine was third on 12. The presence of three world champions from different stages of chess history, together with Lasker's late-career victory, accounts for much of the tournament's prestige.

Alekhine later produced a widely studied tournament book. Such a book preserves the games and adds comments on decisions, alternatives, and critical moments, recording much more than the final standings. New York 1924 consequently became a lasting source for studying its era and an immediate predecessor to Moscow 1925.

Both Emanuel Lasker and Edward Lasker played in the event. They shared a surname but were different people: Emanuel was a former world champion, while Edward was a strong German-born master based in the United States.