Which world champion did Capablanca defeat to become the world champion?
Wilhelm Steinitz
Emanuel Lasker
Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov
Answer
The world championship title was held by Emanuel Lasker, a German chess prodigy, for an impressive 27 years. In 1921, José Raúl Capablanca, a Cuban chess master renowned for his exceptional positional play and known as the "Chess Machine," challenged Lasker for the title.
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