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Tassilo Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa 17 October 1818 Berlin – 27 July 1899 Storchnest near Lissa Greater Poland then German Empire) was an important German chess master chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).His name is usually abbreviated as von der Lasa as this is how he signed his letters.