World Chess Championship 1908

Defending champion	Challenger
Emanuel Lasker	Siegbert Tarrasch
10½	5½
Born 24 December 1868 39 years old	Born 5 March 1862 46 years old
← 1907	1910 →

Emanuel Lasker faced Siegbert Tarrasch in the 1908 World Chess Championship. It was played from August 17 to September 30, 1908 in Düsseldorf and Munich, Lasker successfully defending his title.

Results[]

The first player to win eight games would be the World Champion.

World Chess Championship Match 1908

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Wins	Total
Emanuel Lasker (Germany)	1	1	0	1	1	=	1	=	=	0	1	0	1	=	=	1	8	10½
Siegbert Tarrasch (Germany)	0	0	1	0	0	=	0	=	=	1	0	1	0	=	=	0	3	5½

Lasker retained his title.

Game 14, which lasted for 119 moves,^[1] held the record for the longest game in a world championship until Game 5 of the 1978 championship, which lasted 124 moves.

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