World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski)

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Defending champion Challenger
Emanuel Lasker
David Janowski
German Empire Emanuel Lasker France David Janowski
9½ 1½
Born 24 December 1868
41 years old 		Born 25 May 1868
42 years old
← 1910 1921 →

Emanuel Lasker faced David Janowski in the second 1910 World Chess Championship. The second of two Championship matches played in 1910 was contested from November 8 to December 8, 1910 in Berlin, Lasker successfully defending his title. In terms of the score (8 wins to Lasker, 0 wins to Janowski, 3 draws) it was the most one-sided World Chess Championship match in history.

Background[]

Lasker and Janowski played two exhibition matches in 1909, the first drawn (+2 -2) and the second won convincingly by Lasker (+7 =2 -1). The longer 1909 match has sometimes been called a world championship match,[1] but research by Edward Winter indicates that the title was not at stake.[2]

Results[]

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

World Chess Championship Match Nov-Dec 1910
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Wins Total
 Emanuel Lasker (Germany) 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 8 9½
 David Janowski (France) 0 = = 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 1½

Lasker retained the title in the most one-sided World Championship of all time.

Notes[]

  1. ^ For instance: "From Morphy to Fischer", Israel Horowitz, Batsford 1973, p. 64; "The Centenary Match - Kasparov-Karpov III", Raymond Keene and David Goodman, Batsford 1986
  2. ^ Chess Notes 5199, by Edward Winter

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