World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski) Explained

Header:World Chess Championship 1910
Comp1:Emanuel Lasker
Comp2:David Janowski
Title1:Defending champion
Title2:Challenger
Flag1:German Empire
Flag2:FRA
Flag2 Variant:1830
Dob1:24 December 1868
Age1:41 years old
Dob2:25 May 1868
Age2:42 years old
Prev:1910
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Next:1921
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From November 8 to December 8, 1910, a World Chess Championship match was played in Berlin between the champion Emanuel Lasker and the challenger David Janowski. It was the second world championship match played in 1910, following Lasker's title defense against Carl Schlechter earlier that year. Lasker successfully defended his title, with the score—Lasker winning 8 games, Janowski winning none, and 3 draws—being the most one-sided in World Chess Championship 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
align=left 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 8
align=left 0 = = 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0

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

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Notes and References

  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. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter38.html#5199._Lasker_v_Janowsky_Paris_1909 Chess Notes 5199