World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker-Janowski)
World Chess Championship 1910 may refer to: *World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter) Emanuel Lasker faced Carl Schlechter in the 1910 World Chess Championship. It was played from January 7 to February 10, 1910, in Vienna and Berlin. The match was tied and Lasker retained his title. Match conditions Was it a championship match? Th ... * World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski) {{Disambiguation ...
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World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter)
Emanuel Lasker faced Carl Schlechter in the 1910 World Chess Championship. It was played from January 7 to February 10, 1910, in Vienna and Berlin. The match was tied and Lasker retained his title. Match conditions Was it a championship match? The match is generally regarded as a World Championship match, but some sources have doubted this in view of its strange outcome. R.J. Buckley reported in the American Chess Bulletin that the ten-game match was not for the World Championship, and that its result suggested that "a contest on different terms, a match for the World Championship" should be played. But at the foot of this article the editor added that Lasker had told him, "Yes, I placed the title at stake". In the ''Encyclopaedia of Chess'', Anne Sunnucks describes the match as "a so-called championship match". On the other hand, in his book ''Le guide des échecs'' the chess author Nicolas Giffard does not express the slightest doubt that this was a chess championship match, b ...
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