From November 8 to December 8, 1910, a
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship 2024, 2024 World Chess Championship. ...
match was played in Berlin between the champion
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially ...
and the challenger
David Janowski. It was the second world championship match played in 1910, following
Lasker's title defense against
Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.
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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, but research by
Edward Winter indicates that the title was not at stake.
Chess Notes 5199
by Edward Winter
Results
The first player to win eight games would be World Champion.
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Lasker retained the title in the most one-sided World Championship of all time.
Notes
External links
1910 World Chess Championship
at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages
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