World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski)
Emanuel Lasker faced David Janowski in the second 1910 World Chess Championship. It was played 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Chess Notes 5199, by Edward Winter
External links
- 1910 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages