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
1234567891011WinsTotal
 Emanuel Lasker (Germany) 1==11=111118
 David Janowski (France) 0==00=000000

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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