Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Cham ...
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David Janowski
Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish-born French chess player. The Janowski variations of the Old Indian Defense and of the Queen's Gambit Declined are named after him.
Biography
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in the second 1910
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who has held the title since 2013.
The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...
. The second of two Championship matches played in 1910 was contested 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, 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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