World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker-Janowski)
World Chess Championship 1910 may refer to: *World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter) *World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Janowski) Emanuel Lasker faced David Janowski 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 ...

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, bu ...
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