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Emanuel LaskerEmanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...
faced David Janowski in the second
1910 World Chess ChampionshipThe World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
. It was played from November 8 to December 8, 1910 in Berlin, Lasker successfully defending his title.
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
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indicates that the title was not at stake.
Results
The first player to win eight games would be World Champion.
World Chess Championship Match 1910
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1 |
1 |
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8 |
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0 |
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Lasker retained the title in the most one-sided World Championship of all time.
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