World Chess Championship 1910
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker
David Janowski
David Janowski
  German Empire Emanuel Lasker France David Janowski
 
Scores
  Born 24 December 1868
41 years old
Born 25 May 1868
42 years old

Emanuel Lasker faced David Janowski in the second 1910 World Chess Championship. 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,[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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