World Chess Championship 1894
Template:Short description Template:Infobox chess match The fifth World Chess Championship was held in New York City (games 1–8), Philadelphia (games 9–11), and Montreal (games 12–19), and was contested from 15 March to 26 May 1894. Holder William Steinitz lost his title to challenger Emanuel Lasker, who was 32 years his junior.
Buildup
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Reigning World Champion Steinitz publicly spoke of retiring; Lasker challenged him, and he changed his mind.[1] Initially Lasker wanted to play for $5,000 a side and a match was agreed at stakes of $3,000 a side, but Steinitz agreed to a series of reductions when Lasker found it difficult to raise the money, and the final figure was $2,000 each, which was less than for some of Steinitz's earlier matches (the final combined stake of $4,000 would be worth about $495,500 at 2007 values[2]). Although this was publicly praised as an act of sportsmanship on Steinitz's part,[1] Steinitz may have desperately needed the money.[3]
Results
The first player to win ten games would be champion.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Wins | Total | |
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| Template:Flagathlete | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | = | = | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | = | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | = | 1 | 10 | 12 |
| Template:Flagathlete | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | = | = | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | = | 0 | 5 | 7 |
Lasker won the Championship.
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References
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- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". Note this article implies that the final combined stake was US $4,500, but Lasker's financial analysis says it was $4,000: Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Using incomes for the adjustment factor, as the outcome depended on a few months' hard work by the players; if prices are used for the conversion, the result is about $99,500 - see Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". However, Lasker later published an analysis showing that the winning player got $1,600 and the losing player $600 out of the $4,000, as the backers who had bet on the winner got the rest: Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
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External links
- Source
- Preview in the New York Times, Mar 11 1894 (pdf file)
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