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    December 8, 1910, a World Chess Championship match was played in Berlin between the champion Emanuel Lasker and the challenger David Janowski. It was the...
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    Janowski, who asked for a revenge match. Lasker accepted and they played a World Chess Championship match in Berlin in November–December 1910. Lasker...
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...
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  • World Chess Championship 1910 may refer to: World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter) World Chess Championship 1910 (LaskerJanowski) This disambiguation...
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    Dawid Markelowicz Janowski [ˈd̪avʲit̪ ˈmaʁkəlɔvit͡ʂ ˈjanɔfski] (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled David) was a Polish chess player. Several opening...
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    World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...
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    1897 World Chess Championship 1907 World Chess Championship 1908 World Chess Championship 1910 (LaskerJanowski) World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker–Schlechter)...
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    Of the first 13 undisputed world champions, six were Jewish or had some Jewish ancestry: Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail...
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    José Raúl Capablanca (category World chess champions)
    arrange a match with then world champion Emanuel Lasker, Capablanca finally won the world chess champion title from Lasker in 1921. Capablanca was undefeated...
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  • Birstall – 11 November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions. He started a career in accountancy...
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  • Women's World Chess Championship World Junior Chess Championship List of Armenian chess players List of Indian chess players List of Israeli chess players...
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    International Chess Congress was the first major international chess tournament in America in the twentieth century. World Champion Emanuel Lasker, who had...
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    Carl Schlechter (category Austrian chess players)
    Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Schlechter...
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    Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Chess Challenge Chess World Cup 2005 Chess World Cup 2007 Chess World Cup 2009 Chess World Cup 2011 Chess World Cup 2013 Chess World...
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  • Henry Ernest Atkins (category English chess players)
    number 2 in the world at the time; Chigorin had played matches for the World Chess Championship in 1889 and 1892, and Marshall and Janowski would go on to...
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    Alexander Alekhine (category World chess champions)
    of "Grandmaster of Chess" on each of the five finalists (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall). (Chess historian Edward Winter...
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    Joseph Henry Blackburne (category English chess players)
    playing chess for barely 3 years, and in 1876 Steinitz was playing at his life-time best and in the middle of a 24-game winning streak. Emanuel Lasker beat...
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    Morphy number (category Chess terminology)
    generations. Botvinnik and Reshevsky played older masters such as Lasker and Janowski, had long careers, and played many younger players. Najdorf was Tartakower's...
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    would be offered to the first chess player who would win the Finnish chess championship for the third time. As Eero Böök (1910-1990) did so in 1936, it is...
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  • Oscar Chajes (category Jewish chess players)
    took 3rd in New York (Quadrangular). During World War I, in 1914, he tied for 2nd-3rd in New York (Edward Lasker won). In 1915, he tied for 3rd-4th in New...
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  • Norman T. Whitaker (category American chess writers)
    Emanuel Lasker and future world champion Jose Raul Capablanca. Lasker was in Philadelphia to play part of his World Chess Championship 1907 match against Frank...
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    Charles Jaffe (category 20th-century American chess players)
    Gambit Declined (D52), 0-1 Janowski narrowly prevailed in this match; he had earlier challenged Emanuel Lasker for the world title. http://www.chesshistory...
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    Chessmaster Emanuel Lasker retained his world championship, winning the eighth of 11 games at a match in Berlin against David Janowski. Aviator Georges Legagneux...
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  • Kadłubek, 13th-century historian of Poland Józef Kasparek, constitutions; World War II era Stefan Kieniewicz, 19th-century Polish history Jerzy Kirchmayer...
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