World Chess Championship 1907
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| Emanuel Lasker | Frank Marshall | |
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| status | Defending champion | challenger |
| Age | 38 years | 29 years |
At the world chess championship in 1907 , world champion Emanuel Lasker successfully defended his title against Frank Marshall .
prehistory
After his victory in the revenge fight in 1896/97 against Wilhelm Steinitz , Lasker had not defended his title for 10 years. Lasker had turned down an offer from the Saint Petersburg chess club to organize a match against Mikhail Chigorin , as had an offer from the Moscow chess club for a duel with Siegbert Tarrasch . A competition with Tarrasch, which had already been agreed for autumn 1904, could not take place because Tarrasch was injured in an accident.
Finally, a challenger was found in Frank Marshall. He had won the Cambridge Springs tournament in 1904 and the Nuremberg tournament in 1906 . Whether he was the strongest possible challenger, however, was doubtful. After all, he had played a match against Tarrasch in 1905, in which Tarrasch had clearly beaten him (+8 = 8 −1).
Organization and rules
The championship match against Marshall was hosted by chess clubs in six cities: New York , Philadelphia , Washington , Memphis , Chicago and Baltimore . The winner should be the one who would have won 8 games first.
course
The competition began on January 26, 1907 with three wins in a row for Lasker. On April 6th, Lasker took the eighth victory and had defeated Marshall even more clearly (+8 = 7 −0) than Tarrasch had done two years earlier.
World Chess Championship 1907 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th Victories Points Lasker 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 8th 11½ Marshall 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 3½
literature
- Raymund Stolze : Contested Crown - The duels of the world chess champions from Steinitz to Kasparow . Sportverlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-328-00526-9 .
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