World Chess Championship 1908

Emanuel Lasker faced Siegbert Tarrasch in the 1908 World Chess Championship. It was played from August 17 to September 30, 1908 in Düsseldorf and Munich, Lasker successfully defending his title.

Results

The first player to win eight games would be the World Champion.

World Chess Championship Match 1908
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Wins	Total
Emanuel Lasker (Germany)	1	1	0	1	1	=	1	=	=	0	1	0	1	=	=	1	8	10½
Siegbert Tarrasch (Germany)	0	0	1	0	0	=	0	=	=	1	0	1	0	=	=	0	3	5½

Lasker retained his title.

Flank opening	English Opening Zukertort Opening Réti Opening King's Indian Attack Larsen's Opening Bird's Opening Grob's Attack Dunst Opening Benko Opening

King's Pawn Game	Alekhine's Defence Caro–Kann Defence French Defence Modern Defence Nimzowitsch Defence Open Game Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ruy Lopez Scotch Game Owen's Defence Pirc Defence Sicilian Defence Alapin Dragon/Accelerated Dragon Najdorf Scheveningen

Queen's Pawn Game	Dutch Defence Indian Defence Benoni Defence Bogo-Indian Defence Grünfeld Defence King's Indian Defence Nimzo-Indian Defence Queen's Indian Defence Trompowsky Attack London System Queen's Gambit Accepted Declined Slav Defence Catalan Opening

Other	List of openings theory table Irregular Quick checkmates Fool's mate Scholar's mate

pre-FIDE

Split title

PCA/Classical	1993, 1995 (Kasparov) 2000, 2004 (Kramnik)

FIDE	1993, 1996, 1998 (Karpov) 1999 (Khalifman) 2000 (Anand) 2002 (Ponomariov) 2004 (Kasimdzhanov) 2005 (Topalov)

FIDE

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