Carl Schlechter - Lasker-Schlechter Match

Lasker-Schlechter Match

In 1910 Schlechter played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship (in Vienna and Berlin). It is now generally accepted that Schlechter needed to score +2 to win the match and thus he needed to win the tenth game. But, in the tenth game, tragedy struck: after first achieving a won game, he blundered into a clearly drawn position, and then blundered again which led to the loss of the game for him. The match ended tied at 5-5 (+1 -1 =8) and Lasker retained his title. For details on the match, see World Chess Championship 1910 (Lasker-Schlechter). In any case, Schlechter distinguished himself by being the first person in 16 years to seriously threaten to claim Lasker's world title.