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Schlechter's chess games

by Tom Crain Caissa Editions, 1998

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Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, USA, 1998, hardback, v+283 pp, 585 grams, condition: good+. A few light pencil underlinings in 2-3 chess games, in the  bibliography (p.273-279) and in the opponent index.

An original work which gives all the Schlechter games found in an exhaustive decade-long search. With 811 games, but no notes. A brief biography with some photos and cross-tables for his major tournaments.

In 1910, Schlechter played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship (in Vienna and Berlin). Schlechter was leading by one point going into the tenth and final game of the match. In the tenth game tragedy struck: after first achieving a won game, Schlechter blundered into a clearly drawn position and then blundered again which led to his loss of the game. The match ended tied at 5–5 (+1 −1 =8) and Lasker retained his title. It is disputed as to whether Schlechter needed to score +2 to win the match and thus needed to win the tenth game. No contract for the match has ever been found and no evidence supporting this rumor has ever been produced. Schlechter distinguished himself as the first player in 16 years to seriously challenge Lasker's world title.

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