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| Apr-18-14 | | Lossmaster: The caption of the photo currently at the top of this page says it was taken in Montreal, but as far as I can tell from the position, it looks like game #2 at New York (Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894) right after move 5. c3. This is consistent with AVRO38's comment above (Mar-20-12) about the table being from the Manhattan Chess Club. To view a great photo actually taken in Montreal, on a different table, in the middle of game #15, see my kibitz in Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894. |
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Apr-18-14
 | | jnpope: <Lossmaster> is correct (and nice find of a contemporary source for that photograph). Photographs from all three playing locations exist:
http://www.chessarch.com/gallery/in... |
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| Apr-19-14 | | Lossmaster: The game position on the Philadelphia picture looks like the very end of game #10 (Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894). Steinitz is just about to stand up: "All right, you got me." About the contemporary source of the Montreal picture, Le Monde illustré, a weekly publication, you can browse it right here: http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/...
Look up for the May 26th 1894 issue, which happened to be published exactly on the day of the 19th and final game, though the game pictured on the cover is #15, played on May 15th. The image quality is not as good as on my previous link, but on page 46 you can read the short article related to the cover picture. It must have been written between games #16 and #17, because Lasker is said to be leading the match 9 wins to 4. Steinitz is said to be "world champion since twenty-seven years". (I'm aware that the starting date of his reign is a hotly debated issue...) While you're at it, look at the bottom of the next page (p. 47): there's a mate-in-two problem waiting for you. |
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| Nov-16-14 | | Ke2: <Lasker had noticed signs of uncertainty in Steinitz' handling of "simplified" middlegames, without Queens. Recognizing the champion's superiority in managing a full army of pieces, Lasker deliberately sought early Queen exchanges. This strategy certainly worked in Philadelphia.> Sound familiar? |
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May-18-15
 | | Chessical: Information on match conditions for the 1894 and 1896 matches. It seems to me as unlikely that the 1896 supplementary prize fund was 2,000 roubles for the winner but only 100 roubles for the loser (it is probably a misprint for 1,000 roubles as in the 1894 match where the winner received £200 and the loser £100). The current bullion value of a 1896 Russian Imperial Silver Rouble is $9.45/£6.03 so 2,000 roubles is approx. $18,900/£12,060 <THE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.>
[Reuter's telegram.]
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 28.
The chess match which is shortly to be played at Moscow between Mr. Steinitz and M. Lasker is really a return match. At the end of 1893 M. Lasker sent a challenge to Mr. Steinitz disputing his title to the championship of the world. The challenge was accepted, and the match played in March, 1894. The conditions were very severe, each player contributing a sum of $2,000, the victor to be the first winner of 10 games, drawn games not counting. Victory fell to M. Lasker, who gained 10 games, while Mr. Steinitz had only won nine (sic. should read five - ed.). As Mr. Steinitz, however, had never been beaten in any match with the leading players of the world, such as MM. Dubois, Blackburne, Anderssen, Zuckertort, Mackenzie, Gunsberg, and Tchigorin, he wished to have his revenge, and sent a challenge for the following month of May. M. Lasker for various reasons would only consent to play in the autumn, notwithstanding the protests of his antagonist, and owing chiefly to the St. Petersburg Chess Tournament last winter the return match has been deferred until the present time, when it will be played at Moscow. Each candidate will stake 500 roubles, and the Moscovite Committee of Moscow has added a prize of 2,000 roubles for the winner, and 100 roubles for the loser. M. Lasker proposes November 1 as the date for the match, but agrees to the 13th in the event of Mr. Steinitz wishing to take part in the International Chess Tournament which opens at Budapest on October 4. (Budapest (1896)) <Source: "Morning Post", Tuesday 29th September 1896, p.6>. |
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| May-18-15 | | thomastonk: <Chessical: ...as in the 1894 match where the winner received £200 and the loser £100> Would you please give a source? Background: I have different information. John Hilbert wrote in the Lasker biography that they played for less than half of the original planned $5000 on the-winner-takes-all basis, referring to DeLucia's "Library", p 174. Bird wrote about stakes of £400 a side in his book on that match, p 11. Moreover, I have some newspaper reports from New York, published at the beginning of the match, which confirm Hilbert's the-winner-takes-all. They give $2500 and $2000, but the difference is possibly based on counting or not counting the $250, which each side had to submit in advance. |
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May-19-15
| | Chessical: <Thomasstonk> I found the sums in a press report in a contemporaneous Dundee newspaper report: Lasker - Steinitz World Championship Rematch (1896) (kibitz #25) |
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| May-19-15 | | thomastonk: Thanks, <Chessiacal>! I understood your sentence in such a way that the £200/£100 were the prizes for the match of 1894. The 100 seem to be indeed a misprint: Landsberger quotes in his Steinitz biography, p 336, from "Shakmatny Zhurnal", and there are 2000 and 1000 rubles, as well as the personal wagers of 500 rubles. |
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Dec-08-15
 | | keypusher: Huebner wrote a book about the match in 2008:
https://www.newinchess.com/Der_Welt... The match actually takes up only half the book. There are descriptions and some annotations from Lasker's pre-Steinitz matches (in particular Mieses and Blackburne) and about 50 pages on Schlechter-Lasker, including extensive annotations of the 5th, 7th, and 10th games. The rematch with Steinitz and Lasker's other WC matches are mentioned only in passing. I love the book, despite my lack of German. Huebner's admiration for Lasker goes down very well for me. He pulls together and engages with contemporary commentary on the match, which I always enjoy. Like every German book I've ever seen, it looks great. Definitely a bit of an extravagance, but I'm thrilled with it. |
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Feb-21-17
| | jnpope: I have just updated the Chess Archaeology match page for this event: http://www.chessarch.com/archive/18... It now includes the match conditions as printed in the New York Sun, added Pillsbury's annotations where available, and more detailed post-match bickering by Steinitz (who reclaimed the title by forfeit... at least in his own mind). |
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Feb-21-17
| | keypusher: <jnpope> -- thanks, there was an very brief reference to the rematch dispute in the Hastings 1895 tournament book, it is nice to know more. |
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Apr-18-18
 | | mifralu: STEINITZ AND LASKER
How the Chess Giants Look as They Play Together.Roanoke Times 1 April 1894, page 6
https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-b... |
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Jan-13-19
 | | MissScarlett: The Standard, June 11th 1894, p.7:
<With the following three games, the publication of the whole of the nineteen games played in the match Steinitz v. Lasker, is now completed — a relief to the players, to the readers, and to ourselves [Hoffer, apparently]. The games are unsatisfactory in every respect — dreary, monotonous, unenterprising, and full of mistakes on the part of Steinitz. The theory has gained nothing, for that Steinitz's favourite variations were unreliable did not require to be proved by Lasker.> Chess players, they're never happy! |
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May-11-20
| | keypusher: Interesting match getting underway at chessbomb. https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/189... Lasker won the first game, but I've got a good feeling about Steinitz in the next one. |
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| Jan-12-21 | | Wanda Nida: lasker - steinitz I, lasker was doing fine in first 6 games but later lost straight 5 because lasker discovered something about exchanging queens and steinitz was unable to hold it? but exchanging queens isnt that simplifying position? it all depands like: Enjoy great 0-0-0-0 sample !!!
[Event "WCA-EURO CHAMPIONSHIP RE-MATCH SUPER 0-0-0-0 BONUS ROUNDS"]
[Site "ARTISTIC 0-0-0-0 GAME/geocities.ws/cmby2k"]
[Date "2001.8.03-2002.7.10"]
[Round "1a-Official-Lubek's 0-0-0-0 Viewer Required!"]
[White "GM Jan Lubek"]
[Black "GM Radovan Matic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN " 
click for larger view"] 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 b6 3.d4 Bb7 4.e4 Bb4 5.e5 Ne7 6.Qg4 Nf5 7.Bg5 h5
8.Qf5 ef5 9.Bd8 Kd8 10.0-0-0-0 Bc3 11.Rc3 Re8 12.Nf3 Be4 13.Kc1 Nc6
14.Be2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.Rd1 Bf3 17.Rf3 Rb8 18.Re3 a4
19.Kc210.0-0-0-0 ♗c3 11.♖c3 ♖e8 12.♘f3 ♗e4 13.♔c1 ♘c6
14.♗e2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.♖d1 ♗f3 17.♖f3 ♖b8 18.♖e3 a4 played before Na5
20.f4 c5 21.d5 Ke7 22.d6+ Kf8 23.Kc3 Nc6 24.Bf3 Nd4 25.Rxd4 cxd4+
26.Kd4 Rec8 27.b4 ab3 28.Rb3 Kg7 29.h4 Kf8 30.Rb5 f6 31.a4 fe5
32.fe5 Ke8 33.Bd5 Rd8 34.c5 bc5 35.Kc4 White's Excellent Move,
if the ♔ing takes the pawn, rook gets into white's territory,
picks up pawns and has good winning chances! f4 36.a5 Rxb5
37.Kxb5 ! If... c4 38.♔xc4 ♖c8 39.♔b5!!! 1-0 |
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| Jan-12-21 | | Wanda Nida: LET IT BE KNOWN THAT LASKER RESIGNED HIS CHAMPIONSHIP TO CASABLANCA SO HE DID NOT REIGN 27 YEARS, EVENTUALLY HE AGREED TO PLAY HIM BECAUSE OF DOUGH, DUH:
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... lasker - steinitz I, lasker was doing fine in first 6 games but later lost straight 5 because lasker discovered something about exchanging queens and steinitz was unable to hold it? but exchanging queens isnt that simplifying position? it all depands like: Enjoy great 0-0-0-0 sample !!!
[Event "WCA-EURO CHAMPIONSHIP RE-MATCH SUPER 0-0-0-0 BONUS ROUNDS"]
[Site "ARTISTIC 0-0-0-0 GAME/geocities.ws/cmby2k"]
[Date "2001.8.03-2002.7.10"]
[Round "1a-Official-Lubek's 0-0-0-0 Viewer Required!"]
[White "GM Jan Lubek"]
[Black "GM Radovan Matic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "
click for larger view"] 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 b6 3.d4 Bb7 4.e4 Bb4 5.e5 Ne7 6.Qg4 Nf5 7.Bg5 h5
8.Qf5 ef5 9.Bd8 Kd8 10.0-0-0-0 Bc3 11.Rc3 Re8 12.Nf3 Be4 13.Kc1 Nc6
14.Be2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.Rd1 Bf3 17.Rf3 Rb8 18.Re3 a4
19.Kc210.0-0-0-0 ♗c3 11.♖c3 ♖e8 12.♘f3 ♗e4 13.♔c1 ♘c6
14.♗e2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.♖d1 ♗f3 17.♖f3 ♖b8 18.♖e3 a4 played before Na5
20.f4 c5 21.d5 Ke7 22.d6+ Kf8 23.Kc3 Nc6 24.Bf3 Nd4 25.Rxd4 cxd4+
26.Kd4 Rec8 27.b4 ab3 28.Rb3 Kg7 29.h4 Kf8 30.Rb5 f6 31.a4 fe5
32.fe5 Ke8 33.Bd5 Rd8 34.c5 bc5 35.Kc4 White's Excellent Move,
if the ♔ing takes the pawn, rook gets into white's territory,
picks up pawns and has good winning chances! f4 36.a5 Rxb5
37.Kxb5 ! If... c4 38.♔xc4 ♖c8 39.♔b5!!! 1-0 |
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| Jan-12-21 | | Wanda Nida: 15 moves per hour should always be the norm in world championship matches for all sexes! we want quality games not crap like carlsen vs caruana, especially last game insanity! LET IT BE KNOWN THAT LASKER RESIGNED HIS CHAMPIONSHIP TO CASABLANCA SO HE DID NOT REIGN 27 YEARS, EVENTUALLY HE AGREED TO PLAY HIM BECAUSE OF DOUGH, DUH:
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... lasker - steinitz I, lasker was doing fine in first 6 games but later lost straight 5 because lasker discovered something about exchanging queens and steinitz was unable to hold it? but exchanging queens isnt that simplifying position? it all depands like: Enjoy great 0-0-0-0 sample !!!
[Event "WCA-EURO CHAMPIONSHIP RE-MATCH SUPER 0-0-0-0 BONUS ROUNDS"]
[Site "ARTISTIC 0-0-0-0 GAME/geocities.ws/cmby2k"]
[Date "2001.8.03-2002.7.10"]
[Round "1a-Official-Lubek's 0-0-0-0 Viewer Required!"]
[White "GM Jan Lubek"]
[Black "GM Radovan Matic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "
click for larger view"] 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 b6 3.d4 Bb7 4.e4 Bb4 5.e5 Ne7 6.Qg4 Nf5 7.Bg5 h5
8.Qf5 ef5 9.Bd8 Kd8 10.0-0-0-0 Bc3 11.Rc3 Re8 12.Nf3 Be4 13.Kc1 Nc6
14.Be2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.Rd1 Bf3 17.Rf3 Rb8 18.Re3 a4
19.Kc210.0-0-0-0 ♗c3 11.♖c3 ♖e8 12.♘f3 ♗e4 13.♔c1 ♘c6
14.♗e2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.♖d1 ♗f3 17.♖f3 ♖b8 18.♖e3 a4 played before Na5
20.f4 c5 21.d5 Ke7 22.d6+ Kf8 23.Kc3 Nc6 24.Bf3 Nd4 25.Rxd4 cxd4+
26.Kd4 Rec8 27.b4 ab3 28.Rb3 Kg7 29.h4 Kf8 30.Rb5 f6 31.a4 fe5
32.fe5 Ke8 33.Bd5 Rd8 34.c5 bc5 35.Kc4 White's Excellent Move,
if the ♔ing takes the pawn, rook gets into white's territory,
picks up pawns and has good winning chances! f4 36.a5 Rxb5
37.Kxb5 ! If... c4 38.♔xc4 ♖c8 39.♔b5!!! 1-0 |
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Jan-12-21
| | keypusher: OK, I now have an ignore list of one.
<Chess players, they're never happy!> Certainly true of Hoffer. |
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| Jan-12-21 | | Petrosianic: <Wanda Nida: <LET IT BE KNOWN THAT LASKER RESIGNED HIS CHAMPIONSHIP TO CASABLANCA> Who's Casablanca? Do you mean he resigned it IN Casablanca? You need to speak up. I could barely hear you there. |
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| Mar-28-21 | | RookFile: Steinitz always reminds me of a bulldog when you see him in photos. His play certainly had bulldog determination to it. |
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| Aug-24-21 | | Bartleby: <Rookfile: Steinitz always reminds me of a bulldog when you see him in photos. His play certainly had bulldog determination to it.> I think it was often reflected in his dogged (pun intended) adherence to certain cramped or old-fashioned defensive opening variations. His love of the Steinitz Defence of the Ruy Lopez, and there were other offbeat ones like 1. e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. d4!? in the Vienna Gambit ("The King is a strong piece"), and the whole pawn-grabby 4. ...Qh4?! line of the Scotch Game. I thought his WCC bouts with Chigorin were as much a theoretical and dogma battle over the board as a human, temperamental one. |
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| Aug-24-21 | | Joshka: A match like this validates my support for draws not counting and playing to a certain number of wins is the best way to go. 10 was the number of wins here, but 6 is probably just as good for this time in history. When draws are counted, whomever is in the lead can just coast his way to victory instead of earning it with wins! These matches that the current World Champ plays are laughable. The lack of world wide interest also supports my opinion. What happened during the last championship match? Not 1 win between the 2 players!!!! Unthinkable for fighting chess!! |
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Aug-25-21
 | | offramp: <Joshka> while I am here could you validate my parking? |
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| Aug-29-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
An outstanding article by 'introuble2':
<Steinitz v Lasker 1894. New Blood> https://www.chess.com/blog/introubl... With many contemporary pictures, articles and annotated games! ... |
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Nov-17-21
| | MissScarlett: Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, June 16th 1894, p.542: <The match between Lasker and Steinitz, says a morning paper, is now over - "a relief to the players, to the readers, and to ourselves" - and so say all of us. Our students and all game lovers desire in chess columns light, sparkling, amusing games, and not dreary Ruys, French stupid brain-worrying Zukertort and the pleasure-crushing P to Q 4 openings. Chess readers in general want to know the news about chess in the chief parts of the English world where it is cultivated, and are unwilling to give more than five minutes a week to the dull outcome of the tedious sittings of a pair of self-torturers.> |
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