The Championship Match

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Excerpt from The Championship Match: Lasker V. TarraschFrom the foregoing summary, it will be gathered that the final figures of the match are no criterion of the comparative strength of the combatants. The fairest and most impartial estimate is probably the one given by Herr Regierungsrat Berger - six to five, with five draws in favour of Lasker. As to the games, they have been published all over the world, and commented upon - in¿uenced in a great measure by Dr. Lasker's own criticism, supplied by himself to various papers. But, depriving them of the glamour of championship games, and withholding the names of the eminent contestants who produced them, they would not be considered specimens of the highest form of chess. This verdict, again, must be qualified by the fact that expectations ran so high before the commencement of the struggle that a reaction of feeling set in when the games came to hand. Faults of omission and commission have occurred, from which Dr. Tarrasch's former games were generally free, giving, naturally, rise to conjectures what the result would have been had these faults not occurred. However, Lasker won the match, and this fact alone, even without the evidence supplied by the games themselves, entitle him to be considered the better man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.