From January 7 to February 10, 1910, Emanuel Lasker faced Carl Schlechter in a World Chess Championship played in Vienna and Berlin.

[2] On the other hand, in his book Le guide des échecs the chess author Nicolas Giffard does not express the slightest doubt that this was a chess championship match, but points out that in case Schlechter won, he would still need to win a revenge match before being called the World Champion.

Israel Horowitz, Nicolas Giffard and Fred Wilson all write that a two-point margin was required.

"[6] Lasker himself wrote two days before the tenth game, in his report to the New York Evening Post, "The match with Schlechter is nearing its end and it appears probable that for the first time in my life I shall be the loser.

[8] Another interpretation, offered separately by Luděk Pachman and Larry Evans, is that Schlechter simply did not play the final game well enough.

A fictionalised account of the match is presented in the 1998 novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw by Thomas Glavinic.