Games 1-5; Vienna

Game 5 : Schlechter - Lasker

after 39.a3-a4

Games 6-10; Berlin

Game 7 : Schlechter - Lasker

after 18.Bf4-d6(xP)

This was a curious match terminated by a curious game. Schlechter needed only a draw in the 10th game to win the title of World Champion. He missed a win and later a draw to lose the game and, with it, the match. He claimed he saw the draw during the game.

Game 10 : Lasker - Schlechter after 35...Rf7-f4(xP) (35...Rf8-d8 wins)	later in the same game... after 39...Qh2-h1+ (39...Qh4+ draws)

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