Emanuel Lasker defeated Henry Bird 8½–3½ in a twelve-game formal match at Liverpool. Lasker won seven games, lost two and drew three.
A five-point margin
Seven Lasker wins supplied the foundation of the result. Bird won twice and the remaining three games were drawn, leaving Lasker five points clear.
Accounts of the score differ; the historical record settles on +7 −2 =3, which is also what the twelve surviving games add up to.
Liverpool, not London
Some older references put the match in London, but the historical sources place it in Liverpool, from February 17 to 28, 1890.
Cross table
1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.