Lasker–Showalter Match 1892–93

A winter start and spring finish in Indiana
14 December 1892 – 26 April 1893 · Logansport and Kokomo, Indiana, United States
Lasker won 7–3

Emanuel Lasker defeated Jackson Showalter 6½–2½ across nine played games in Logansport and Kokomo. The first two games were split in December 1892 before the match resumed in April 1893, when Lasker scored five wins, one loss and one draw.

One match in two installments

Lasker and Showalter exchanged wins in Logansport on 14 and 16 December. The contest then resumed at Kokomo in April, with those results carried into the revised first-to-six-wins format.

Some records print +6 −2 =2 and a 7–3 tally because an intended third game was waived and counted as an agreed draw. No moves were played, so the public archive contains only the nine genuine scores and preserves the jump from round two to round four.

Cross table

7–3
Lasker won · official result +6-2=2

This archive holds 9 of the 10 match games; the official score above is authoritative.

Player 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts
Lasker 1010½1111 7
Showalter 0101½0000 3

1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.