Wilhelm Steinitz
Match results
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Wilhelm Steinitz

Section Title: Match results
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Date	Opponent	Result	Location	Score	Notes

1860	Eduard Jenay	Drew	Vienna	2/4	2 : 2

1860	Lang	Won	Vienna	3/3	+3−0=0

1862	Serafino Dubois	Won	London	5½/9	+5−3=1

1862	Adolf Anderssen	Lost	London	1/3	+1−2=0	Offhand games

1862–63	Joseph Henry Blackburne	Won	London	8/10	+7−1=2	Only 2 years after Blackburne started playing chess.

1863	Frederic Deacon	Won	London	5½/7	+5−1=1

1863	Augustus Mongredien	Won	London	7/7	+7−0=0

1863–64	Valentine Green	Won	London	8/9	+7−0=2

1865	James Robey	Won	London	4/5	4 : 1	Probably not a formal match

1866	Adolf Anderssen	Won	London	8/14	+8−6=0	As a result of this win Steinitz was generally regarded as the world's best player.

1866	Henry Edward Bird	Won	London	9½/17	+7−5=5	Bird was forced to discontinue match when sent on business to America.

1867	George Brunton Fraser	Won	Dundee	4/6	+3−1=2

1870	Blackburne	Won	London	1½/2	+1−0=1

1872	Johannes Zukertort	Won	London	9/12	+7−1=4

1873	Blackburne	Won	Vienna	2/2	+2−0=0	Play-off match.

1876	Blackburne	Won	London	7/7	+7−0=0

1882	Szymon Winawer	Drew	Vienna	1/2	1 : 1	Play-off match.

1882	Dion Martinez	Won	Philadelphia	7/7	+7−0=0

1882	Alexander Sellman	Won	Baltimore	3½/5	+2−0=3

1883	George Henry Mackenzie	Won	New York	4/6	+3−1=2

1883	Martinez	Won	Philadelphia	4½/7	+3−1=3

1883	Celso Golmayo Zúpide	Won	Havana	9/11	9 : 2

1883	Martinez	Won	Philadelphia	10/11	10 : 1

1885	Alexander Sellman	Won	Baltimore	3/3	+3−0=0

1886	Zukertort	Won	New York, St.Louis and New Orleans	12½/20	+10−5=5	World Chess Championship 1886; the contract for this match said it was "for the Championship of the World".

1888	Alberto Ponce	Won	Havana	4/5	4 : 1

1888	Andrés Vásquez	Won	Havana	5/5	+5−0=0

1888	Golmayo	Won	Havana	5/5	+5−0=0

1889	Vicente Carvajal	Won	Havana	4/5	4 : 1

1889	Mikhail Chigorin	Won	Havana	10½/17	+10−6=1	World Chess Championship 1889; often described as a World Championship match, but may not have been.

1890–91	Isidor Gunsberg	Won	New York	10½/19	+6−4=9	World Chess Championship 1891 match.

1892	Chigorin	Won	Havana	12½/23	+10−8=5	World Chess Championship 1892 match.

1894	Emanuel Lasker	Lost	New York, Philadelphia and Montreal	7/19	+5−10=4	World Chess Championship 1894 match; Steinitz's first recorded defeat in a serious match.

1896	Emanuel Schiffers	Won	Rostov-on-Don	6½/11	+6−4=1

1896–97	Lasker	Lost	Moscow	4½/17	+2−10=5	World Chess Championship 1897 match.

1897	S. Lipschütz	Drew	New York	1/2	1 : 1	Play-off match.

Sentence(s)

Steinitz played against Chigorin in Havana in 1892, and won (ten wins, five draws, eight losses).

final_sentence: Steinitz played against Chigorin in Havana in 1892, and won (ten wins, five draws, eight losses).