World Chess Championship 1889

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World Chess Championship 1889

	Defending champion	Challenger
	Wilhelm Steinitz	Mikhail Chigorin
	10½ Scores 6½
	Born 14 May 1836 52 years old	Born 12 November 1850 38 years old
← 1886 1890–1891 →

The World Chess Championship 1889, considered the second official World Chess Championship match, was held in Havana, Cuba.^[1] Defending champion Wilhelm Steinitz beat Russian challenger Mikhail Chigorin by a score of 10½–6½.^[1] The match consisted of a maximum of 20 games, meaning the first player to 10½ points would be crowned the victor, marking a slight deviation from the "first to ten" format of Steinitz's prior title bout in 1886.