Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879) was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost...

Anderssen's Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: 1. a3 Anderssen's Opening is named after unofficial World Chess Champion Adolf Anderssen...

most of the leading English and French players, as well as the German Adolf Anderssen—again winning all matches by large margins. In 1859, Morphy returned...

players, and he was able to arrange a match in 1866 in London against Adolf Anderssen, who was regarded as the world's strongest active player because he...

The Evergreen Game is a famous chess game won by Adolf Anderssen against Jean Dufresne in 1852. This was probably an informal game. At the time, there...

1867–68 Anderssen's Opening, chess opening named after Adolf Anderssen Justus Anderssen (1867–1938), Norwegian physician and philatelist Lena Anderssen (born...

The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. It was played while the London 1851 chess tournament was...

that the best chess players in Europe would meet in a single event. Adolf Anderssen of Germany won the sixteen-player tournament, earning him the status...

Romanian chess player Adolf Althoff (1913–1998), German circus owner Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879), German chess player Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish...

won convincingly by the German Adolf Anderssen, including a 4–1 semi-final win over Staunton. This established Anderssen as the world's leading player...

Romantic era were Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy and Henry Blackburne. A famous game of this time is the Immortal Game between Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky...

contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, known as the "Immortal Game". Kieseritzky's name became associated...

1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player. From 1840 onwards...

with Wilhelm Steinitz, in 1866, which he lost by 6 games to 8, that Anderssen's supremacy is assumed to have come to an end." Winter 2023a "The International...

in 1851 and won, surprisingly, by German Adolf Anderssen, who was relatively unknown at the time. Anderssen was hailed as the leading chess master, and...

by Adolf Anderssen, the Immortal Game, featured a queen sacrifice as part of White's final mating combination. In the diagram position Anderssen gave...

of his time, Adolf Anderssen... Jakob Rosanes vs Adolf Anderssen, Breslau, 1863, King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritzky Gambit Anderssen Defense (C39)...

Players including Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy and Mikhail Chigorin later took it up. The Evergreen Game won by Adolf Anderssen against Jean Dufresne...

German Chess Congress, Adolf Anderssen won); tied for 2nd at Leipzig 1876 (2nd MDSB–Congress, Middle German Chess Congress, Anderssen won); took 5th at Leipzig...

strongest in the world at the time by his contemporaries, including Adolf Anderssen. He was a well-developed player who won various Dutch chess championships...

Staunton in 1846 at odds of a pawn and two moves, and drew a match with Adolf Anderssen in Germany in 1848. Harrwitz lived in England from 1849, and founded...

from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became...

thought was in turn a reaction to the earlier swashbuckling style of Adolf Anderssen, Henry Blackburne, and others, who represented the Romantic school...

Hoffmann. 1851: Adolf Anderssen vs Lionel Kieseritzky, London. "The Immortal Game" Lionel Kieseritzky neglects his development and Adolf Anderssen sacrifices...

mate, including the Immortal Game and the Evergreen Game, both won by Adolf Anderssen; the Peruvian Immortal; and the Game of the Century, an early brilliancy...

was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, to whom he lost the "Evergreen game" in 1852. Dufresne was born and...

Austrian master Ernst Falkbeer who played it in an 1851 game against Adolf Anderssen. The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings codes for the Falkbeer Countergambit...

included Adolf Anderssen, Daniel Harrwitz, Henry Bird, Louis Paulsen, Paul Morphy and Joseph Henry Blackburne. The Immortal Game, played by Anderssen and Lionel...

Baden-Baden in 1870, where he shared 3rd place with Gustav Neumann, behind Adolf Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz but ahead of Paulsen, De Vere, Simon Winawer,...

Deschapelles Legall de Kermeur (Philidor's teacher) Jules Arnous de Rivière Adolf Anderssen Samuel Rosenthal Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant Lionel Kieseritzky...