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Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a famous German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. He had a long and distinguished chess career, at times considered the leading player in the world, and world famous for his sparkling play even today. Image File history File links And00278. ...
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A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in the general population. ...
Background and early life
Anderssen was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1818. He lived in the city of his birth for most of his life, never married, living with and supporting his widowed mother and his unmarried sister. Anderssen graduated from the public gymnasium in Breslau, then attended university where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He graduated, and took a position at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium as an instructor in 1847(29 year old) and later Professor of Mathematics. Anderssen lived a quiet, stable, responsible, respectable, middle-class life. His career was teaching math, while his hobby and passion was playing chess. WrocÅ‚aw, (Polish pronunciation: (?), Czech: , German: ( (help· info)), Latin: Wratislavia or Vratislavia) is the capital of Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ...
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When Anderssen was nine years old, his father taught him how to play. Anderssen said that as a boy, he learned the strategy of the game from a copy of William Lewis's book Fifty Games between Labourdonnais and McDonnell(1835). Anderssen was not a chess prodigy; his progress was deliberate, and by 1840 at age twenty-two, he had not yet surpassed German masters such as Ludwig Bledow, von der Lasa, and Wilhelm Hanstein. William Lewis was the first club secretary of Chelsea Football Club when it was founded in 1905. ...
Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. ...
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Anderssen first came to the attention of the chess world when he published some short and lively chess problems in 1842. Then in 1846, he became an editor with the magazine Schachzeitung (later called Deutsche Schachzeitung). Excelsior by Sam Loyd. ...
London 1851 In 1848 Anderssen drew a match with the professional player Daniel Harrwitz. On the basis of this match and his general chess reputation, he received an invitation to be the standard-bearer for German chess at the world's first international chess tournament, London 1851. Anderssen was reluctant to accept the invitation, as travel costs were a substantial issue to his limited pocketbook. However, Howard Staunton offered to pay Anderssen's travel expenses out of his own pocket if necessary, should Anderssen fail to win a tournament prize. This was a generous offer, and Anderssen made the trip. At that tournament, Anderssen defeated Lionel Kieseritzky, József Szén, Staunton, and Marmaduke Wyvill, winning the tournament to everyone's surprise. Daniel Harrwitz (1823 - 1884) was a German chess master. ...
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Anderssen was celebrated as well for two of his casual chess games in which he was victorious through combinations involving heavy sacrifice of the pieces. In the first, called the Immortal Game, as white against Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851, he sacrified a bishop, both rooks and finally his queen. In the second played in Berlin, in the year 1852, as white against Jean Dufresne, the total sacrifice was more modest, but still exceeded a queen and a minor piece. That game has since been called the Evergreen Game. The immortal game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. ...
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (born January 1, 1806 in Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia - died May 18, 1853, in Paris, France) was a 19th century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which was so brilliant it was named The Immortal Game . A mathematics teacher like...
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Jean Dufresne (February 14, 1829 - 1893) was a German chess player. ...
The evergreen game is a famous chess game played in 1852 between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne. ...
For the next few years he was considered by many people to be the world's premier player, but as he needed to earn for living, he had to go back for teaching again after the competition. Then in 1858 he was beaten by the American star Paul Morphy in a famous match held in Paris, France, losing by a score of two wins versus Morphy's seven, with two draws. Paul Morphy Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), The Pride and Sorrow of Chess, was an American chess player. ...
Anderssen played the curious initial move of 1. a3 in the match against Morphy, and this opening move is now referred to as "Anderssen's Opening." The opening has never been popular in serious competition. Anderssens Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move 1. ...
London 1862 Three years after being defeated by Morphy, Anderssen came back and won London 1862, the first international round-robin event (in which each participant plays a game against all the others) with a score of twelve wins out of thirteen games, losing only to John Owen. Morphy had retired from chess at this time. John Owen (1827 - 1901) was an English vicar and strong amateur chess player. ...
In 1866 he played and lost a close match (6:8) with young Wilhelm Steinitz (30 year-old). The match introduced a number of new ideas to the field of chess strategy. A few modern writers say that after the match Steinitz was the world champion, but the players themselves did not make any such claim, nor did anybody else at the time. Later Anderssen lost a second match against Steinitz. Wilhelm Steinitz Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836, Prague–August 12, 1900, New York) was an Austrian-American chess player and the first official world chess champion. ...
- Max Euwe In chess, tactics are short term maneuvers which serve to gain a quick advantage. ...
Anderssen was generally well liked and considered very honest. Steinitz wrote: "Anderssen was honest and honourable to the core. Without fear or favour he straightforwardly gave his opinion, and his sincere disinterestedness became so patent....that his word alone was usually sufficient to quell disputes...for he had often given his decision in favour of a rival..."
Baden-Baden 1870 Anderssen's greatest chess achievement came late in his life, when he won Baden-Baden 1870, the strongest tournament ever held up to its time. He finished first ahead of his old nemesis Steinitz, as well as the great players Neumann and Blackburne.
Still playing strongly, Anderssen's last major victory was placing second at Leipzig 1877, at the age of fifty nine. Two years later, he died.
The Deutsche Schachzeitung noted his death in 1879 with a nineteen page obituary.
Notable games
See also Current World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. ...
References - The Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd Ed., by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. 1992 ISBN 0-19-866164-9
- World chess champions by Edward G. Winter, editor. 19981 ISBN 0-08-024904-1
Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of the Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English. ...
Edward Winter is a noted journalist and author about chess. ...
Further reading - The World's Great Chess Games by Reuben Fine; Dover; 1983. ISBN 0-486-24512-8
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