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" . is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German, Polish Dorpat, Russian Юpьeв Yuryev) is the second largest city of Estonia, with its population of 101,246 (the Population Census data is from 2000) in an area of 38. ... County Tartu County Mayor Laine Jänes Area 38. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Adolf Anderssen 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. ... The immortal game is a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. ...

Lionel Kieseritzky was born in a Baltic German family. In 1825-29, he studied at Dorpat university, and then worked as a mathematics teacher like Anderssen. In 1838/39, Kieseritzky played a correspondence match against Carl Jaenisch - unfinished, because he had leaving for Paris. There, he became a chess professional, giving lessons or playing games for five francs an hour, and editing a chess magazine. He became one of the four leading French masters of the time, alongside Louis de la Bourdonnais, Pierre-Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant and Boncourt, and for the few years before his death was among the top two players in the world along with Howard Staunton. His knowledge of the game was significant and he made contributions to chess theory of his own, but his career was somewhat blighted by misfortune and a passion for the unsound. In 1846 he won matches against the German masters: Bernhard Horwitz (+7 -4 =1), and Daniel Harrwitz (+11 -5 =2). He enjoyed a number of other magnificent victories across his career, but his nerve was lacking when it came to tournament play. The Baltic Germans (German: , Deutschbalten; literally German Balts) were ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, which today forms the countries of Estonia and Latvia. ... Carl Friedrich Andreyevich von Jaenisch (1813 – 1872) was a Russian chess player. ... Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais (1795 - 1840) was a French chess master, the strongest player in the early 19th century. ... Pierre Charles Fournier de St. ... There are communes that have the name Boncourt in France: In France Boncourt, in the Aisne département Boncourt, in the Eure département Boncourt, in the Eure-et-Loir département Boncourt, in the Meurthe_et_Moselle département Related Boncourt-le-Bois, in the Côte-dOr département... Howard Staunton Howard Staunton (April 1810 - June 22, 1874) was an English chess master and unofficial World Chess Champion. ... Bernhard Horwitz (1808-1885) was a German English chess master. ... Daniel Harrwitz (1823 - 1884) was a German chess master. ...

In 1851 he was invited to play in the first international chess tournament in London where he was defeated 0.5-2.5 in the first round by the eventual winner Adolf Anderssen. One of the games was finished in a mere 20 minutes after a horrific blunder Staunton described as having been "never equalled even among beginners of the game"; the other loss was equally one-sided. During his time in London however, Kieseritzky also played an off-hand game against Anderssen which has so thrilled generations of chess players that it has been dubbed "The Immortal Game". Despite losing, it was in fact Kieseritzky who recorded and published the game during his period as editor of "La Regence". Adolf Anderssen 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. ... The immortal game is a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. ...

Kieseritzky was never a popular man owing to his narcissistic character - considering himself the "Chess Messiah" - and in 1853 he died following a bout of mental illness. He was buried in a pauper's grave, completely unmourned. Narcissism is the pattern of traits and behaviors which involve infatuation and obsession with ones self to the exclusion of others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of ones gratification, dominance and ambition. ... In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ Standard Hebrew Arabic: , المسيح), Tiberian Hebrew , Aramaic ) initially meant any person who was anointed to a certain position among the ancient Israelites, at first that of High priest, later that of King and also that of a prophet. ...

The following game, played in Paris in 1844 against Schulten, represents probably his finest combination, and bears a similarity to the famous "Immortal Game" he was to lose seven years later (moves given in Algebraic chess notation): This article is about the capital of France. ... Jan. ... Johann Wilhelm Schulten was a chess player from Germany. ... The immortal game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. ... Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games. ...

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Bxb5 Nf6 6.Nc3 Ng4 7.Nh3 Nc6 8.Nd5 Nd4 9.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 f3! 11.d3 f6 12.Bc4 d5 13.Bxd5 Bd6 14.Qe1? (14.e5! seems to be in white's favor. Instead he is delivered a beautiful forced mate.) 14...fxg2+ 15.Kxg2 Qxh3+!! 16.Kxh3 Ne3+ 17.Kh4 Nf3+ 18.Kh5 Bg4# 0-1

References

• Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld (1996). The Oxford Companion To Chess. Oxford University, p. 200. ISBN 0-19-280049-3. 
• G.H. Diggle (Nov. 1976) "Chess Characters: Reminiscences of a Badmaster". British Chess Federation
• Zagadka Kieseritzky'ego by Tomasz Lissowski and Bartlomiej Macieja, Warsaw 1996

David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915- May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. ... 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. ...

External links

• Lionel Kieseritzky at ChessGames.com