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Adolf Anderssen
German master who won the first international tournament, London 1851, and was regarded as the world's leading player for much of the next two decades. His Immortal Game and Evergreen Game are the classics of romantic attacking chess.
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How Anderssen plays
Anderssen was the strongest player of the 1850s and 60s, winner of the first international tournament in London 1851, and the master of the Romantic style: gambits, open lines and brilliant sacrificial attacks. The Immortal Game and the Evergreen Game are both his.
What to learn from Anderssen
Anderssen's games show attacking chess in its purest form. The combinations are long and the sacrifices spectacular; try to work out why each one works before playing on.
A game to play through
Anderssen, Adolf vs Kieseritzky, Lionel - London 'Immortal game' 1851 1-0 — the final position. The Immortal Game, London 1851. Anderssen gave up both rooks, a bishop and finally his queen, and mated with his three remaining minor pieces: 23.Be7#.
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Adolf Anderssen games on FoxyChess
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- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 0-1
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris it 1858 1-0
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 Draw
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 0-1
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 0-1
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 Draw
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Morphy, Paul - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Morphy, Paul vs Anderssen, Adolf - Paris m1 1858 1-0
- Nimzowitsch, Aaron vs Albin, Adolf - Vienna 1905 1-0
- Olland, Adolf Georg vs Nimzowitsch, Aaron - Karlsbad 1907 0-1
- Anderssen,A vs Kieseritzky,L - London (The Immortal Game) 1851 1-0
- Anderssen,A vs Dufresne,J - Evergreen game 1852 1-0
- Anderssen,A vs Zukertort,J - Barmen 1869 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Dufresne, Jean - Berlin m2 1851 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Falkbeer, Ernst Karl - Berlin m3 1851 1-0
- Perigal, George vs Anderssen, Adolf - London2 1851 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Kieseritzky, Lionel - London 'Immortal game' 1851 1-0
- Loewenthal, Johann Jacob vs Anderssen, Adolf - London m9 1851 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Simons, A. - London2 1851 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Zytogorski, Adolf - London2 1851 1-0
- Kieseritzky, Lionel vs Anderssen, Adolf - London 1851 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Staunton, Howard - London 1851 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Mayet, Carl - Berlin m1 1855 1-0
- Mayet, Carl vs Anderssen, Adolf - Berlin m1 1855 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Lepge, Karl - Leipzig 1855 1-0
- Pollmacher, Hermann vs Anderssen, Adolf - Leipzig m 1855 0-1
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Hillel, D. - Breslau m 1856 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Harrwitz, Daniel - Manchester 1857 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Suhle, Berthold - Breslau m1 1859 1-0
- Anderssen, Adolf vs Kolisch, Ignatz - Paris m 1860 1-0
- Lelie vs Anderssen, Adolf - Amsterdam 1861 0-1
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