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| Knight13: Chessmetrics Player Profile: Adolf Anderssen
Born: 1818-Jul
Died: 1879-Mar
Best World Rank: #1 (7 different months between the December 1861 rating list and the August 1870 rating list ) Highest Rating: 2744 on the August 1870 rating list, #1 in world, age 52y1m Best Individual Performance: 2724 in Baden-Baden, 1870, scoring 11/16 (69%) vs 2611-rated opposition |
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Jun-28-08
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| BishopBerkeley: I see that Google Books has provided us with a collection of Chess puzzles published by Adolf Anderssen: http://tinyurl.com/56zk92
You can download the whole book as a PDF file for free if you wish (it is in the public domain). I did this myself, and the download worked nicely. There is a handwritten inscription visible in this copy from 1915. The volume apparently belongs to the New York Public Library. And here is a copy of "Neue Berliner Schachzeitung", a publication of Herr Anderssen and Herr Johannes Zukertort : http://tinyurl.com/4qm4yn
And here are a number of other works bearing Herr Anderssen's name: http://tinyurl.com/3uylj6
((I wonder if Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen is Herr Anderssen himself, or perhaps a relative?) (:  Bishop Berkeley :)
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| Jul-06-08 |
| offtherook: I've always found Anderssen's games inspiring, largely because I enjoy playing completely unsound chess. It's much more fun. |
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Jul-06-08
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| brankat: R.I.P. in Chess Haven Master Anderssen! |
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| Jul-06-08 |
| Voltaic: i can't think of chess without Anderssen, it's like if his existence was necessary to define the game, with his amazing dazzling sacrifices he gave the board so much joy and excitement. he had a natural boldness, and baldness, but out of the board he was a kind person and a true gentleman, chess history will always remember him as the man who accepted without hesitation Morphy's challenge, not like Staunton who dodged the young American as the pest. may Anderssen be checkmating everyone with knights and bishops in heaven :) |
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Jul-06-08
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| ketchuplover: wishing herr anderssen an immortal birthday |
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| Sep-01-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Photograph: http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scac... |
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| Sep-12-08 |
| Fanacas: Anderssen probaly played a3 to play in reversed colors so that he would play as black with the white piece's. |
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| Dec-21-08 |
| WhiteRook48: What if his opponent played ...a6?
Anderssen- the immortal winner :)
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| Dec-22-08 |
| WhiteRook48: 1. a3- a pass move. But Black can copy anyhow in the opening. Even with pass moves like 1. a3, Black can copy 1...a6. And Anderssen AND his opponent passed for first move. ???? |
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Dec-22-08
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| stoy: When Adolf Anderssen died it was written in an obituary by Potter that Anderssen considered all chessplayers to be his friends! |
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| Dec-24-08 |
| WhiteRook48: stupidest opening is 1. f4!! (suicidal game)
Black plays 1...e6
White plays 2. g4!! (The true king's gambit)
2...Qh4#
gambit accepted.
Bound to be a dumber opening than 1. a3 |
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| Feb-14-09 |
| WhiteRook48: no, the dumbest opening is 1. f3 a5 2. Kf2 d5 3. Kg3 h5 4. Kh4 |
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Feb-25-09
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| vonKrolock: Adolf Anderssen
"Illustrated London News" 1846
click for larger view
#5 white to play an mate in five moves
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| Feb-28-09 |
| WhiteRook48: let's see. I am currently thinking along the lines of 1. b4+ Ka4, but I don't think it's getting anywhere |
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Mar-01-09
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| vonKrolock: The key is not that difficult, as e1= is quite serious a threat... By the way, i posted this also to show that the idea in a threemover posted Feb 25 here Kamsky vs Topalov, 2009 was originally showed by Anderssen - as You can observe, Nigel Short shows there the solution and comment on a try |
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| Mar-01-09 |
| WhiteRook48: maybe 1. Rxb5+ would work, but... |
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Mar-01-09
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| vonKrolock: I took the diagram from a book published before 1914 - it can be still computer tested ;) |
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Mar-08-09
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| BishopBerkeley: Adolf Anderssen's gravesite:
http://tinyurl.com/au2wtb
Another view:
http://www.zck.wroc.pl/go/uploads/p... (: Bishop Berkeley :)
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| Mar-19-09 |
| gauer: <vonKrolock> 1 Qe1 (blockading e1), with threat(s) 2 Rd4, else 2 Qxd2#. Many times, white continues with 3 Ra4 BxR 4 b4 QxP 5 PxQ# or similar. Some examples of Pawns exerting their grip for extra space follows:
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 , Morphy vs S Boden, 1858 , F J Lee vs H Shoosmith, 1904 , K Kokolias vs F Sigalas, 2005 , Janowski vs Ed Lasker, 1924 , Pillsbury vs Gunsberg, 1895 , Pillsbury vs Schiffers, 1898 , Philidor vs NN, 1749 , Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1873 , Bogoljubov vs Mieses, 1925 , Kudrin vs R Douven, 1989 . Surely, there's many other great examples to stop these soldiers from rolling forth! Finally, another puzzle from Anderssen, unrelated, except being that of the same Composer. White plays, checkmating in three moves: 
click for larger viewHint: how can white force black to capture a pass, as in one of the similar themes to one of the games mentioned above? |
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| Jun-12-09 |
| James Demery: Not too many draws. This guy either won or lost. |
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| Jun-26-09 |
| visayanbraindoctor: It's interesting that Anderssen started playing competitive chess in the 1840s. 70 years later, by the 1910s (with the presence of Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine) the top chess masters were playing middle games and endgames at a similar level as today's top GMs. Perhaps somewhere there is an alternate Earth where players like Anderssen only started playing chess in the 1940s, after WW2. Then by now near 2010, about 70 years later, players of the caliber of Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine start dominating, bringing chess to the high limit that the brain allows humans to play it. Since no one can play as good as computers, the quality of the the best games levels off at this limit, and from then on, there would be a few top masters who would play at this limit every one or two generations. (Until some future society manages to hard-wire the human brain so that it can play as well as computers..) |
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Jul-06-09
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| brankat: R.I.P. Master Anderssen. |
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Jul-06-09
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| wordfunph: When Wilhelm Steinitz played Adolf Anderssen in an 1870 match, all 14 games were decisive. Steinitz won with a score of +8,-6. Happy Birthday Adolf Anderssen! |
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| Aug-28-09 |
| akapovsky: anderssen sometimes played like a world champion but at times like a 1200 elo,neglecting develpment and king safety,but he remained true to himself "attack always attack" |
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