CHESS PLAYER

Adolf Anderssen

1818 - 1879

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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 matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Anderssen has received more than 359,642 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Adolf Anderssen is the 15th most popular chess player (up from 18th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Poland (up from 159th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Chess Player.

Adolf Anderssen is most famous for his victory over Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Adolf Anderssen ranks 15 out of 461. Before him are Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, Garry Kasparov, Vasily Smyslov, and François-André Danican Philidor. After him are Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, Ruy López de Segura, Viktor Korchnoi, and Samuel Reshevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Adolf Anderssen ranks 13. Before him are Christian IX of Denmark, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Lewis H. Morgan, Marius Petipa, and Rudolf von Jhering. After him are Sophie of Württemberg, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Hermann Kolbe. Among people deceased in 1879, Adolf Anderssen ranks 6. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Bernadette Soubirous, Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. After him are Albrecht von Roon, Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, and Charles De Coster.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolf Anderssen ranks 134 out of 1,694. Before him are Alfred Döblin (1878), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Hanna Schygulla (1943), Angelus Silesius (1624), and Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260). After him are Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Władysław Gomułka (1905), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Adolf Anderssen ranks 2. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868). After him are Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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