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Rook-N-Pawn - Adolf Anderssen Chess Set - 4.4" King - Ebony w/ Storage Case
The Adolf Anderssen Commemorative Wood Chess Set has honest beautiful lines and a classy feel much like the player it commemorates. Quadruple weighted jet black ebony pieces add to the feel of the set. The pictures say everything you need to know about the Knights. 2 finneals for each of the kings. Hand turned wood chess pieces give this set a tremendous feel. This set comes in a dual level Crushed Blue Velvet storage box. A little about Adolf Anderssen: Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. He had a long and distinguished chess career, and is generally considered to have been the leading chess player in the world from 1851-1858 and 1861-1866. Anderssen is sometimes considered to have been unofficial World Chess Champion. He is famous for his sparkling play even today. Anderssen lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858 and Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. However he won the three major international tournaments played during his lifetime: London 1851, London 1862 and Baden-Baden 1870. 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. This was world's first international chess tournament where major grand masters took part in serious competition. All the best players except Russian Petroff participated. 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, Staunton, and Marmaduke Wyvill, winning the tournament. The 1851 tournament is often considered to be a world chess championship, although the term does not appear to have been used. In any case, the tournament established Anderssen as the leading chess player in the world. 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 sacrificed 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.
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