Adolf Anderssen

[John Townsend]

Edward Winter has posted a feature article entitled Adolf Anderssen:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... rssen.html

In 1866, Anderssen unexpectedly lost a match to Steinitz. Later events showed this was not simply a case of the young replacing the old. In fact, Steinitz never subsequently finished ahead of Anderssen in any tournament in which they both competed.

[Craig Pritchett]

Oops!

The great Vienna 1873 tournament: Anderssen (3rd) was fairly outdistanced by both Steinitz (who defeated Anderssen 2-0 in their individual games) and Blackburne. Steinitz won the tournament tie break against Blackburne 2-0.

See (among other sources): Ch 2 'Achieving Supremacy 1867-1876' in my book 'Steinitz Move by Move' (Everyman 2015), which covers this crucial stage in Steinitz's development towards his fullest mastery and includes lengthy analysis of the more famous of the two Anderssen wins, a positional masterpiece.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Blackburne should have won that event, which would have been his greatest tournament triumph.

But at the last he had a shock defeat against Schallop, and was pretty dejected for the playoff.

[John Townsend]

Craig, thank you for pointing that out about Vienna 1873. Regarding Anderssen's tournament successes against Steinitz, I was speaking from my recollection of having read somewhere a statement to that effect, but I can't now recall where I saw it. It must have been wrong, and I am happy to be corrected on that point.